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Snyder, Joy
Joy Snyder was born and raised in Pennsylvania. Snyder attended Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978 and found work at Desert Springs Hospital. 1n 1979, she began work at Sunrise Hospital. Snyder retired in 2000.
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Riceberg, Janis
Janis Riceberg moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1974 while attending Long Beach State University. She worked as a special education teacher for the Clark County School District for twenty years and began teaching at the College of Southern Nevada in 2003.
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Transcript of interview with Freddie Glusman by Barbara Tabach, October 29, 2015
In this interview Glusman discusses his early memories of being raised in Vancouver, Canada and how he ended up in Las Vegas. He reflects on how he first got his start in the town and his early dealings with casinos and their owners while he was working as a carpet and drapery salesman and while working for Fabulous Magazine. Glusman explains how he started his restaurant and tells about the people he encountered while doing this that where significant to both the Jewish community and Las Vegas as a whole. He recounts stories that include such people as Meyer Lansky, Al Sachs, and Moe Dalitz.
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Brochure for building fund for Congregation Ner Tamid, early 1980s
This fundraising brochure for the building campaign for Congregation Ner Tamid includes pledge amounts for specific parts of the building, and a proposed floor plan.
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Sylvia Alvarado interview, April 12, 2019: transcript
Interviewed by Rodrigo Vazquez, Monserrath Hernández, and Barbara Tabach. Sylvia Alvarado talks about growing up in North Las Vegas and her Catholic upbringing in a Mexican household. Her studies in Journalism & Media Studies led her to her career as a radio host on English and Spanish-speaking programs. She also talks about speaking "pocha" Spanish and the Latinx influence in radio programming.
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