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Audio clip from interview with Doug Unger, August 26, 2014

Date
2014-08-26
Description

Part of an interview with Doug Unger on August 26, 2014. In this interview, Unger discusses how he acquired Supreme Mattress, a local mattress company that supplied mattresses to Strip casinos.

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Audio clip from interview with Myra Berkovits, August 21, 2014

Date
2014-08-21
Description

Part of an interview with Myra Berkovits on August 21, 2014. In this clip, Berkovits talks about her first home in Las Vegas, and a very helpful neighbor who helped her find employment as a teacher.

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Audio clip from interview with Dorothy Eisenberg, October 23, 2014

Date
2014-10-23
Description

Part of an interview with Dorothy Eisenberg on October 23, 2014. In this clip, Eisenberg discusses how she became involved with the Democratic party and the League of Women Voters in Las Vegas.

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Audio clip from interview with Jerry Fox, November 12, 2014

Date
2014-11-12
Description

Part of an interview with Jerry Fox on November 12, 2014. In this clip, Fox talks about arriving in Las Vegas in 1955, and how his father came to own a delicatessen on the Las Vegas strip.

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Audio clip from interview with Rabbi Shea Harlig, March 5, 2014

Date
2014-03-05
Description

Part of an interview with Rabbi Shea Harlig on March 5, 2014. In this clip, Rabbi Harlig discusses the property where he established a Chabad center in the west valley, and the zoning issues he faced in the neighborhood.

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Audio clip from interview with Margo Mink Colbert, November 11, 2014

Date
2014-11-11
Description

Part of an interview with Margo Mink Colbert on November 11, 2014. In this clip, Colbert discusses the inspiration for the ballet trilogy she conceived and choreographed while teaching at UNLV.

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Audio clip from interview with Jerome "Jerry" Countess, October 28, 2014

Date
2014-10-28
Description

Part of an interview with Jerrry Countess and Dorothy Eisenberg on October 28, 2014. In this clip, Countess talks about the early days of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas and an event held by B'nai B'rith.

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Audio clip from interview with Irwin Molasky, April 23, 2014

Date
2014-04-23
Description

Part of an interview with Irwin Molasky, April 23, 2014. In this clip, Molasky describes constructing his first property in Las Vegas: a motel called the Pyramids on the Las Vegas Strip. He then talks about the sanitation district as the reason that the city could not annex the county into its borders, and the related issues of a growing city.

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Audio clip from interview with Elliot Karp, December 17, 2014

Date
2014-12-17
Description

Part of an interview with Elliot Karp on December 17, 2014. In this clip, Karp talks about his vision of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas as a tent under which all Jewish people can find a place to thrive.

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Audio clip from interview with Mimi Katz, December 10, 2014

Date
2014-12-10
Description

Part of an interview with Mimi Katz on December 10, 2014. In this clip, Katz talks about living in Las Vegas, and tells an anecdote about her mother traveling with kosher meat when she came to visit.

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