Oral History Interviews
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| Narrator | Collection # | Date | Project | Content | Transcript | Tapes |
| Tiberti, Jelindo Angelo | OH-03173 | 2017 April 18 | Building Las Vegas Oral History Project | F849.L35 T52 2017 Youngest child of pioneer Las Vegas contractor J.A. Tiberti, Jelindo was born in Las Vegas and raised on Fifteenth Street in a traditional household where the daughters did inside chores and the sons did outside chores. Although suffering from dyslexia, he graduated from University of Southern California in four years. After graduating and marrying in 1982, he returned to Las Vegas and in 1983 took over Tiberti Fence Company. which he ran for thirty years. He sold the company and retired in 2013 but six months later began anew with Red Star Fence Company. He speaks to the ubiquity of commercial and industrial fencing to the built environment. | yes | 0 |
| Tiberti, Renaldo | OH-02703 | 5/24/2016 | Building Las Vegas | Renaldo, CEO of Tiberti Construction, talks about his father, company founder and mother, who ran the home with equal finesse. Truly a family business, he talked about the family's beginning business enterprise, his involvement beginning at 15, and his own real estate business that used investors in a novel way. | no | 0 |
| Tijerina Revilla, Anita | OH-03492 | 2018 October 09 | Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project | Dr. Anita Tijerina Revilla is an associate professor for the College of Liberal Arts in the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies. She is a Queer Chicana scholar whose work has focused on student activism, chicana feminism, joteria, and the Latinx educational pipeline. Anita was born and raised outside of San Antonio, Texas on a ranch with her two siblings. After her father, Luis Arce Revilla's death, Anita and her family moved to San Antonio where her mother, Delia, took on the role of matriarch and served as a security guard. Throughout her youth, Anita recalls her mother's deep belief in her and advocacy for her educational success. She credits much of her success to her mother's support and unrelenting efforts for assuring that she had access to the resources that she needed and eventually, encouraged her to pursue a college education. She would go on to attend Princeton University, receive her Masters from Columbia University, and acquire her doctorate from UCLA. During her time at Princeton, Anita shares how her critical consciousness was developed and her passion for social justice was born. Later as a doctoral student at UCLA, her adviser and Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholar, Dr. Daniel Solorzano, would inspire in her a pedagogical approach to teaching that centers her positionality and Chicana feminist perspective. When Dr. Revilla first arrived to Las Vegas, she realized that there were not many Latinx faculty at UNLV, but found an active and vocal Latinx student population that encouraged her to move here and make UNLV her academic home. Dr. Revilla is a key figure in the Latinx and Queer community in Las Vegas advocating for social justice, equity, and disrupting oppressive systems to increase educational access for students. She played a key role in organizing and documenting the Mayday March in 2006, Las Vegas' largest Latinx-centered protest, through her research. The protest would lead to the creation of the Office of Student Diversity and Services at UNLV. She regularly serves as an adviser to several UNLV organizations and diversity committees on campus. Currently, she teaches courses that challenge racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia to create a more socially conscious and just world. Subjects: Chicana, Queer, UNLV, Social Justice, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies | no | 0 |
| Tillis, Mel | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 2 | ||
| Tillotson, John | 03/21/2004 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Cork Proctor | no | 3 | |
| Tillotson, Johnny | 11/17/1979 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Arnold Shaw | no | 1 | |
| Tilman, Rick | OH-01827 | 02/28/1979 or 02/20/1979 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada history | no | 1 |
| Tilton, J. Harold | OH-01828 | 02/21/1972 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | no | 1 | |
| Tinnell, Marilyn | OH-02632 | 2012 June 19 | The Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project | no | 0 | |
| Tinney, Alan | OH-02403 | 2013 March 08 | History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada | Tinney joined Mercy Ambulance in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1974. In 1976 he finished EMT training at Clark County Community College. In 1986 he finished an engineering degree and retired from EMS. | no | 0 |
| Tiny Tim | 06/15/1990 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 | |
| Tobias, Henry | 01/13/1988 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 | |
| Tobin, Nadine | OH-01829 | 02/10/1979 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Las Vegas history | no | 1 |
| Tobler, Fenton L. | OH-02973 | 2002 April 24 | Public School Principalship Oral History Project | Experiences as public school principal in Southern Nevada. | yes | 0 |
| Tobman, Herb | OH-01830 | 04/23/1986 and 03/17/1981 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Eyeculture and Execitive Owner/President | yes | 2 |
| Tobman, Jean; Janie Moore; Marilyn Moran | OH-01831 | 11/05/2013 | West Charleston - Ward 1 | Jean was interviewed along with two of her daughters about living in the Ward 1 section of early Las Vegas. They revisited their lifestyle, riding horses from that area to the early Strip (Silver Slipper) through the desert, and work in casinos. | no | 0 |
| Todd, Faye | OH-01832 | 10/15/1996 | Women in Gaming & Entertainment | F850.N4 T63 1998 | yes | 2 |
| Toland, Helen A. (Anderson) | OH-01833 | 02/21/2007 | History of the 1970's | F850.N4 G47 2012 First female AfAm principal with CCSD | yes | 2 |
| Tomany, Ed | OH-02407 | 2013 July 24 | History of Emergency Medical Services in Nevada | Tomany received first aid training from the US Forest Service and the US Army in the 1960s. In 1968 he started running on Tonopah, Nevada's ambulance service. Though he had to stop running in the 1970s, he restarted his ambulance career in 1985 and received his EMT certification that year. | no | 0 |
| Tomiyasu, Nanyu | OH-01834 | 03/11/1974 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Family History Union Pacific Farming | no | 2 |
| Tomiyasu, Nanyu | OH-01835 | 04-12-1977 | Ralph Roske Interviews | F849.L35 T66 1977 Local history. | yes | 1 |
| Tomiyasu, Nanyu | OH-01836 | 03-11-1978 | Ralph Roske Interviews | F849.L35 T66 1978 Life of a Las Vegas old-timer. Farming. | yes | 1 |
| Tomlin | OH-01837 | 06/13/1996 | BOYER EARLY LAS VEGAS OHP | yes | 1 | |
| Tommy | OH-02056 | 04/28/1998 | Gay Archives-Dennis McBride | yes | 6 | |
| Tonemah, Chris | OH-02733 | 2015 June 08 | Table Games Management Oral History Project | Four Queens, MGM, Caesars Palace, Venetian/Palazzo | yes | 0 |
| Topacio, Gerardo; Topacio, Philomena; Prezgay, Teresa | OH-03426 | 2018 April 13 | Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project | Gerardo Topacio remembers the Philippines on December 7, 1941, when it was bombed by the Japanese (Same day as Pearl Harbor). Eventually, he and his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Redwood City, California. He trained in communications equipment maintenance and later moved to Las Vegas and worked at the Nevada Test Site for EG&G. Philomenia Topacio worked in the hotel industry and was a member of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226. The couple was joined by their mathematician daughter, Teresa Prezgay who teaches at the Las Vegas Academy and has served as a volunteer for Girl Scouts for 20 years. She promotes the sciences and math to girls who are seeking scholarly challenges. Subjects: Manila, Bhatan death march, Ampax, EG&G, Nevada Test Site, Culinary Workers Union, math, Girl Scouts | no | 0 |
| Torjman, David & Iris | OH-02527 | Nov. 12, 2015 | Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project | The Torjman's met in Las Vegas; she was from the Bronx and he was from Fez, Morocco. David had been hired to be a Jewish educator for Temple Beth Sholom. The Sisterhood at Temple hosted a wedding reception for them. David also talks about working as a dealer and investing in land. | yes | 0 |
| Torme, Mel | 12/30/1994 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Joe Delaney | no | 1 | |
| Torres, David | OH-02724 | 2015 May 22 | Table Games Management Oral History Project | El Cortez; Barbary Coast; Stardust; Rio; Palms; M; Cosmopolitan | yes | 0 |
| Torres-Cortez, Ricardo | OH-03608 | 2091 May 07 | Remembering 1 October Oral History Project & Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project | Born in Mexico, came to live in Las Vegas in 1985. Graduate of UNLV in Journalism and a reporter of Public Safety for the Las Vegas Sun. Ricardo covered the 1 October shooting, the killing of two police officers and other traumatic news of the community. Subjects: Tropicana Hotel, 1 October, Officer Charleston Hartfield, Latino in Las Vegas, El Paso, Mexico F850.S75 T67 2019 | yes | 0 |
| Toston, Gertrude | OH-01838 | 07/21/2006 | UNLV Oral History Project @ Fifty | LD3745 .T67 2007 Gertrude Toston was a student at UNLV in the 1960s. she worked as a customer service representative for Western Airlines for 27 years and then went back to UNLV to work on her master's degree in special education. She worked as a graduate teaching assistant and student teacher advisor at UNLV and now works at Brinley Junior High | yes | 1 |
| Toston, Roosevelt | OH-01839 | 07/11/2006 | AfAm & Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral history Project | CT247 .T67 2007 Roosevelt Toston moved to Las Vegas in the 1950s. He worked at the Test Site, for Bell Telephone of Nevada, as a television anchorman and cameraman, and for the Convention and Visitors Authority to bring conventions to Las Vegas. He also talks about ways African American entrepreneurs might get involved in different aspects of the convention business | yes | 3 |
| Toston, Roosevelt | OH-01365 | 2013 October 19 | AfAm & Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral history Project | F850.A N4A T67A 2012; Interviewed by Channelle Pickens | yes | 0 |
| Towers, Ricky Lee | OH-03181 | 2017 May 02, 2017 May 24 | African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project | Ricky Towers was born and reared in the Highland Square area of the Westside where two-parent families flourished in a prosperous atmosphere. Session 1: Discusses the Jackson Street business corridor, Moulin Rouge, Lubertha Johnson, and relationship with Al Sachs. Worked as a dealer at the downtown Fremont Hotel Casino. Session 2: Added details about his work in the casino industry - Boyd Gaming and Caesars. Participated in executive training at Boyd but refused to work in other locations in the country such as Mississippi so moved to Caesars where he has held positions in community event planning and other public relations assignments. Spoke of plans to re-energize the Historic Westside. | no | 0 |
| Townsend, Arthur | OH-01840 | 03/07/1980 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Nevada and Las Vegas history | no | 1 |
| Townsend, Brigham | 11/10/1986 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Bill Willard | no | 1 | |
| Tracht, Violet | OH-01841 | 01/09/2004 | BOYER EARLY LAS VEGAS OHP | yes | 1 | |
| Trant, William | OH-01842 | 03/23/1986 | Local Oral History Project-Roske | Electric contractor | no | 1 |
| Trapletti, Edea | OH-03435 | 2010 June 21 | Voices of the historic John S. Park Neighborhood | : Oral history interview with Edea Trapletti conducted by Claytee D. White on June 21, 2010 for the Voices of the Historic John S. Park Neighborhood Oral History Project. In this interview, Trapletti discusses her early life in Trieste, Italy. She talks about coming to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1950, her initial reaction to the city, and building a home in the John S. Park neighborhood. Trapletti describes the community in the area, religious organizations, and social life at the time. Lastly, Trapetti discusses the future of the John S. Park neighborhood and the other neighborhoods near downtown Las Vegas. | no | 0 |
| Travelena, Fred | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 2 | ||
| Travolta, Joey | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment | no | 1 | ||
| Tredwell, Glenn | OH-02626 | March 3 & April 12, 2016 | Southern Nevada Jewish Community Digital Heritage Project | F850.J5 T74 2014 Nephew to Cliff Perlman, owner of Caesars, moved to Las Vegas in 1976 to work for his uncle. Founder of local Spina Bifida association. Stories of working for his uncles at Lums in Florida and Caesars. | yes | 0 |
| Treiner's | 06/19/1995 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Joe Delaney | no | 1 | |
| Trenier, Claude | OH-01843 | 1997 February 13 | Las Vegas Womens Oral History Project | Black Entertainers in Las Veags history | no | 2 |
| Trenier, Claude | 03/26/1993 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Joe Delaney | no | 1 | |
| Trinter, Dan | 10/14/1994 | Arnold Shaw | Entertainment. Interviewer: Joe Delaney | no | 1 | |
| Triolo, Don | OH-02416 | 1/20/2015 | BELVOHP | Growing up in Las Vegas as the son of an entertainer, schooling, horseback riding, Helldorado's significance, Fremont Street and downtown, becoming a dancer, dressing hair for the stars and the ordinary. | no | 0 |
| Triolo, Don | OH-02475 | 2013-05-14 | Friends of Red Rock Oral History Project | Parents lived in Calico Basin in the 1950s; Blue Diamond town and school; Calico Basin; Bar Nothing Ranch; Buster Wilson | yes | 0 |
| Triolo, Don Carl | OH-01844 | April 24, 2005 | 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 |
| Trippy, Don | OH-02484 | 10/21/2015 | BELVOHP | Las Vegas Desert Sculptors. Don served as president of organization for many years becoming a member in 1989, the second year of the 501(c)3's existence. Members created on the famous eagle at Nellis AFB, the bust of Lorenzi in the park by that name where the organization was housed for 5 years, and many other pieces throughout the city. Donated documents and photos to Special Collections. Desert Sculptors ceased operations in 2015. | no | 0 |
