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Oral History Interviews
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| Narrator | Date | Project | Content | Transcript | Tapes |
| Bailey, William H. (Bob) | 03/16/1978; Summer 1999; 11/19/1997 | 3 interviews: Local Oral History - Roske (Rosenthal Transcribed), Local History - White (transcribed), and First 100 Interview | F849.L35.B35 Moulin Rouge, Blacks in performing arts, entertainment business, equal rights commission, 1960s | yes | 7 |
| Baird, Xniea L. | 04/05/1976 | Goldfield History | History of Goldfield Nevada, mining, flood, fire | no | 1 |
| Baker, Alfred Frank | 04/04/1975 | Local Las Vegas History - Roske | Hoover Dam | no | 1 |
| Baker, Anne Victoria | 04/31/1975 | Hoover Dam | Hoover Dam, Personal history | no | 1 |
| Baker, Carol | 05/29/2003 | Las Vegas Oral History Project - Hardy | CT247 B33 Carol Baker came from England and was a dancer who danced with the Lido de Paris before coming to Las Vegas and dancing in the Folies bergere and Casino de Paris. She talks about the life of an entertainer on the Strip, including backstage life, parties, and relationships among dancers | yes | 2 |
| Baker, Helen Jamison | 03/12/1981 | Hoover Dam Boulder City History - Roske | Boulder City during Hoover Dam construction, 1932 - 1937, Henderson vs. Boulder City, Rev. T. Stephenson, moving and convention business in Las Vegas. | no | 1 |
| Baker, Lynn V. | 04/01/1976 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Downtown Fremont, expansion, housing conditions, police and fire services, military and commercial plane disasters, water supply, local labor force. | no | 1 |
| Baldus, Joseph Rev. | 10/08/1982 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Catholic Church, personal history, Church history in Nevada, religion. (personal photo) | no | 1 |
| Ball, Renee | 02/28/2007 | Blue Diamond Oral History Project Committee | This is the history of Blue Diamond Village. Blue Diamond is located 26 miles southwest of Las Vegas. The village, originally known as Cottonwood Springs, changed its name when the Blue Diamond Company took ownership of the Gypsum mine and built corporate housing for the workers in the early '20s. Near the base of the Red Rock canyon, Blue Diamond Village was originally a stop on the Old Spanish Trail for traders from Santa Fe, N.M., to California between 1830 and 1848, according to the history committee's findings. road for the The Blue Diamond School opened in 1929. The company built bunk housing and homes for the workers that it started selling to the public in 1965. | yes | 1 |
| Ballance, Robert (Bob) G. Jr. | 03/10/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Personal history, changes and growth in Nevada, cheating in casinos, key people in Holiday Casino, crimes in Las Vegas, religion, schools in Nevada, sports in school, business in Nevada, building "the strip", Police department, military base, gas prices, environment. | no | 1 |
| Ballard, Kaye | 03/29/1981 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 |
| Banks, Maria S. | 09/23/1972 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Gaming, Gambling, Nevada history | no | 1 |
| Banks, Myrtle | 03/15/1981 | Local LV History - Roske | Las Vegas Black history, Beginning Elks Club, Operation Independence, Politics, Health Care, Welfare Rights, Memorable phase: Why Not Have A Place in the Sun? | no | 1 |
| Banner, James J. | 03/01/1973 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | No Tape - Hand Written Interview; state assemblyman, World War 2, Nevada Test Site, Construction of the Boulder Dam, development and growth of Las Vegas, Blacks in Las Vegas, Presidential visits: Kennedy, Nixon, Roosevelt | yes | 0 |
| Baratz, Adele | 03/04/1979 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | General Nevada history, early Las Vegas, 1950 's to 1979, WWII life in Las Vegas, nursing, medicine, medical advancements, taxes, highways, politics and organized, hospitals in Las Vegas. | no | 1 |
| Baratz, Adele | 03/19/2007 | BOYER EARLY LAS VEGAS OHP | Early Jewish community, education, shopping, restaurants, Al's Bar, medical care, Helldorado, early hotels | no | 2 |
| Barbarite, Thomas | 03/03/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Early gaming and gambling in Las Vegas, 1955 - 1981 | no | 1 |
| Barber, Shirley A. | 4/11/2003 | Principalship OHP - Carlton | CCSD employment, School Board tenure | yes | 1 |
| Barbutti, Pete | 01/27/1995 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Joe Delaney | no | 1 |
| Barbutti, Pete | 08/28/1992 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Joe Delaney | no | 1 |
| Barbutti, Pete | 11/21/1990 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 |
| Barcus, Edith Giles | 03/17/1977 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Mining, Goldfield History, fire of 1923, Miss Giles Lid Shop, Scotty's Castle, Gans-Nelson fight, water shortage, gold mines, mining for purple glass, Episcopal Church in Goldfield, religion. | no | 1 |
| Bardy, Mildred | 03/11/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Golden Nugget, Hacienda, Tropicana Hotels, Jerry's Nugget restaurant, Churches and religion, Mormon women, Fanny's clothing store, Mint Hotel, Bardy's Bar, fire at El Rancho, Flamingo Hotel, Judaism / Jewish history, Temple Beth Sholom, Totie Fields, Little Chapel of the West, New Frontier, Helldorado, clothing and fashion, Horse Club, Mesquite Club, Junior League, Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam), apartments in Henderson, Nevada Palace, Showboat, Sam's Town Hotels, Boulder Club and Silver Nugget, Florence Richards' Dress Shop. | no | 1 |
| Baritz, Adele | 3/1979 and March 19, 2007 | Roske (1tape) Boyer Early Las Vegas OHP (2) | Stories of early Las Vegas including father's work on the Hoover Dam. Roske - not transcribed; Boyer series is transcribed (not bound) | no | 3 |
| Barler, Virgil | 11/19/2003 | Blue Diamond OHP | Worked in the shop at the mine, dozer, oiler. Talks about general store. | yes | 2 |
| Barneby, Ethlyn | 10/16/2003 | BOYER EARLY LAS VEGAS OHP | Boulder City in the 1940s. | no | 1 |
| Barnett, Barbara Ann | 03/08/1981 | Local LV OHP - Roske | Nursing, accounting, Mint Casino early 1960 's, Hacienda Hotel, Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital, Sunrise Hospital, changes and growth in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas Hospital, air-conditioning, Atomic testing, health and medical care changes, dust storms, "the Strip", fire at El Rancho Hotel, Downtown Las Vegas, Fremont Street, Casino employees, unwed mother experience. | no | 1 |
| Barnett, Mark | 09/04/2002 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Cork Proctor | no | 1 |
| Barney, L. (Lendon) Kay | 03/07/1978 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Teaching in Bunkerville, Mesquite, and Las Vegas. Population growth, politics, property values. Growth of Mormon Church in Las Vegas, Mormonism in Nevada, religion. Photo at family reunion. | no | 1 |
| Barnum, Odean | April 7, 2007 | Blue Diamond Oral History Project | This is the history of Blue Diamond Village. Blue Diamond is located 26 miles southwest of Las Vegas. The village, originally known as Cottonwood Springs, changed its name when the Blue Diamond Company took ownership of the Gypsum mine and built corporate housing for the workers in the early '20s. Near the base of the Red Rock canyon, Blue Diamond Village was originally a stop on the Old Spanish Trail for traders from Santa Fe, N.M., to California between 1830 and 1848, according to the history committee's findings. road for the The Blue Diamond School opened in 1929. The company built bunk housing and homes for the workers that it started selling to the public in 1965. | yes | 1 |
| Barr, Larry & Juanita; Gibson, Steven | 03/27/1976 | Local LV OHP - Roske | Blacks in Las Vegas, work on the dam, living in tents, early entertainters, early development in Las Vegas. | yes | 1 |
| Barret, Robert H. | 02/22/1975 | Local LV OHP - Roske | Prostitution, Education, Lombard's plane crash, Atomic Testing at Yucca Flats, water company. | no | 1 |
| Barrick, Marjorie | 03/13/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | UNLV, Las Vegas history, founding Child Haven, Owning Flamingo and the Freemont, "the hotel people" | no | 1 |
| Barry, Dave | 04/01/1976 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Arnold Shaw | no | 1 |
| Bass, Ralph | 05/30/1974 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Arnold Shaw | no | 1 |
| Baucum, Helen M. | 01/28/1975 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | General Nevada history, Boulder City history, Las Vegas and Henderson history, casinos in Southern Nevada, Cat Houses and Prostitution, Atomic Testing, Carole Lombard's plane crash, law enforcement, railroad. | no | 1 |
| Baumert, Charles A. "Chic" | 10/31/1975 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Hoover Dam work, Boulder City history, closing companies for operations at Hoover Dam. | no | 1 |
| Bavington, Kim | 7/15/2010 | Voices of the Historic John S. Park Neighborhood | F849.L35.B358 Kim Bavington moved to Las Vegas with her parents in 1964. She has been an aerobics teacher, an art teacher, and a graphic designer. She and her husband live in a Mid-Century Modern ranch house in the John S. Park Neighborhood | yes | 0 |
| Beach, Paul A. | 02/17/1976 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | General Las Vegas history, city housing, airport, transportation, tourist recreation, economy, Nellis AFB, "the Strip", Korean War, Atomic testing, education. | no | 1 |
| Beagle, Donald | 1976 | Helldorado | General Nevada History, Helldorado | no | 1 |
| Beals, Alversa | 10/23/2007 | History of the 1970s - UNLV & UNR | History of the Welfare Rights Movement - 1970's | yes | 2 |
| Bearce, Pat | 09/29/1972 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Helldorado, Las Vegas history, Stock Car Races at Last Frontier. | no | 1 |
| Beatles Twist and Shout | 10/21/1994 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Joe Delaney | no | 1 |
| Becker, Hal de | 06/23/2003 | BOYER EARLY LAS VEGAS OHP | yes | 2 | |
| Bedrosian, Kenneth | 4/29/2004 | Principalship OHP | Education and work in CCSD | yes | 1 |
| Beeman, Dinny K. | Unknown | Local Oral History Project-Roske | No Tape - Hand Written Interview; history of Las Vegas, St. James Catholic Church, Las Vegas High School, first school band | yes | 0 |
| Belfer, Hal | 11/11/1992 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Bill Willard | no | 1 |
| Belknap, Bill | 02/12/1979 | Local LV OHP - Roske | Colorado River, Nevada State Advisory Commission, WWII, Henderson Power Plant during WWII, El Rancho 1940 's, Tule Springs Archaeological Project 1966 - 1967, Atomic Testing, Lake Mead, Boulder City, music and Jazz in Southern Nevada, teaching at UNLV, photography, Grand Canyon. | no | 2 |
| Bell, Barbara | 02/04/1970 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Arnold Shaw | no | 1 |
| Bell, Freddie | 03/12/1993 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Joe Delaney | no | 1 |