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Kim, Sook-ja, 1941-
Sook-ja Kim was a Korean-American singer who performed in many Las Vegas, Nevada hotels and casinos. Sook-ja was a member of the musical group named The Kim Sisters that began performing for American soldiers in the Korean War. In 1959, Sook-ja was invited to perform at the Thunderbird Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and continued to play in various hotels and casinos until she retired from performing in 1989. As of 2019, Sook-ja Kim Bonifazio works as a real estate agent in Las Vegas.
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Canarelli, Larry (Lawrence D.)
Lawrence Canarelli was born in Roseburg, Oregon shortly after World War II. His family had no money and lived in a tent on the Umpqua River, foraging and living day-to-day. After their tent and everything they owned burned down, Canarelli’s family moved to various logging camps through Oregon and California. His father quit his job and unexpectedly left the family, leaving the 21-year old mother no choice but to put Canarelli and his three siblings in a Pentecostal orphanage.
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Gore, Robert
Robert Gore first came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1973 as a public affairs officer with the Air Force. He returned to West Virginia to go into the family business in 1976 and four years later was offered a job with Summa Corporation. Back in Las Vegas, he also served as director of the Air Force Association. At a dinner meeting of the Association, Retired General Bill Becker suggested that an engineering school was needed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
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Newsom, Donna
Donna Newsom was born November 06, 1932 and spent her childhood in Georgia and Florida. Her family moved many times, following her father’s work opportunities. Newsom had a close relationship with her father and the two had many adventures together.
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Transcript of interview with Adele Baratz by Claytee D. White, March 19, 2007
Interview with Adele Baratz by Claytee White on March 19, 2007. In this interview, Baratz talks about her parents who came to the United States as teenagers from Russia and eventually settled in Las Vegas after a short time in California. She discusses the Jewish community in Las Vegas when she was growing up, and her father's job selling bootlegging supplies, then as a real estate broker, then as a bar owner. Baratz attended the Fifth Street Grammar School, which was built after a fire destroyed the original school, and Las Vegas High School. As a teenager, she worked at Nellis as a messenger and in the rations department, then went to nursing school in Baltimore at Sinai Hospital. She talks about her father's bar, "Al's Bar," that was popular with Union Pacific Railroad workers, and how the bar was forced out for the building of the Golden Nugget. Baratz recounts where her family lived, the growth of the Jewish community, and building the first synagogue on Carson Street.
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Letter and envelope from Martin A. Bunker St. George, Utah. to John M. Bunker, St. Thomas, Nevada
From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, an envelope, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached. Letter and original title say "M.A. Bunker", but there is correspondence with other letters and folder titles "M.A". Bunker may be "Martin A. Bunker".
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