Oh, them golden slippers
Oh, them golden slippers
Golden slippers I’m goin’ to wear
To walk the golden street
It stands proudly in the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard near the Neon Museum, but the Silver of the Slipper was a second precious metal choice by its owners. From Golden to Silver, the details follow. Continue reading “Midas was not involved when Gold was turned into Silver in Las Vegas.”
For a few years in the central Nevada Desert community of Blair, bookkeeper Clarence Leach spent many of his days writing, sending and receiving post cards from around the world. This is his story.
Continue reading “Leach Started the 1908 Project Which involved Blair”
Earl Brothers, as the Boulder-Hoover-Boulder Dam was being built, received an exclusive license to supply visitors and tourist with everything from post cards to small metal dams.
Brothers was in fact for several decades, the Curio King of Boulder Dam. In this first of a multi-part series, the focus is on his relationship with the largest post card printer in the United States at the time Curt Teich out of Chicago.
Frank Doherty, newspaperman, elected official of new county of Clark County and Las Vegas silent motion picture operator, in 1914 published one Las Vegas Post
Continue reading “1914 Las Vegas Post Card – Clark County Court House – DeLongchamps”
This is the first of a series of articles on motels of Nevada. As motels in Nevada’s major metropolitan areas are being paved over, the important role they played in the development of the state’s hospitality industry is also being lot.
While still alive and well in places like Boulder City, and communities along Interstate 80, and smaller tourist destinations in Nevada, the fight for survival is a daily battle.
The focus of this article is a short overview on the status of motels in Las Vegas.
Continue reading “Going, Going, Gone, the Motels of Las Vegas 2018 update”
(Updated January 26, 2024)
In the Fall of 1909 a “L. Levitch” photographed gambling clubs in Reno, the historic night, September 30, 1910, that gambling became illegal in Nevada.
Continue reading ““L. Levitch” Clairvoyant Reno, Nevada Photographer”
In 1921, the husband and wife team of photographers, Leon and Nell Oakes arrived in Las Vegas. For nearly a quarter century the Oakes name would be connected to photography in southern Nevada.
This is part one of a series of articles on their live and their photographs, which include more than monthly updates of the construction of Hoover Dam.
Continue reading “Leon and Nell Oakes – Las Vegas Photographers 1920s-1940s Part One”
(Updated October 26, 2020)
A series of 1905 photographs of Nevada, (Goldfield, Tonopah, Carson City, Virginia City, and Reno,) were sent to San Francisco in January of 1906 to be turned into post cards.
Out of the several dozen images, several were selected and turn into psot cards and printed in March 1906.
Days after the post cards were printed and shipped to Nevada, the April 1906 earthquake destroyed much of San Francisco.
Among the destruction, the printing plant of Edward H. Mitchell. Also destroyed his offices and files, and all of the photographs and negatives of Nevada were destroyed.
Now, new information has been uncovered revealing which images of Nevada were printed the days before the earthquake.
This article includes details as to which images were saved and which were lost. Continue reading “Historic Images of Nevada Destroyed in 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Found, E. H. Mitchell Post Card”