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Brooks, Robert Lee, 1907-1995
Robert Lee "Bob" Brooks, who owned the Seven Seas popular Polynesian nightspot in Hollywood, California, built the Nevada Biltmore at the corner of Main Street and Bonanza Road in Las Vegas, Nevada. It opened on June 22, 1942 to much acclaim and attracted top names in entertainment. It consisted of a hotel, casino, and 32 detached bungalows. Brooks recreated his Seven Seas nightclub at the resort. He sold the Biltmore in 1944 and the property then changed hands several times. It reopened briefly as a resort for African Americans in 1949.
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Gray, Lawrence, 1898-1970
Lawrence Gray was a silent film and vaudeville actor active between 1925 and 1936. Born on July 28, 1898 in San Francisco, California, Gray performed and starred in silent films including the Marshall Neilan-directed and produced Everybody's Acting (1926), a film later acquired by Howard Hughes. In 1935, Gray married actress Louise Figueroa, and spent his later life coordinating the American and Mexican film industries.
Gray died on February 02, 1970 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Hell's Angels, approximately 1922 to 1965
The Hell’s Angels sub-series (1922-1965) contains material related to the development, production, and post-production of The Caddo Company film, Hell’s Angels. Both the silent and sound versions of the film are represented in the materials.
Materials include contracts and lawsuits, correspondence, financial, story development, and production and direction records, editing and special effects, aviation logs, and advertising, as well as musical scores for the silent version composed by Adolph Tandler and the sound version composed by Hugo Riesenfeld. Also included are black-and-white photographic prints and negatives and twenty-four miniature airplane models.
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: N/A
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Transcript of interview with Edwina E. Danzienger by Leanne Terry, February 26 & 29, 1980
On February 26 and 29 of 1980, Leanne Terry interviewed Edwina E. Danzinger (born 1925 in Houston, Texas) about her life in Southern Nevada. Danzinger first talks about her family, specifically her siblings, children, and grandchildren. She also talks about church membership, early housing in Nevada, her husband’s work on the Nevada Test Site, and her family’s hunting practices. Danzinger then describes her involvement in Boy Scouts and hiking, her various positions of employment at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, how the college campus has changed over time, and how the college students have changed over the years. The two also talk about the changes in the crime rate, the atomic testing, air pollution, and the changes made to the university by the Buckley Amendment.
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First Security Bank of Utah, Roy Branch, 1965 July 13
Collection Name: Alton Dean Jensen Architectural Records
Box/Folder: Roll 084
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