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0083Gill, Lloyd
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Later Las Vegas
Carver House (now Cove Hotel), D and Jackson Street
01 Unidentified musicians and female singer
02 Unidentified male entertainer
03 Unidentified male musicians
04 Swimming pool
05 Swimming pool
06 Unidentified woman swimmer with hotel rooms in background
07 Unidentified people, interior
08 Exterior view, D and Jackson, with billboard, 1961 or 62
09 Exterior view, D and Jackson, no billboard
El Rio, H and Revere
10 Desk (Asian person on duty)
11 Poker table including dealer S.D. Franklin and Bula
12 Crap table, Marie; Howard King, local fighter; and James O'Neal
13 Bar, S.D. Franklin, bartender
14 Keno
15 Crap table, Jean Wesley, Fred Richardson
16 Crap table, Wash, James O'Neal, Jeno , Roberts "Moon" Mullins
Love's Cocktail Lounge
17 Bar, Lafayette
18 Lounge with musicians, Mr. Love, owner
New Town Tavern, F & Jackson
19 Crap table, Ike, Cliff Porter, Florence Elmor
20 Bar room, Ike Rome, Glory Rome, Florence Elmor
21 Crap table, Little Lee
22 Outside view of bar, October 1960
Bruno's Liquor Store
23 Inside view, Mr. Bruno's daughter at counter
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Later Las Vegas (cont.)
Jimmy Snowden Liquor Store
24 Pinball machines, Kitty
Gilbert's Liquor Store, Bonanza and D
25 inside bar, Bill
Flamingo Hilton
26 Outside view of Flamingo Hotel
Opera House
27 Outside view
Sugar Hill, H and Revere (now on Jackson)
28 Outside view of bar
Sneak Joint, Sahara
0029 Exterior view of bar
Hilltop House Billboard
0030 Exterior view of billboard
Hamburger Heaven No.1, E and Monroe
0031 Front counter, Katherine
People
0032 Mrs. Bruno, Bruno's Liquor store.
0033 Dorothy Collins
0034 Josephine Dixon, Community Store, built and owned by Roland Johnson [and his first wife]
0035 Lloyd Gill, CEP Center
0036 Dorothy King, Politics, EOB Center
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People (cont.)
0037 Sonny Liston, in front of Cove Hotel
0038 Ernie Marshall, ed. OF Black paper, with unidentified man
0039 Erma Lee O'Neal, EOB
0040 EOB sign painters, James Brown, Lloyd Gill
0041 Leo Johnson and Art Grant
0042 Olivia, Elks Bar, ca. 1950, E and Jackson
0043 Woneta at Brown Derby
DOCUMENTATION
Lloyd Gill (born Morriligton, Arkansas, August 28, 1912) came to Las Vegas in the 1950s. On one occasion he stated that he came to Las Vegas in 1954 from Fairbanks, Alaska (Feb. 17, 1979); on another date (April 10, 1979) Mr. Gill said he came in 1957 or 58 from Sacramento, where he had stopped in Sacramento and some fellows said, "Let's go to Las Vegas", which he did. He said he came to gamble and never left.
He has been a sign painter all his life, is self-taught, and has always run his own business. For six months he taught a sign painting class for the Economic Opportunity Board, the only time he had his own shop. He stated that he retired ten years ago but that he still has requests for work. When I stopped by his apartment on April 10, he had numerous backs for signs outside the front door and he told me he was working on signs for a candidate for the May city primary.
Mr. Gill said he got his first camera in 1917 or 18 and that he has been taking pictures ever since. His pictures are primarily stills and movies. Asked what kind of movies he took, he responded "Mostly kids, girls, fires, wrecks." He said he took pictures of what interested him and was never concerned about making a historical record. However, his collections document clubs, liquor stores and food operations in West Las Vegas. Numbers of well-known Westside residents are pictured. His photographs were the first deposit in Special Collections of visual materials on the Carver House, now the Cove. He once had a darkroom but didn't like enlarging and the developing process.
Mr. Gill identified many of the men in the photographs and stated that they were recently deceased. Asked what caused their deaths he responded, "All my friends died of cirrhosis of the liver."
Mr. Gill's collection of photographs was made known to me through a phone call. He saw a newspaper article on the project, "Black Experience in Southern Nevada", noted that we were interested in collecting photographs , and invited me to take a look at his collection. He loaned the originals for copying, retaining the originals. Many of his original prints are in poor condition as they were Polaroid shots which have deteriorated.
A. Kepper 4/10/79