Las Vegas' Golden Era: Memoirs 1954-1974

Over the years, while still living in Las Vegas, friends and acquaintances would, after finding we were old-time show folk, ask what it was like living in those early times.
Much later in the mid-nineties after relocating to Sedona Arizona where, while running our intimate Wishing Well Bed and Breakfast, guests would inquire into the history of the myriad of autographed, framed, glossy photos of stars of stage, screen and radio mounted on our entry wall, having been accumulated over those decades in Las Vegas, and which we felt added a bit of whimsy to our inn.
In time we met the curator of early Las Vegas at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas to whom we took from our personal archives many photos, programs and mementos that we felt otherwise would be abandoned or lost. Upon receiving these treasures, she was most gracious and grateful, adding queries of her own of that glittering era.
During our short visit, a colleague was introduced who happened to overhear part of our historical retrospectives and eagerly sought a verbal record of those times to be set up at our convenience when next in Las Vegas. Later still, retired and back in Sedona among neighbors, friends and acquaintances, the interest in old sin city ran unabated along with the continual intimation of properly documenting these memoirs.