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American Hospital Ship, event, menu, December 17, 1899, Carlton Hotel

Date

1899-12-17

Archival Collection

Description

Note: Emblem inscription: American hospital ship -- Maine -- South Africa Restaurant: Carlton Hotel (London, England) Location: London, England

Text

Soccer players from two of the sixteen teams comprising the Hispanic Soccer League compete, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1983 to 1986

Description

Shown here are players from two of the sixteen teams comprising the Hispanic Soccer League. The teams play each Sunday during a six month season. Teams are make up of Hispanics from Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, South America, and native Las Vegas. The games have become a family affair and each Sunday you can find families with their picnic baskets out watching their favorites and socializing.

Image

Lorraine Longhi oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03892

Abstract

Oral history interview with Lorraine Longhi conducted by Stefani Evans on March 31, 2023 for the Reflections: the Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Longhi recalls growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada through eigth grade until she moved to Arizona. After graduating from high school and Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Longhi worked for the Arizona Republic newspaper, where she covered education and city government. Longhi identifes as mixed race and speaks of a Las Vegas childhood punctuated with annual visits to her father's family in Yonkers, New York, and her mother's Taiwanese family in Taipei. In this interview, she discusses favorite Taiwanese and Italian foods she remembers from her childhood, and memories of cultural festivals at Chinatown Plaza. She also recalls first experiencing questions about her personal identity in Arizona, remarking in retrospect on the diversity of her childhood in Las Vegas. Longhi returned to Las Vegas in March 2022 to begin work as assistant city editor at the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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