Oral History Interviews
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| Narrator | Collection # | Date | Project | Content | Transcript | Tapes |
| Miles, Butch | September 3. 1994 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 | |
| Miller, Bruce E. | OH-01292 | 2006 May 11 | Public School Principalship Oral History Project | yes | 1 | |
| Miller, Daisy | OH-01293 | 3/22/2013 | AfAm Collaborative | F850.N4.M54 2013Education. Raising children in the Westside community. Daisy Lee Miller moved from Louisiana to Las Vegas in her 20s. She worked in the powder room at the California Club and then went to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and worked at the Economic Opportunity Board in the family planning program while she worked on her degree. Daisy worked as a high school teacher, school counselor, and then assistant principal. She has been active in her church and in community organizations. Her mother worked at the Nevada Test Site | yes | 0 |
| Miller, Denise | OH-01294 | 03/02/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Dancing in Las Vegas | no | 1 |
| Miller, Donna | OH-02373 | 2013 March 14 | History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada | Miller owns and operates the Flying ICU, an air ambulance service, which she started in 2002. She began working in the ICU at Valley Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1999. | no | 0 |
| Miller, Donna | OH-02444 | 5/15/2015 | BELVOHP | Grew up on a potato farm in Oregon. Moved to Las Vegas in 1954 when the family moved to McNeil Estates and later to 10th street downtown. Walked to school at LV High where she became a Rhythmette during her sophomore year and served through 12th grade. Worked at the Sahara and the Thunderbird. Later became a real estate broker. | no | 0 |
| Miller, Donna Phelps | OH-01295 | February 28, 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 |
| Miller, Elissa | OH-01296 | 03/03/1980 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada history | yes | 1 |
| Miller, Jane | OH-02371 | 2013 February 14 | History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada | After managing an air ambulance service out of Denver, Colorado, Miller moved to Reno, Nevada to manage the new helicopter ambulance service that began in 1980. | no | 0 |
| Miller, Kenneth | OH-01297 | 01/28/2004 | Rotary Club | yes | 1 | |
| Miller, Linda Karen, Dr. | OH-03635 | 2019 July 10 | Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project | Interviewed by Claytee White. Linda Miller earned her PhD at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and then lived and worked in Fairfax where she earned many teaching honors. Once relocated to Las Vegas, her interested turned to the history of this city. She encountered the legacy of Helen J. Stewart and began to personify her through the art of Chautauqua. She wrote a well-received book about Stewart as well. Subjects: Chautauqua, Helen J. Stewart, Old Mormon Fort, Lee Koury, Argent Trial | no | 0 |
| Miller, Mary F (Botts) | OH-02125 | 6/12/2010 | BELVOHP | Mary is related to the Stewart family, uncle born at the Old Mormon Fort. Dad fished in Colorado river before it was dammed. (Will be produced in volume with Owen Bunker, LaRue and Dick Worthen, and Janice Zobrist) | no | 0 |
| Miller, Micheal | OH-01298 | 04/05/1976 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada history | yes | 1 |
| Miller, Norma | 10/28/1984 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Bill Willard | no | 1 | |
| Miller, Roger | 06/14/1979 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 | |
| Miller, Roger | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 2 | ||
| Miller, Wes | OH-01299 | 03/08/1998 | Gay Archives-Dennis McBride | yes | 2 | |
| Miller-Newcomb, Terry | OH-01300 | 10/10/2005 | UNLV | LD3745 .M54 2007 | yes | 2 |
| Millington, Barbara | OH-01301 | 03/02/1980 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada history | yes | 1 |
| Mills, David | OH-01302 | 03/07/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Small Business, Slot Machines, Nevada history | no | 1 |
| Mills, Hughie and Greta | OH-01303 | 4/7/2011 | Boyer Early LV OHP | CT247 .M44 2007 Hughie and Greta Mills were originally from Charlestown, West Virginia. They married in 1954 in New York City. He was an educator at Columbia and she was a librarian. They retired and moved to Las Vegas in 1989 Notes Includes appendix with article from school newsletter about Greta, honors announcements, articles about Hughie, copies of newspaper clippings with stories about Hughie, and a copy of an employment letter | yes | 0 |
| Mills, Morgan | OH-01304 | 03/26/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Hoover Dam | yes | 1 |
| Mills, Ruth Annette | OH-01305 | 11/20/2008 | Heart to Heart: A History of Las Vegas Health Care Oral History Project | R154.M64.A3 2009 Ruth Annette Mills was an elementary school teacher in Las Vegas and is a community activist who was active in the League of Women Voters. She was the facilitator for the school integration program here and started the Nevada Health Care Reform Project | yes | 0 |
| Millson, Cathie | OH-02089 | 6/10/2014 | Ward 1 | yes | 0 | |
| Milton, Billie | OH-01306 | 05/05/1976 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Las Vegas history 1940 - | no | 1 |
| Minero, Mariano | OH-03530 | 2018 December 07 | Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project | Marinao Minero was born in a small town named San Juan in the state of La Paz in El Salvador. Minero was born to a humble farming family. Minero recalls spending his childhood helping his father harvest coffee and cotton. As Minero got older and the political climate worsened in El Salvador his family began to worry about his well being. Eventually Minero's grandmother decided to send him away to the states before war broke out in the small country. Minero arrived in Los Angeles, where he was able to find work in the hotel industry. In 2004, Minero made the move to Las Vegas to continue working in the hotel industry, this time however he found work within a union, something he always wanted. Minero keeps active in union, attending and participating in as many as events as he can. Interview conducted in Spanish. Subjects: Salvadorean Coffee and Cotton industry, Salvadorean Civil War, Culinary Union | no | 0 |
| Mink Colbert, Margot | OH-02182 | 11/11/2014 | Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project | UNLV professor of Jewish ancestry talks about her heritage, her dancing, and the choreography and story of Jewish immigration that she tells in her Transitions Trilogy. | no | 0 |
| Minnear, Beverly J. | OH-01307 | 2003 April 15 | Public School Principalship Oral History Project | yes | 1 | |
| Minsky, Harold | 01/21/1970 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Arnold Shaw | no | 1 | |
| Mintz, Yocheved (Rabbi) | OH-02284 | March 11, 2015 | Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project | In 1997 Rabbi Mintz, longtime educator, arrived in Las Vegas; husband Dr. Alan Mintz founder of Cenegenics. 2005 became spiritual leader of what is now known as Congregation P'nai Tikvah. | yes | 0 |
| Mirabal, Nora | OH-03665 | 2019 August 30 | Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project | Cuban refugee family by way of Spain and then to the US; arrived in Las Vegas in 1973 when Nora was 9 years old. Struggled in youth but rises up as embraces education. Currently is Assistant Director of Academic Partnership at CSN Subjects: Jumpstart Concurrent Enrollment Program, CSN, Cuban immigrant and culture F850.S75 M573 2019 | yes | 0 |
| Mirage Hotel Opening | 11/22/1989 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 | |
| Miranda, Tony | OH-01308 | 07/24/2006 | UNLV | LD3745 .M57 2007 | yes | 2 |
| Miranda, Tony Dr. | OH-01308 | 07/24/2006 | The UNLV @ Fifty Oral History Project | Dr. Miranda taught Chicano studies from the beginning of the ethnic studies program at UNLV and was the chair of the Anthropology and Ethnic Studies Department | yes | 0 |
| Mirchandani, Ashok "Ash" | OH-03738 | 2021-03-11 | Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project | Interviewed by Kristel Peralta, Cecilia Winchell, Stefani Evans. Born in Kalkota, West Bengal, India, youngest child in a businessman's household, Ashok Mirchandani graduated from the University of Calcutta with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. After arriving in Las Vegas in 2002, he worked with the State of Nevada under three Republican governors, eventually becoming Director of the Department of Business and Industry, where he focused on small business development and advocacy. He coordinated the Governor's Conference on Small Business, developed the Nevada Home Retention Program, and founded the non-profit United Citizens Foundation, which provides free mental health services to at-risk Clark County School District children. He promotes Asian political activism and chaired the Biden for President Nevada AAPI Leadership Council. Subjects: Kalkota, Calcutta, India, small business, foreclosed houses, mental health, politics, Diwali, Holi. | no | 0 |
| Mississippi of the West | 07/04/1991 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Documentary | no | 1 | |
| Miztri, Rose and Rachel Parker | OH-02628 | 3/7/2016 | BELVOHP | A transgendered couple (both male to female) who assist transgender youth locate housing, employment and become comfortable within a world that is changing in the understanding to sexual identity. Rose was named person of the year by Q Magazine. She is experiencing stage 4 lung cancer. | no | 0 |
| Mlynarczyk, Flo | OH-01309 | 07/07/2005 | Boyer Early Las vegas Oral History Project | CT247 .M48 2007 Flo Mlynarczyk lived in Tonopah in the 1940s. She worked in propane sales Las Vegas in the early 60s, she has been involved with the UNLV University Library Society, Mesquite Club, and other community groups. Flo worked for the Las Vegas Convention Center and is a water colorist. Her husband worked at the Nevada Test Site | yes | 2 |
| Mohler, John | OH-02369 | 2013 January 18 | History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada | Mohler received a degree in biology from the University of Nevada, Reno. He began working for AIDS Ambulance at age 19. In 1977 he began teaching CPR classes, and in 1980 he became an EMT. He became an RN in 1985 and began flying for St. Mary's Hospital's Care Flight. | no | 0 |
| Molasky, Beth | OH-02123 | 6/2/2014 | Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project | Daughter of developer Irwin Molasky talks about her own real estate/development work; being from Las Vegas. F850 J5 M637 2014 | yes | 0 |
| Molasky, Irwin | OH-01310 | LV Review Journal-First 100 | no | 3 | ||
| Molasky, Irwin | OH-02154 | April 23, 2014 | Boyer Early Las Vegas | Early Las Vegas developer | yes | 1 |
| Molasky, Irwin and Susan | OH-01311 | 2006 | I Remember When: Recollections from LV Jewish Leaders | F850.J5.M64 2005 One of the most significant developers - Boulevard Mall and Sunrise Hospital. Started UNLV Foundation. | no | 0 |
| Molasky, Susan | OH-02140 | 03/11/2014 | Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project | Founding member of Nathan Adelson Hospice; wife of a founding developer and businessman Irwin Molasky. F850.J5 M638 2014 | yes | 0 |
| Molen, Joanne Pattiani | OH-02679 | 1997 January 25 | Las Vegas Women Oral History Project | F849.L35 M645 1997 In July of 1955, Joanne Molen's husband was offered a job at Nellis Air Force Base, so they moved from Alturas, California, to Las Vegas. Joanne had worked for Citizens Utilities in Alturas as a Western Union teletype operator, so she got a job with the Southern Nevada Telephone Company. She was the only woman to hold some of the positions she held. She worked for the telephone company, which became Sprint, for more than forty years, ending up as a main engineer. Joanne also was a volunteer and was active in community organizations including the American Ex-Prisoners of War and the Disabled American Veterans organizations, which lead to her being appointed by Governor Richard Bryan to the state of Nevada's Veterans Advisory Commission where she became the first woman to hold the position of chairman for the Commission. She was also voted Women of the Year four times by the local chapter of the American Business Women's Association for her work with veterans. | yes | 0 |
| Monaco, Mario C. | OH-01312 | 03/12/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Education | yes | 1 |
| Monaco, Mario C. | OH-02963 | 2002 April 26 | Public School Principalship Oral History Project | Experiences as public school principal in Southern Nevada. | yes | 1 |
| Monahan, George | OH-01313 | 03/28/1980 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Flood control | no | 1 |
| Mongeot, Jacqueline & Veronica Mongeot Folsom | OH-02802 | 8/16/2016 | BELVOHP | Grew up in France, teenager during the German occupation, moved to Las Vegas with husband who worked at Stardust as special effects person and stage manager. In that capacity, he met entertainers with no place to go for holidays and invited them home where the family was exposed to the Strip performer in a family fashion that was diverse and cosmopolitan. Family changed their home in Paradise Valley to green oasis with gardens, trees, and animals. Now lives in San Diego on the beach in retirement condo purchased before their retirement. | no | 0 |
| Monica, Corbett | 11/28/1992 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Joe Delaney | no | 1 |
