Oral History Interviews
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| Narrator | Collection # | Date | Project | Content | Transcript | Tapes |
| Pierce, Marjorie | OH-01483 | 01/17/2006 | Tap Dancing | Selected as a featured dancer by Cecil B. DeMille in Sampson and Delialah. Danced on Broadway, acted in several TV shows. Danced at the Desert Inn and Sahara. | yes | 1 |
| Pierson, Gary | OH-02383 | 2012 November 24 | History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada | Pierson joined the Gabbs, Nevada fire department in 1970. He received EMT training in Las Vegas around 1980. | no | 0 |
| Pinckney, Ida | OH-02900 | 2012 August 03, 2012 November 05 | African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project | no | 0 | |
| Pincus, Harold | OH-02602 | Arnold Shaw | Manilow, Barry's father; Entertainment | no | 1 | |
| Pinjuv, Charles | OH-01484 | 9/30/1986 | Oral History Project | Las Vegas History, Railroad, Freemont Street, The Strip downtown | no | 0 |
| Pinjuv, Eddie | OH-01485 | 2/15/1979 | Oral History | Las Vegas 1920s, Eddie Pinjuv lived in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1919, he was born and raised in the Nevada. | no | 0 |
| Pinjuv, John, Mike and Freddy | OH-02078 | 5/13/2014 | West Charleston | Three brothers (Mike 89, Fred 79, and John 91 years of age. Lived in RR house on 3rd Street. Highlights of LV history over the years. | yes | 0 |
| Piscopo, Joe | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Arnold Shaw | no | 1 | ||
| Pittman, Lonnie | OH-01486 | 03/16/1981 | Blacks Living Condition | Blacks in Las Vegas 1950s, Housing, jobs and education for Blacks in 1956. | no | 1 |
| Pitzer, Dorothy | OH-02777 | 2014 May 19 | West Charleston Neighborhoods--an Oral History Project of Ward 1 | Dorothy Karper was born in Chicago and raised in small Illinois towns. She met her future husband, Doug Pitzer, when they went to rival high schools. Dorothy took nurse's training and married Doug after she graduated in 1950. Doug enlisted in the Air Force, and they moved to Las Vegas in July 1954 when he was transferred to Nellis Air Force Base. Dorothy worked as a nurse at Las Vegas Hospital and Clinic in 1954 to 1957 and later worked for a private obstetrics practice. In 1956 they purchased a house in Twin Lakes. They moved to a house Doug built on Burton Avenue in 1974. Doug passed away in 2011, and Dorothy still lives in the same house. | yes | 0 |
| Plaid, William Eugene | OH-01689 | 6/3/2015 | AfAm | First black room service waiter at the Riviera, worked there for 44 years until closing. Served many entertainers | no | 0 |
| Plaster, Richard | OH-03158 | 2017 March 21 | Building Las Vegas Oral History Project | The English-born Richard Plaster spent his early years in Toronto, Canada, and was raised in Santa Monica, California, from eleven years of age. Son of a real estate man, Plaster attended Santa Monica public schools, Stanford University for undergraduate studies, and earned his MBA at UC Berkeley. Arriving in Las Vegas in 1973 to work for Lewis Homes, Plaster learned lessons of real estate integrity from Ralph Lewis. When Plaster and his wife, Wendy, formed Signature Homes in 1978, they applied those lessons to their own business as they built on their own or formed building partnerships with Ernie Becker III or Tom Beam or others. This former president of the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association (SNHBA) is proud of the role home builders have played in Southern Nevada's planning and development. With the family business now in the capable hands of the second generation, Plaster looks forward to returning to his childhood city of Santa Monica. | no | 0 |
| Please I’d Like to Grow: Conversations and Reflections on Student Activism at UNLV | OH-02905 | 2016 November 20 | Panel discussion on the history of student activism at the university featuring current UNLV students, alumni, and faculty discussing the relevance of student activism on the campus from its earliest days to the present. Held from 2-4 p.m. in the Goldfield Room of Lied Library and moderated by Heidi Johnson, UNLV social sciences librarian and moderator of the panel discussion. Panelists: Michael Curtis, Black Student Organization, UNLV student; Briceida Herndandez, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán (MEChA), Spectrum, UNLV student; Robert Leavitt, Vietnam Veteran, former Rebel Yell photographer, UNLV alumnus; Tara Pike-Nordstrom, Recycling Manager and Campus Sustainability Coordinator, UNLV alumna; Anita Revilla, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Degree Programs, UNLV | no | 0 | |
| Pleggenkuhle, Jay; Perez, Daniel | OH-03453 | 2018 July 18 | Remembering 1 October Oral History Project | Jay and Daniel are business partners in a landscaping venture. After October 1, they wanted to do something for the city. Daniel suggested that Jay call certain people at the City of Las Vegas and propose a healing garden. Jay's call interrupted a conversation among city officials about the possibility of a garden. The City offered a site and the work began. Within 72 hours, a design materialized, volunteers appeared, materials arrived, and the work began. On Friday, the official dedication was held. This interview shares stories of the construction of the garden, the generosity of the human spirit, love, and giving back as a city mourns. This place of healing allows people to leave items that show the heart of this city. The themed tree, the Tree of Life, was donated by an entertainment partnership that loves nature. That oak tree centers the garden and the 58 smaller trees anchors the garden. Plans are afoot to replace the wooden wall with a material more durable in the Las Vegas sun. Preservation of the present wall and the construction of the new wall are the next two projects within the garden that the city is making a permanent sacred site in downtown and yet a place where life abounds. It is the goal of Jay and Daniel to construct a healing garden in the nation's capital and others around the country. SUbjects: Tree Of Life, Siegfried and Roy, tree bombing, fire ring, Rebirth the Earth, National Healing Garden | no | 0 |
| Plotkin, Lee | OH-02561 | 2006-08-02, 2006-08-10, 2006-08-16, 2006-10-04 | Las Vegas Gay Archives Oral History Project | Interviewed by Dennis McBride | no | 10 |
| Plotkin, Lee with Stock, Alan | OH-02562 | 2002 August 27 | Las Vegas Gay Archives Oral History Project | Call in program on KXNT-AM 840. Plotkin and Stock discuss Question 2. | no | 2 |
| Pocock, John | OH-01487 | 03/08/1976 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Las Vegas history, John Pocock was born in Dublin Ireland and immigrated to Las Vegas in 1950, he has lived in Las Vegas for 26 years. | yes | 2 |
| Poirier, Ruth | OH-03593 | 2003 February 05 | Las Vegas Women Oral History Project | yes | 0 | |
| Polikoff, Todd | OH-02815 | August 30, 2016 | Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project | F850.J5 P64 2014 CEO of Jewish Federation in 2015; previously Director of Las Vegas AIPAC office. | yes | 0 |
| Pollak, George | OH-02133 | 5/25/2010 | All That Jazz | At four years of age, George could hear a song on the radio and play it on the piano by ear. Played at El Rancho, Caesars Palace, the Barbary Coast, and the Gold Coast for 23 years. ML394.P64 2010 | yes | 0 |
| Polson, Billie Mae | OH-01488 | 11/1/11 | Boyer Early LV OHP | Early Las Vegas Life, career at UNLV libraries when campus was still Nevada Southern. Gambling, Schooling, Campus politics | yes | 0 |
| Polson, Billie Mae | OH-02898 | 1978 March 07 | Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas | Interviewed by Eva D. Head. Early Las Vegas, UNLV in the 1960s, UNLV Library, Clark County Library System. | no | 1 |
| Pomeray, Donnie | OH-01489 | May 5, 2006 | 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 | 0 |
| Pomeroy, Betty | OH-01490 | 03/23/1976 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | no | 1 | |
| Poon, Percy | OH-01491 | 2/5/2007 | UNLV @ Fifty | LD3745 .P65 2007 Dr. Percy Poon came to UNLV in 1989 to teach finance. He is the dean of the College of Business | yes | 0 |
| Poon, Percy Dr. | OH-01491 | 02/05/2007 | The UNLV @ Fifty Oral History Project | LD 3745.P65 2007 Dr. Percy Poon came to UNLV in 1989 to teach finance. He is the dean of the College of Business | yes | 1 |
| Popovich, Nicholas | OH-01492 | 03/15/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Gaming, Las Vegas Growth | no | 1 |
| Portaro, Ron | OH-03212 | 2017 July 27 | Building Las Vegas Oral History Project | F849.L35 P67 2016 Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Ron Portaro used his life and work experience and educational background in law and labor management to build a successful career as a consultant managing large projects for builders and developers. Portaro discusses ways he facilitates communication and scheduling between owners (such as the City of Las Vegas or the Regional Transportation Commission), contractors, and the building trades to work together to achieve a common goal. Current projects include the Main Street/Commerce Street One-Way Couplet near Project Neon. | yes | 0 |
| Porter, Carrie Townley | OH-01493 | 2/7/2006 | UNLV @ Fifty | LD3745 .P67 2007 Carrie Townley Porter moved to Las Vegas because her husband worked for the Atomic Energy Commission and had to travel to the Test Site frequently. She worked as a subsitute teacher and finished her degree at Nevada Southern University (now UNLV). She taught math at Gibson Junion High, she has worked at UNLV as an archivist and has worked as a records analyst and records administrator for different businesses. Carrie Porter has been very involved with the Nevada Women's History Project, is writing a book on Helen J. Stewart with Sally Zanjani, and owns a records management consulting firm. Carrie Townley Porter moved to Las Vegas because her husband worked for the Atomic Energy Commission and had to travel to the Test Site frequently. She worked as a subsitute teacher and finished her degree at Nevada Southern University (now UNLV). She taught math at Gibson Junion High, she has worked at UNLV as an archivist and has worked as a records analyst and records administrator for different businesses. Carrie Porter has been very involved with the Nevada Women's History Project, is writing a book on Helen J. Stewart with Sally Zanjani, and owns a records management consulting firm | yes | 0 |
| Porter, Clara L. | OH-01494 | 04/24/1979 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada history | no | 1 |
| Porter, Faye Rhea | OH-01495 | 6/13/2012 | Boyer Early Las Vegas OHP - Shake, Rattle, and Roll | Memories of unique life in Las Vegas as the spouse of Nevada Test Site employee. | yes | 0 |
| Porter, Faye Rhea | OH-01496 | 03/17/2012 | 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 | 2 |
| Porter, Gary | OH-03180 | 2017 April 26 | Building Las Vegas Oral History Project | Interviewed by Stefani Evans. Oklahoman Gary Porter arrived in Las Vegas in 1970 as a new accountant with Haskins & Sells (later Deloitte), in charge of auditing Hughes corporate accounts. In 1973 he joined Hughes Corporation and in 1977 went to Hughes Aviation, where he remained until he retired in 1990. Subjects: Las Vegas, NV; Hughes Aviation; North Las Vegas Air Terminal; McCarran Airport Charter terminal; Airplane maintenance | no | 0 |
| Porter, Ina | OH-01497 | 1/05/2010 | Voices of the historic John S. Park Neighborhood | F849.L35 P668 2010 Ina Porter and her husband Burdell moved to the John S. Park Neighborhood in the 1940s. They were among the earliest homeowners and soon the neigborhood grew to include a Mormon church that would be integral to the Porter's family life and to the neighborhood. Ina's daughter Sue Ann joins her mother in this interview, and she was also interviewed separately | yes | 0 |
| Porter, Irene | OH-02689 | 2009 November 6 | Las Vegas Women Oral History Project | F849.L35 P6683 2010 After Irene Porter's father's retirement from the Air Force, the family moved to Las Vegas where her aunt and uncle were involved in the gaming industry. After she married, she and her husband Dick moved to Boston. They moved back to Las Vegas due to the bad economy in Boston. Irene worked for the Clark County Planning Department as a secretary but moved up to doing the work of the director, but without the title nor the pay of that position, so she went to work in the planning department of the city of North Las Vegas and became its director of planning. She was one of only five female planning directors in the country. Next Irene began lobbying at the Nevada legislature and became the first female full-time lobbyist in Nevada. She was fired from North Las Vegas following a secret meeting, and her subsequent lawsuit led directly to the first open meeting law in the state of Nevada. Irene then went to work for American Nevada Corporation, which was developing Green Valley. She became the first female project director on such a construction project. In 1977 Irene began to work for the Southern Nevada Homebuilders Association. She built it into an effective lobbying organization and continued to work as a lobbyist at the Nevada legislature. At the time of the interview, she was the executive director/CEO for the Southern Nevada Homebuilders Association. | yes | 0 |
| Porter, Sue Ann | OH-01498 | 12/29/2008 | Voices of the historic John S. Park Neighborhood | F849.L35 R63 2010 Sue Ann Porter is a native Las Vegas. She and her three siblings wre raised in the house she now shares with her mother Ina Porter in the John S. Park Neighborhood | yes | 0 |
| Porter, Tad | OH-01499 | 10/17/1972 | Attorney | Attorney at Law | no | 1 |
| Poster, Jay | OH-02811 | August 26, 2016 | Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project | F850.J5 P67 2014 Jay is general manager of King David Funeral Home; an active member of The Desert Winds; Shabbatones (at Congregation Ner Tamid); Jewish Family Services. | yes | 0 |
| Potter, Delon | OH-01500 | 2/3/1972 | Mesquite, Nevada, Mesquite history in the 1900s, Mormon community | no | 0 | |
| Potter, Nephi Mr. & Mrs. | OH-01501 | 07/07/1975 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Las Vegas History 1920s | no | 1 |
| Potter, Patricia & Raymond | OH-02614 | 6/5/2014 | Ward 1 | yes | 0 | |
| Powell, Alberta | OH-01502 | 03/08/1981 | Native Las Vegan | Las Vegas history | no | 1 |
| Powers, Mrs. Albert | OH-01503 | 01/22/1972 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Las Vegas history | no | 1 |
| Poyser, Ray and Nora | OH-01504 | 11/25/1972 | Local Oral History Dr. Roske | Boulder City History | yes | 0 |
| Pradia, Paul A. | OH-01505 | 07/03/2010 | Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project | CT247 .P73 2007 Paul Pradia was one of a family of 19 children in Cameron, Louisiana. He was a commissioned officer in the airborne division of the US Army, worked for HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development), and became a golf teaching professional. He talks about African Americans in golf. He moved to Las Vegas in 1995 | yes | 0 |
| Prather, James | OH-01506 | 03/09/1981 | Growing up in Las Vegas | Las Vegas history | no | 1 |
| Pratt, Gary | OH-01507 | 03/16/1978 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada history | no | 1 |
| Preciado, Mirna | OH-02157 | 9/11/2014 | BELV - Culinary Local 226 | CT247 .P74 2014 Migration from Mexico. Recruitment into the Culinary Union. Frontier Strike. 15 years of Culinary Union work as an organizer in Las Vegas | yes | 0 |
| Preddy, Sarann Knight | OH-01508 | 06/05/1997 | Women in Gaming & Entertainment | F850.N4 P74 1998 Sarann Preddy owned and operated a number of gaming establishments during her long career. She was born in Eufaula, Oklahoma, and moved to Las Vegas with her husband and her father in 1942. Sarann found few opportunities in Las Vegas, so she went to Los Angeles to attend business school. She wrote keno at the Cotton Club and learned to deal "21". Sarann and her second husband moved to Hawthorne, Nevada, and she bought the Lincoln Bar there, obtained a gaming license, and operated the bar for seven years. In 1957 she returned to Las Vegas and worked at Westside clubs as a dealer until a newly enacted ordinance barring women from dealing in Las Vegas ended that career. Sarann then operated several ventures including a cleaning establishment, a dress shop, and a lounge. She returned to dealing at the height of the integration effort and worked at Jerry's Nugget for seven years. Sarann became active in the NAACP. She helped bring integration to the Strip and established the NAACP Women's Auxiliary. Sarann was defeated in a run for a seat on the City Commission and then obtained another gaming license and opened the People's Choice, first as a supper club and later as a gambling establishment. Sarann and her husband Joe Preddy tried to buy the Moulin Rouge to restore it, but they were unable to secure financing to restore it and had to sell it to a developer. They were able to have it designated a historic preservation site | yes | 3 |
| Preddy, Sarann Knight | OH-01509 | undated | Collector: Yvonne R. Hunter | yes | 1 |
