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Fold-out booklet of Las Vegas Hotels and Casinos: postcards, image 012

Description

Part of a postcard booklet depicting the Frontier Hotel, a performance at the Stardust Hotel, and Caesar's Palace.

Nympha Comacchio oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03852

Abstract

Oral history with Nympha Comacchio conducted by Cecilia Winchell and Stefani Evans on May 09, 2022 for the Reflections: the Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. In this interview, Comacchio recalls her childhood in the Philippines and growing up in a large family. After attending elementary school, Comacchio immediately went to work on her father's lumber farm, performing manual labor until she was seventeen. Later, she recalls finding employment as a seamstress in Manila, where she met her first husband when she left to work in Saudi Arabia for better pay. Comacchio describes how she was able to receive a student visa to finally immigrate to the United States, where she first arrived in California. Eventually, after meeting her second husband and hearing about housing prices in Las Vegas, Nevada, they purchased a house in the city in 2000. After briefly working for the New Frontier, Comacchio began working for the Wynn and Encore, where she found out about the Culinary Workers Union and became more active in that organization. Throughout the rest of the interview, Comacchio touches on the responsibilities of being a housekeeper, the current challenges they face, and how she feels about the growing AAPI population in southern Nevada.

Archival Collection

Bob Stoldal Collection of Nevada Menus

Identifier

MS-01093

Abstract

The Bob Stoldal Collection of Nevada Menus (1930-2000) contains the personal menu collection of Bob Stoldal. The materials include menus and placemats from various hotels, casinos, and restaurants throughout Nevada. This collection also contains digital scans of the menu covers.

Archival Collection

Welcome Home Celebration, image 001 of 002: photographic print

Date

1993-10-27

Description

Celebration to welcome astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen after the first flight of the Shuttle Columbia. On the Frontier sign reads, "The People of Nevada Welcome Astronauts John Young, Bob Crippen, comander and pilot of Columbia, the gem of that vast ocean we call space. Astronauts dinner 8 P.M. Americana Room". Stamped on the back of the photograph, "Las Vegas News Bureau."

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Pom Fritz oral history interview: transcript

Date

2021-06-08

Archival Collection

Description

Oral history interview with Pom Fritz conducted by Kristel Peralta and Stefani Evans on June 8, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Pom talks about her family and upbringing in Udon Thani, Thailand and her immigration to the United States with her second husband, an American citizen, in 1972. She discusses living on Air Force bases in North Carolina and California before moving to Las Vegas and finding work at different hotels. Pom shares her experiences as a member, steward, and executive board representative of the Culinary Workers Union and what she recalls from the Frontier Strike. She also talks about her children and grandchildren, some of whom still live in Thailand.

Text

Brown, Hugh, Mrs.

Author of "A Lady in Boomtown: Miners and Manners on the Nevada Frontier" (see snv002483 - pdf). Published in other formats (http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Boomtown-Miners-Manners-Frontier/dp/B000NZ2WVC).

Person

Fold-out booklet of Las Vegas Hotels and Casinos: postcards, image 004

Description

Part of a postcard booklet depicting the Hotel Thunderbird, a stage performance on the Strip and the entrance to the Last Frontier Village.