Jillian Hrushowy arrived in Las Vegas in 1959 as part of a company hired to appear at the El Rancho Vegas Hotel in a production called La Nouvelle Eve. She has remained here (other than three short-term contracts in Reno, Nevada) until present day. She is now the production manager for Legends in Concert at the Imperial Palace Hotel. She was an only child, born in Rhodesia to English parents and raised in a home with servants and tutors. Her mother exposed her to the arts at an early age. Jillian took dancing lessons from the age of three years until she began dancing professionally. When she was fifteen years old, both parents agreed it was time for her to leave Rhodesia and finish her education in England. Living alone was difficult and lonely, but it afforded her a wealth of opportunities otherwise unavailable. She worked as a dancer in small, local productions while still in high school. When only eighteen, she got a job dancing in La Nouvelle Eve in Paris which eventually came to Las Vegas. This interview focuses on the years from Jillian’s arrival in 1959 until she retired from dancing in 1979. It follows her transitions from dancer, to principal dancer to production manager. [The first twenty minutes of the tape is warped and the text is garbled. The transcriber has lightly edited the transcript.]

Three people resting in the courtyard of the Last Frontier Village at the Hotel Last Frontier. The "Gay Nineties" Bar, Club "21," and the Ramona Room are seen in the background.
Site Name: Frontier
Address: 3120 Las Vegas Boulevard South

Discussion of the connecting of a new subdivision to company water. The developers would pay to run the line from the main to the subdivision.

View of a suite at the Frontier Hotel. Handwritten text on photo sleeve: "Suite, Frontier Hotel. Woman possibly is Doris Day." Stamp on back of photo: "Allen photographers."
Site Name: Frontier
Address: 3120 Las Vegas Boulevard South