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Transcript of interview with Arthur "Art" Lurie by Cheryle Bacot, April 25, 1986
Interview with Arthur "Art" Lurie by Cheryle Bacot on April 25, 1986. Lurie talks about his family and upbringing with Kenny Washington, who was the first African American to sign with the National Football League. Lurie discusses knowing everybody in Las Vegas in the 1950s, being in the service/retail sector and watching the city grow. He operated several businesses including grocery stores and the liquor department at Wonder World. He talks about his love of boxing, serving on the boxing commission, and advantages of living in southern Nevada.
Arthur C. Lurie lived in Las Vegas for 33 years at the time of this 1986 oral history. He and his wife Eleanor had relocated from Los Angeles area to help run his brother-in-law's food market. Over the years his career would include the grocery, bar (Art's Place) and restaurant businesses; including being co-owner of the liquor store at Wonder World. He shares memories of adjusting to the more laid back culture of small town Las Vegas and how he feels like a native after watching the city grow over the past decades. Art was a founding member of Temple Beth Sholom, where he served as an early vice-president. Being in the non-gaming sector provided gave him the opportunity to work with youth programs and he started the Golden Gloves gym in Las Vegas. He judged over 40 title fights and had a long career on the Nevada Boxing Commission. Arthur Lurie past away in 2014 at the age of 96.
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Members of the Voices community singing group attending a pool party in Las Vegas, Nevada. Seated: Roger Osgood, Jay Cribeir, Ron Guthrie; in the water, Dana Miller: photographic slide, 1983
Collection Name: Christie Young Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02
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Ken St. John posing with a camera at a pool party for members of the Voices community singing group in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic slide, 1983
Collection Name: Christie Young Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02
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Craig Williams-Gordon lying in the grass at a pool party for members of the Voices community singing group in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic slide, 1983
Collection Name: Christie Young Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02
Archival Component
Members of the Voices community singing group attending a pool party in Las Vegas, Nevada. Seated: Claude Courtney, Hal Mondt, foreground: Craig Williams-Gordon: photographic slide, 1983
Collection Name: Christie Young Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02
Archival Component
Joshua Abbey Papers
Collection is comprised primarily of files from approximately the early 1980s to 2017 detailing Joshua Abbey's theater and film career; his involvement with environmental efforts in Southern Nevada such as the Citizens Against Nuclear Waste in Nevada (CANWIN); and his involvement with the Jewish community in Las Vegas, including the Jewish Film Festival, the Jewish Federation, Temple Beth Sholom, and other organizations. The collection also includes information about the Jewish Community Center from the 1950s and a file on the film production of
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