Nevada Yesterdays
History and folklore of Nevada, written by Associate Professor Michael Green of UNLV, and narrated by former Senator Richard Bryan. Supported by Nevada Humanities and dedicated to the memory of historian Frank Wright. (All segments prior to August 2003 were written by Wright.)
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This year we mark a golden anniversary: The Union Plaza opened on July 2, 1971. It has quite a history … and so does its location.The address Number One… -
This year, there’s a diamond jubilee going on just north of our studios. It’s the seventy-fifth birthday of the City of North Las Vegas, incorporated on… -
The first time I served in the legislature in 1969, I got to be in the old state capitol building. The new one opened in 1971. So the new one is turning… -
This aired in Feb. 2021.This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of those odd laws that makes Nevada all the more interesting. It made prostitution… -
In 1965, only one state had no community colleges: Nevada. That soon changed. And 2021 marks the golden anniversary of the College of Southern Nevada and…
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Half a century ago, Nevada took an important step in the right direction with a new law: the Fair Housing Act of 1971.Congress had passed a similar bill…
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Phyllis McGuire died at the end of 2020, and with her died a lot of the history of show business, Las Vegas society, and, yes, organized crime.She and her… -
They called him the Westside Slugger. The nickname fit Joe Neal. He could throw a punch, but he also could take one.Neal was Nevada’s first Black state…
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This year, Nevada and the rest of the country have been commemorating a turning point in our history. A century ago, in 1920, the 19th Amendment became…
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Recently, we lost Lloyd George, a longtime federal judge for whom one of the downtown federal buildings is named. We also lost a pillar of the Las Vegas…
