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Copa Girls performing onstage at the Sands Hotel in April of 1963. In cartouche from left to right, Charlotte Nort, Rowena Buttenweiser, Barbara. Seated from left to right, unidentified woman, unidentified woman, Marlene, Jane and Joan Ryba (the Ryba Twins), Jackie Lee, Diane Marlow (Diane Holladay), unidentified woman, Lee Temple.
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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Frank Sinatra (right) and Jack Entratter with Copa Girls at a rehearsal of "Ziegfeld Follies" in the Copa Room of the Sands Hotel in June 1954.
Show Name: Ziegfeld Follies
Site Name: Sands Hotel and Casino
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From the Women's Research Institute of Nevada:
"The Las Vegas Women Oral History Project (LVWOHP) evolved from a collaboration to build a collection of sources on women’s lives in Las Vegas. At the time it began (circa 1994), a critical shortage of information on women’s lives existed in traditional repositories and few oral history projects collected the narratives of women. By 2009, other efforts have taken hold to include women in southern Nevada’s history.
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