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Interview with Charles E. Violet, May 22, 2004
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Interview with Stuart C. Black, January 18, 2005
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Eric Brown (Washoe, County Manager) oral history interview conducted by Kelliann Beavers: transcript
From the Lincy Institute "Perspectives from the COVID-19 Pandemic" Oral History Project (MS-01178) -- Government agency interviews file.
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Minutes from Temple Beth Sholom Board of Directors meetings, July 1993 - December 1993
Meeting minutes include reports from committees of the board, correspondence, and balance sheets.
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Holocaust Education Conference program, 1997
Booklet program from the Holocaust Education Conference, 1997.
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Minutes from Temple Beth Sholom Board of Directors meetings, June 1987 - May 1988 (1 of 2)
Minutes from Temple Beth Sholom Board of Directors meetings, June 1987 - May 1988 (1 of 2)
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Louis Yoxen interview, 2003: transcript
Yoxen begins her interview by discussing how she first arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada to work for the U.S. State Department in the 1950s. She then describes her childhood in Alabama, competing in the Miss America pageant, and her life in Miami, Florida. Yoxen also discusses living in North Africa and Berlin, Germany while working for the State Department as a clerk. She then talks about moving around with her sister and her family, and eventually coming to Las Vegas. She describes what Las Vegas was like in the 1950s. Yoxen ends her interview with a discussion on her family, her husband's work, and their recreational activities.
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Transcript of interview with JoNell Thomas by Claytee White, January 12, 2010
JoNell Thomas grew up in a large Utah family, went to Utah State and law school at University of Utah. She moved to Nevada in 1992; first as with the Nevada Supreme Court and then as a staff attorney with a Las Vegas firm, and currently is an attorney with the Clark County Special Public Defender's office. She and her husband, Billy Logan and their twin daughters have lived in the John S. Park Neighborhood since 2001. Their residence was constructed in 1956 on a large corner lot with lots of trees and a fifty-year-old swimming pool. JoNell offers her observations on a variety of JSP events: Stratosphere's failed rollercoaster across the Strip idea; the proposed high-rise complexes; the Monorail lack of convenience to locals; effects of dropping home prices and downturn of economy; the homeless population and closing of Circle Park. She helped create the early online community called the Downtown Neighbors website which provided information regarding , part activist, part pra
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