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Cinnamon Hill, 2004
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Connie Hill Sheldon oral history interview
Oral history interview with Connie Hill Sheldon conducted by Claytee D. White on February 11, 2013 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Sheldon talks about military life in New York City, New York, her driving a school bus in Havelock, North Carolina, being a preschool teacher in Mission Viejo, California, and her jobs at the Huntridge Theater, the Nevada Test Site, and at Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company, Inc.
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Top of Fortification Hill: photographic print
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Photograph of Sugar Hill, circa 1964
Black and white photograph of the exterior of Sugar Hill, featuring signs advertising cocktails, gambling, and two bands, circa 1964. Bob Bailey opened Sugar Hill in West Las Vegas in 1964, drawing such celebrities as Johnny Carson and Louis Armstrong.
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R08 Hill - Top of Hill - Test Holes, Flintkote Company, 1983
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Architectural and landscape renderings for various Summerlin housing communities including Eagle Hills, Tournament Hills, and Hills Park, approximately 1990 to 1999
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Lawrence Chiu Hill oral history interview: transcript
Oral history interview with Lawrence Chiu Hill oral history interview conducted by Cecilia Winchell, Nessa Concepcion, and Stefani Evans on November 8, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Lawrence "Larry" Chiu Hill shares his experiences growing up in Taiwan and immigrating with his family to South America, then moving to Corpus Christi, Texas, and finally Las Vegas, Nevada. He discusses his education at University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a Political Science graduate and his career path moving from casino gaming into the practice of law. Lawrence manages his own firm, Lawrence C. Hill and Associates, and talks about his work, his family, and the community he has created in over two decades of living in Las Vegas.
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Transcript of interview with Dan Hill by John Bennett, March 1, 1979
On March 1, 1979, John L. Bennett interviewed Dan Hill (born May 20, 1914 in Illinois) in his home at 2130 Walnut Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, about his memory of Southern Nevada. In addition to the collector and informant, there is an unidentified woman present during the interview. Hill explains that he originally came to Nevada in search of work. He briefly moved to Europe during the First World War where he served in the Army; at the end of the war, Hill returns to Las Vegas to work at the Nevada Test Site. Hill then goes in-depth about his experience as a worker at the Nevada Test Site and different mining sites that he had also worked at. The two briefly discuss the different sheriffs that had been in charge of Las Vegas, and how many people came to Las Vegas to work at the Henderson Magnesium Plant and Hoover Dam in addition to the Nevada Test Site.
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Buddy Hill recording, 1994 May 01
Hill describes the Schillinger System of Musical Composition, different music composers and what types of methods they used to create their own music.
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