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Oral history interview with Tina Kwan conducted by Cecilia Winchell, Stefani Evans, and Jerwin Tiu on March 19, 2022 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project.

In this interview, Tina Kwan memorializes her late sister, Wendy Kwan, sharing stories of Wendy's life and experiences as the oldest child of first generation immigrant parents. Wendy helped complete her family's paperwork to open a restaurant at the age of 13, worked at the restaurant on weekends, and babysat Tina throughout the week. Tina shares Wendy's aspirations to become a fashion designer and the circumstances that led to Wendy's death. Tina also discusses how her sister's death impacted their family and her own life journey, her grieving process, and some of her favorite memories with Wendy.

Oral history interview with Limmie Monroe, LuChana Turner, Francesca Monroe-Dixon, and Patricia Turner conducted by Claytee D. White on August 5, 2025 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, three generations of the Monroe family discuss living and growing up in the Westside of Las Vegas, Nevada. They take turns describing the businesses on Jackson Street, federal housing developments in the 1950s, later moving to Casper Park II where the matriarch, Limmie Monroe, still lives as of 2025. Limmie's daughters, Francesca Monroe-Dixon and Patricia Monroe Turner, adulthood in the 1970s and remembers some of the businesses on Jackson Avenue in the 1960s and 1970s. The granddaughter, LuChana Turner, talks about working in Starlight Record and Tape store. Together they remember some of the people who served as community leaders on the Westside.