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Interview with Susan Greenspun Fine by Cecillia Boland on February 18, 1976. In this interview, Fine talks about growing up in Las Vegas and her schooling. The interview is geared towards the growth of Las Vegas from her childhood to her adulthood, including roads, air travel and medical facilities. She is the daughter of Hank and Barbara Greenspun, owners of the Las Vegas Sun newspaper, and discusses being involved in all the happenings around town because of that.

Born on August 22, 1935, Harriet spent her childhood years in the segregated southern cities of St. Petersburg, Florida and Mobile, Alabama. Daughter to a blue collar plumber, who was also a union organizer and ‘rabid Democrat,’ Harriet recalls her father saying, “Remember children, you know what meat tastes like because there’s a man named Franklin Roosevelt.” Unsurprisingly, she grew up thinking Roosevelt was God. With her mother’s sudden death at age thirty-one from a cerebral hemorrhage, ten year old Harriet spent two years at a boarding school before rejoining her younger brother at her maternal grandparents in St. Petersburg. Florida. During this time, her father also based out of the grandparents’ home while following big construction work opportunities at various cities. In 1948, sixteen-year-old Harriet accompanied her father, an Alabama Delegate, to the Democratic National Convention. Hearing Hubert Humphrey’s Civil Rights speech change her life. “I came home from that conve

From left to right: an unidentified woman, Grace Hayes, and Bess Rosenberg at a Christmas event in Las Vegas, Nevada. Handwritten description provided on back of image: "Xmas at Las Vegas 1965. Big Bess - Grace Hayes - do not know name of other lady but connected with Variety Club. They "all" work like beavers for handicapped children. Wonderful organization Variety Club. I never saw women work this hard - big job too much book keeping and begging for help, at times demanding more or less - they have no fear, for its all for the love of God, charity - Kay "Pop" (sp?) Keep these pictures please."

Lillian Kronberg is at right.

Group of photographs of Joyce Mack with her family on vacation.