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Andre King oral history interview: transcript
Oral history interview with Andre "Brother Dre" King conducted by Claytee D. White on July 20, 2018 for the Remembering 1 October Oral History Project. In this interview, King recalls learning judo and wrestling at an early age. After spending ten years in prison for a burglary offense, he served an additional eleven years in facilities across the state. After twenty-one years in the system, King is now a nondenominational spiritual being and once he learned about the Healing Garden for 1 October victims, he went there daily, during and immediately after the construction. King has helped many survivors and has healed himself as well, through giving love, hugs, and spiritual inspiration.
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Elsa Lopez-Martinez oral history interview
Oral history interview with Elsa Lopez-Martinez conducted by Barbara Tabach on June 21, 2021 for Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project.
Elsa, one of the original student interviewers for the Latinx Voices project, talks about her family, her Mexican-American roots, and her experience learning Spanish and English. She discusses her education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and her work as an interviewer with Latinx Voices before her graduation. Elsa also shares what it has been like entering the workforce as an elementary school teacher during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ruth Fyfe, K. Oscar Knudson, and Fern Olive oral history interview
Oral history interview with Ruth Fyfe, K. Oscar Knudson, and Fern Olive oral conducted by Susan Kendall on March 22, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. The three interviewees discuss their early experiences teaching in Las Vegas, Nevada elementary schools beginning between 1924 and 1926. Topics the interviewees discuss include interstate school sports events, physical education for girls, sports for girls, teacher shortages, and school overcrowding. They also discuss illegal gambling in Las Vegas, Nevada prior to 1931, as well as Fremont Street casino and bar development in relation to the Las Vegas Grammar School (currently known as the Historic Fifth Street School) and the Las Vegas High School (currently known as Las Vegas Academy of the Arts) after Nevada legalized gambling.
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Epilogue: UNLV Yearbook, 1977
Yearbook main highlights: schools and departments; detailed lists with names and headshots of faculty, administration and students; variety of photos from activities, festivals, campus life, and buildings; campus organizations such as sororities, fraternities and councils; beauty contest winners; college sports and featured athletes; and printed advertisements of local businesses; Institution name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Audio recording clip of interview with Mary Louise Williams by Claytee D. White, June 19, 1998
Part of an interview with Mary Louise Williams conducted by Claytee D. White on June 19, 1998. Williams recalls working as a showgirl at the Moulin Rouge and traces her subsequent careers as a social worker and school teacher.
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Photographs of The Library Gentlemen's Club, Las Vegas (Nev.), March 27, 2017
Site address: 3785 Boulder Hwy
Sign owner: K C Investco LLC
Sign details: 0.90 acre lot, original construction year was 1982. Property was shut down temporarily, but reopened in May 2017.
Sign condition: 4 - looks in fine condition
Sign form: Back to Back Pole Sign
Sign-specific description: Double sided pole sign with what looks like cement or brick like structure. It has a wooden pole sticking out of the top to then have a hanging sign underneath it that spells out "GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS GORGEOUS LIBRARIANS" with a white background and red lettering. At night there is bright red skeleton neon around the lettering on the sign. The structure is painted red with black on the lower half.
Sign - type of display: Neon
Sign - media: Steel and plastic
Sign environment: Property is located near other local businesses and a residential neighborhood
Sign - date of redesign/move: Possible repaint before May 2017 reopening
Sign - artistic significance: The Library uses images of women dressed in professional wear, to play off the notation of the "naughty librarian."
Survey - research locations: Assessor's website
Survey - research notes: https://www.wantickets.com/Events/221951/The-Library-Gentlemen-s-Club-Grand-Opening-MDW-2017-Events/ https://www.palominolv.com/blog/las-vegas-strippers-a-brief-history/ - history of gentlemen clubs in las vegas Opening date unknown, but was receiving online reviews as far back as 2008.
Surveyor: Danny Jacobs
Survey - date completed: 2017-09-11
Sign keywords: Neon; Steel; Plastic; Back to back; Pole sign; Hanging
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Nancy Houssels Collection on the Nevada Dance Theatre
The Nancy Houssels Collection on the Nevada Dance Theatre (1972-1997) consists of programs, posters, photographs, newsletters, magazine articles, and newspaper clippings related to the Nevada Dance Theatre (now Nevada Ballet Theatre) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nancy Houssels co-founded the Nevada Dance Theatre in 1972 with Vassili Sulich.
Archival Collection
Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 17, 1997
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