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Crazy about slot machines, casinos and wild poker games: Las Vegas, which usually lives day and night at the rate of a sweet madness with a furious tendency, has changed into a Ghost City since the establishment containment.
It’s been weeks since the pandemic quieted the world’s playground, snuffing out the symphony of boozy conversation, blaring car horns and slot-machine chimes that once filled the Las Vegas Strip.
It’s been weeks since the pandemic quieted the world’s playground, snuffing out the symphony of boozy conversation, blaring car horns and slot-machine chimes that once filled the Las Vegas Strip.
51ԹϺ’s University Libraries and department of film received a $271,580 National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Award for their project, “Inventing Hollywood: Preserving and Providing Access to the Papers of Renegade Genius Howard Hughes.” Project co-leaders Heather Addison, chair of the 51ԹϺ department of film, and Cyndi Shein, head of special collections’ technical services at 51ԹϺ Libraries, reflect on the importance of preserving the collection.
Long before he was an aviation magnate, a casino owner or a world-famous recluse, Howard Hughes was a fixture in Hollywood.
LOST VEGAS: 51ԹϺ Libraries Special Collections & Archives is gathering photos of an empty & quiet Las Vegas during the coronavirus pandemic so future generations will get a lens into this time.
A gracefully curved building that served as the lobby for the La Concha Motel on the Strip from 1961 to 2004 is now home to the Neon Museum on Las Vegas Boulevard just north of Bonanza.
On Tuesday, March 3, Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Basin Regional Office sponsored an informative special emphasis observance in celebration of Women’s History Month in Boulder City, Nevada.
The Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) of the American Library Association has chosen Melissa Bowles-Terry, associate director of the Faculty Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as the 2020 recipient of the LIRT Librarian Recognition Award. The Librarian Recognition Award was created to recognize an individual’s contribution to the development, advancement and support of information literacy and instruction.
On March 17, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak closed all businesses not essential to public life in Las Vegas for a minimum of one month.
Sometimes the best chroniclers of history are just regular people armed with a Brownie — or a Polaroid, an Instamatic, a 35mm point-and-shoot or, these days, a digital camera or cellphone — taking family photos.
"The history of West Las Vegas is a place where that's all they had, when that's all they knew, the Mississippi of the West is what they called it," said Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly.