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Photograph of Harold Hind, his wife, Betty Hind, and others, Las Vegas (Nev.), late 1940s
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Proposed Shopping Center, 1984 November 08; 1985 June 20
This set includes: preliminary sketches, exterior elevations, electrical plans, redlining, electrical schematics, utility plans, site plans, building sections, wall sections, grading plans and floor plans.
This set includes drawings for Flamingo Jones Partnership (client) and Jerry Dye (client) by Neil Rounds (engineer) and Montgomery Engineers of Nevada (engineer).
Collection Name: Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings
Box/Folder: Roll 349
Archival Component
Viola Johnson oral history interview
Oral history interview with Viola Johnson conducted by Claytee D. White on March 03, 1996 for the Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. Johnson discusses leaving Fordyce, Arkansas in 1942 to join her parents in Las Vegas, Nevada where her first home was a tent. Johnson goes on to discuss life with her parents in Las Vegas including their work and church activities. Johnson also describes her work at the Flamingo Hilton and Sands Hotel and Casino as a maid, and at the Riviera Hotel and Casino making sandwiches. Finally, Johnson talks about labor conditions and the Culinary Union during the early years of the Las Vegas Strip casino development.
Archival Collection
Artistic renditions of various views of Las Vegas, Nevada: postcards, image 004
Audio clip from interview with Hank Greenspun, 1975
In this clip, Hank Greenspun speaks with Perry Kaufman about arriving in Las Vegas in 1946, and his first encounter with Bugsy Siegel.
No release form is on file for this interview. The interview is accessible onsite only, and researchers must seek permission from the interviewee or heirs for quotation, reproduction, or publication. Please contact special.collections@unlv.edu for further information.
Sound