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Peter Bernhard oral history interview, 2024 August 13
Oral history interview with Peter Bernhard conducted by Claytee D. White and Stefani Evans on August 13, 2024 for the Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports project. In this interview, Bernhard recalls his Las Vegas childhood and school years, and playing both baseball and football. He remembers playing baseball at Circle Park before the City of Las Vegas Recreation Department began to organize a City municipal baseball league. They played at Squires Park, at Casino Center near 4th Street; then Cragin Park at Charleston and Hinson; Lyons Park at East Washington and Bruce Street (the first park with a home run fence), and Hadland Park at Eastern and Stewart. Bernhard also describes how the Donna Kutzen Youth Foundation (DKYF), promoted by Marty Kutzen to honor his deceased wife, facilitated team sports in Las Vegas. Bernhard talks about playing for the winning state football champions Western High School (1966-67), playing football and baseball at Harvard University, and how sports connected him to people like Harry Reid and Roy Woofter. Digital audio, transcript, and photographs available.
Collection Name: Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Bo Bernhard oral history interview, 2025 October 10
Oral history interview with Bo Bernhard on October 10, 2025 conducted by Claytee D. White for the Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports project. In this interview, Bernhard reminisces about growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1970s. First growing up on the East side, then West, Bernhard got to witness all the entertainment popping up across the valley. Involved in sports from an early age, Bernhard first joined a youth soccer team, The Burners, and later joined little league baseball. In high school, he played four years of both soccer and baseball at Bonanza High School, and continued to play while attending Harvard University. Sports continued to entwine themselves with Bernhard’s life, as he joined the MLB International Berlin Flamingos team after graduating. Bernhard returned to the United States and wrote his thesis about Las Vegas history. Now a professor at UNLV, he describes eventually meeting Raiders owner Mark Davis, which led to Bernhard helping write the proposal that brought the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas. Digital audio available; no transcript available.
Collection Name: Game On! The Oral History of Las Vegas Sports Interviews
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Photograph of Tonopah Army Air Base in Tonopah (Nev.), 1943
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Transcript of interview with Ida Bowser by Claytee D. White, August 30, 2007
Interview with Ida Bowser conducted by Claytee D. White on August 30, 2007. Born in Tallulah, Louisiana, Bowser came to Las Vegas as a child. Her first job after high school was as a teacher's aide. Later, she worked as a maid at the Sahara and Flamingo hotels. Disenchanted with maid's work, Bowser applied to the welfare office for on-the-job training and began working for the UNLV library, where she remained for thirty-seven years. Bowser recalls Ruby Duncan and the civil rights movement, notable individuals and places, and a discrimination lawsuit.
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1912 Model-T Ford that once belonged to Julius Gainer, who owned and operated the South Twin Mine in Nevada: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada).Gainer constructed a mill and ran 3,000 feet of mine tunnel on the property. He employed four men. Gainer modified the Model-T pickup shown here to haul ore down the South Twin Canyon. Al Bradshaw, a Tonopah resident, remembered riding up and down the canyon as a 10-year old child with Julius Gainer on the Model-T.
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Hank Richards with Ann Redelsperger and State Senator Ken Redelsperger at the dedication of the All-Purpose Building: photographic print
From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series I. Amargosa Valley, Nevada -- Subseries I.B. Records Family. From left, Hank Richards with Ann Redelsperger and State Senator Ken Redelsperger at the dedication of the All -Purpose Building, Amargosa Valley Nye County, Nevada, Nevada, November 2, 1984. Records was asked to be the Dedicator at the ceremony because he was the first to arrive in the valley and take advantage of the "Desert Entry Program", and with his brother Robert, he "knew what years people came".
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Sheldon, Connie Hill
Connie Hill Sheldon was born November 16, 1944 in Oklahoma and spent her early years in southern California before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 with her family. In Las Vegas, Sheldon and her siblings attended Sunrise Acres Elementary School before going to Rancho High School, and the family was active with Homesite Baptist Church. While she was at Rancho High, Sheldon worked at the Huntridge Theater, and she continued working there after she graduated. In 1968, Sheldon married fellow Rancho Class of 1962 classmate, Clyde, in Goldfield, Nevada.
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Laub, Mary M., 1924-
Mary Laub and husband William “Bill” Laub first came to Las Vegas in 1954, eventually establishing permanent residency with their five children four years later. Mary founded the Las Vegas Assistance League chapter in 1976, serving her community through this organization for decades after. Her concern for the viability of Assistance League led her to start a thrift store to finance organizational operations, as well as solicit donations from entities like the Reynolds Foundation and Andre Agassi Foundation.
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Landau, Ellis
Ellis Landau is a member of the board of trustees of the Nathan Adelson Hospice in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Boyd Gaming Corporation and served as a financial executive in the gaming and hospitality industries for more than thirty years. In 2006 Landau was honored as "Man of the Year" by Temple Beth Sholom in Las Vegas. He served as the temple's president from 2009 to 2010 and is a founder of its Warsaw Memorial Garden.
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