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Stardust Hotel Lido show, 35mm master negatives (13 segments): video

Date

1970-04-28

Description

Topless showgirls in full costume pose, one at a time, in Lido costume and headdress. They gesture, sometimes moving their arms and costumes, while smiling or staring into the camera. They are wearing pink, red, green, orange, yellow, and blue feathered headpieces and boas. They all have jeweled bikini bottoms and necklaces. One segment shows footage of Paris scenes that was used in and to promote the show. Title cards with information about the show appear infront of neon signs. Another segment shows all the showgirls together, posing to show only their feathered costumes, before revealing a posed showgirl. The final clip includes show credits superimposed over the posing showgirls. There is no audio for any of these clips. Original media 35mm, color, aspect ratio 4 x 3, frame size 2048 x 1556. From the Stardust Resort and Casino Records (MS-00515) -- Photographs and audiovisual material -- Digitized audiovisual material file.

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Photograph of Harold Minsky and showgirls, Chicago (Ill.), 1970-1979

Date

1970 to 1979

Description

Harold Minsky poses with six showgirls at the Playboy Hotel. The dancers are wearing rhinestone bikini-style costumes and large feathered headdresses. The Knickerbocker has gone through several incarnations since it opened in 1927. Legend has it that in the 1930s the hotel housed a casino frequented by Al Capone. During World War II and the Korean War, US Armed Forces officers would fill the property's hallways and play cards in the Officer's Club. In 1952, Richard Nixon was nominated Vice President during the Republican National Convention held in the hotel. Finally, in the 1970s it became the Playboy Hotel, owned by Hugh Hefner. Site Name: Playboy Hotel (Chicago, Ill.) Street Address: 163 East Walton Place

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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Theta Omega Chapter program committee reports

Date

2005-01
2005-03
2005-06
2005-07-19
2005-09
2005-11
2005-12

Description

From the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Records (MS-01014) -- Chapter records file.

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Stephen Round oral history interview: transcript

Date

2017-10-25

Description

Oral history interview with Stephen Round conducted by Claytee D. White on October 25, 2017 for the Remembering 1 October Oral History Project. In this interview, Stephen A. Round, a career military contractor, describes his experiences during the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. Round mentions moving to Las Vegas in 2013 and in later years staying at the Aria on the evening of October 1. He describes the chaos of the shooting and the 12-hour-plus lockdown at the Aria hotel and casino. The day after the shooting, Round built a memorial around the shooting site and protected it. Once the memorabilia of that first site was taken to the Clark County Museum, he moved to protect the second memorial at the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign where crosses devoted to the victims had been placed. Along with his preservation of the memorials, Round describes his preparation of a book that was signed by many who visited the sites. Round explains that he was able to see some of the best and worst of humanity during those days of watching and caring for the memorial sites as well as helping any victims, families of the victims, and sympathizers of the Las Vegas 2017 shooting.

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