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Photograph of first Temple Beth Sholom site at 1229 Carson Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 25, 2016

Date

2016-02-25

Description

New Life Christian Center occupies the original Temple Beth Sholom building at 1229 Carson Street. The building was the first synagogue in Las Vegas and was also home to the first Jewish Community Center.

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Photograph of first Temple Beth Sholom site at 1229 Carson Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 25, 2016

Date

2016-02-25

Description

New Life Christian Center occupies the original Temple Beth Sholom building at 1229 Carson Street. The building was the first synagogue in Las Vegas and was also home to the first Jewish Community Center.

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Photograph of Robert D. "Bob" Fisher, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 15, 2016

Date

2016-05-15

Description

Longtime Las Vegas broadcaster Robert D. "Bob" Fisher works during the taping of his weekly radio show "America's Diabetes Hour" broadcast from the Beasley Group's 2920 S Durango Drive location on KDWN AM 720. Fisher came to Las Vegas in 1992 to become the founding president and CEO of the Nevada Broadcasters Association (NVBA). He held that position for 22 years.

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Photograph of Robert D. "Bob" Fisher, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 15, 2016

Date

2016-05-15

Description

Longtime Las Vegas broadcaster Robert D. "Bob" Fisher works during the taping of his weekly radio show "America's Diabetes Hour" broadcast from the Beasley Group's 2920 S Durango Drive location on KDWN AM 720. Fisher came to Las Vegas in 1992 to become the founding president and CEO of the Nevada Broadcasters Association (NVBA). He held that position for 22 years.

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Photograph of Robert D. "Bob" Fisher, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 15, 2016

Date

2016-05-15

Description

Longtime Las Vegas broadcaster Robert D. "Bob" Fisher works during the taping of his weekly radio show "America's Diabetes Hour" broadcast from the Beasley Group's 2920 S Durango Drive location on KDWN AM 720. Fisher came to Las Vegas in 1992 to become the founding president and CEO of the Nevada Broadcasters Association (NVBA). He held that position for 22 years.

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Photograph of Raymonde Fiol, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 17, 2016

Date

2016-05-17

Description

Raymonde "Ray" Fiol at her Summerlin neighborhood home. A Jewish Holocaust survivor whose parents were killed in Auschwitz, Fiol was hidden by a Christian family of resistance fighters during her childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, France. She married an American service member, Phil Fiol, in 1957. Upon retirement, the couple moved to Las Vegas around 2003 and Raymonde became active in the local Holocaust Survivors Group.

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Photograph of Names etched in stone at the Congregation Ner Tamid Palm Mortuary / King David Memorial Garden, Henderson, Nevada, May 24, 2016

Date

2016-05-24

Description

Names etched in stone adorn the Palm Mortuary / King David Memorial Garden at Congregation Ner Tamid on the Greenspun Campus for Jewish Life, Learning & Spiritual Renewal.

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Photograph of Emerson Avenue front doors in the Joyce & Jerome Mack Sanctuary of Congregation Ner Tamid, Henderson, Nevada, May 24, 2016

Date

2016-05-24

Description

The Emerson Avenue front doors were saved from the previous location, refurbished, and installed in Congregation Ner Tamid's Joyce & Jerome Mack Sanctuary on the Greenspun Campus for Jewish Life, Learning & Spiritual Renewal.

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Saharan Magazine from the Sahara Hotel and Casino, July 1966

Date

1966-07

Description

An issue of the Saharan Magazine from the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Some of the headlines in the magazine include: "Liberace Heads Show with Special Appearance of "Day of Decision" Artist", "Sahara Maestro Louis Basil Tells All (about work with Super Stars)", "Sahara news in pictures", "Crowds Hail Opening of $3 Million Sahara-Tahoe Theatre, largest in U.S.", and "We Get Visitors!"

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Transcript of interview with Irving Kirshbaum by Cheryl Rogers, February 23, 1979

Date

1979-02-23

Description

Interview with Irving Kirshbaum by Cheryl Rogers on February 23, 1979. In this interview, Kirshbaum discusses the Riviera Hotel where he began working in 1955. He also talks about the landscape of the Las Vegas Strip in the 1950s, and the state of gambling, comps, customer service, and dealer training. The interviewer asks about the treatment of minorities at the Riviera, and in Las Vegas generally, and the effect of corporate ownership on casinos.

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