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Costume design drawing, performer in a gray jacket, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980
Costume Details: Male performer wearing a gray jacket over a purple vest and white trousers with white shoes.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Love Songs
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Costume design drawing, showgirl in pink and green polka dots, Las Vegas, June 5, 1980
Costume Details: Showgirl wearing a white mini skirt, pink and green polka dot long sleeve top, ankle length white socks, green and pink shoes, white neck scarf, and pink hair bow.
Show Name: Jubilee!
Performance Name: Minstrel opening: Elvis
Site Name: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino
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Mezzanine Master Plan, Fremont Hotel: architectural drawing
From the Martin Stern Architectural Records (MS-00382). Written on the image: "Martin Stern Jr., A.I.A. Architect & Associates. Berton Charles Severson. Brian Walter Webb. Mas Tokubo. Fred Anderson. Joel Bergman. Bruce Koerner. 9348 Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California (213)-273-0215/878-5220. Mezzanine Master Plan. Fremont Hotel and Casino Las Vegas, Nevada. Scale 1/16"=1'0". Date 3-27-81. Sheet Number 3".
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Paulette Canty oral history interview
Oral history interview with Paulette Canty conducted by Claytee White on July 02, 1998 for the Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. Canty opens her interview by discussing her life in Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1960s. Canty talks about being one of the first students to be integrated in the Las Vegas school system. She discusses how the Clark County School District prepared African American and white students for integration. She describes how integration was positive for herself, but that it was a negative experience for her sister and other African American students. Canty also talks about how African American children were raised at the time, discussing the values instilled in boys versus girls. She also talks about her experience working in the gaming industry including as a manager at Bally's Hotel and Casino. She discusses the treatment of African American employees by the gaming industry and labor unions.
Archival Collection
Faye Todd oral history interview
Oral history interview with Faye Todd conducted by Claytee D. White on October 15, 1996 for the Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. Todd discusses her life in Las Vegas, Nevada starting in 1964 when she moved there with her husband. Todd details the variety of discrimination and racism she experienced while living in Las Vegas from service refusals to discriminatory hiring practices in hotels. Todd also discusses her career path, from taking adult education classes at Rancho High School to gain clerk skills, to eventually becoming Entertainment Director and Corporate Executive Assistant at the Landmark Hotel and Casino in 1976. Todd also discusses the challenges her husband faced as an African American chef. Finally, Todd also discusses class relations within the black communities of both Las Vegas and San Antonio, Texas, where she was born.
Archival Collection
Fun One Bowling League Records
The Fun One Bowling League Records (1987-1997) contain league schedules, membership documents, standing sheets, and other organizational records from the Fun One bowling league, an LGBTQ bowling league that was established in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1985. Fun One was the Las Vegas LGTBQ community's second bowling league.
Archival Collection
Edwin Silberstang Papers
The Edwin Silberstang Papers (1963-2007) contain rough draft manuscripts, publicity, outlines, and galley notes for a number of the books that were authored by Silberstang. Also included are publisher agreements and correspondence, photographs of Silberstang, book covers, and newspaper clippings. Many of the books that Silberstang wrote were about gaming.
Archival Collection
Hamed Ahmady oral history interview: transcript
Oral history interview with Hamed Ahmady conducted by Stefani Evans on March 22, 2023 for the Reflections: the Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Interviewed by Stefani Evans. Culinary Union Local 226 organizer Hamed Ahmady recalls his childhood as the oldest of six children in Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan. As an child, he remembers hearing about the September 11, 2001 attack in New York while living in a Taliban-controlled city on a television connected to a concealed antenna that received signals from Uzbekistan. He recalls how, one month after he graduated high school, he became an translator for the U.S. Army, which he did for more than four years. He talks about securing his Special Immigrant Visa (SIV); landing in Los Angeles, California in 2013 and moving his family to the United States; and supporting his siblings and parents in Afghanistan. He also discusses relocating his family from California to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2018, finding a mosque community, and working with Culinary Union Local 226.
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Photograph of Liberace and other guests at the Desert Inn's first anniversary party, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 1951
Liberace (standing in back corner) with other guests at a buffet table at the Desert Inn's first anniversary party in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tommy "Black Jack"McGinty is seen third from the left, and Toni Clark is seen directly in front of Liberace.
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Photograph of Liberace, Tommy and Helen McGinty and guests at the Desert Inn's first anniversary party, Desert Inn, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 1951
Tommy and Helen McGinty (third and fourth from left), Liberace (back-center), Toni Clark (in front of Liberace) and unidentified guests at a buffet able at the Desert Inn's first anniversary party in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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