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hello, las vegas and people all over the world , this is madam Vanessa, las vegas talk of the town 1970’s, I open my heart as writer and researcher and woman biographer of las vegas in the 1970’s. I share my life and my experiences of living in las vegas ,
in the 1970’s as a hooker also with a message to help all women get off the street.
I started my life in las vegas, nv in august1971. living at unlv Tonopah hall dorm and I lived on an all women’s floor and I also studied psychology at unlv then.
come , walk back to the streets in las vegas in the 1970’s, with me.
From our panorama paper , that was delivered in the 1970’s for 52 weeks ,starting at 6 dollars.
our ads I write from this paper re at our Maryland square where our special place wonderworld across from the blvd mall by Maryland pkwy and twain blvd.
at 3661 Maryland pkwy at our Maryland square shopping center. in the year 1970
we have a clothing store called t.nt.- the nu trend, unisex
custom leather, jakckets , skirts, belts, purses, our headbands , then and sashes, flair pants- mod body – jewelry in the paper there is a 10 per cent off coupon for purchase at this place, open 11am-til 9am
Also at this time we had another clothing store called , call it macaroni,, that had mod clothes and pants for men. this store call it macaroni moved to our las vegas plaz shopping mall in 1973 across from our stardust.
about our Maryland square, this place was still triving from across the street from our blvd mall in the 1980’s with our wonderworld , that will be a payless soon, our bar the serene room is still busy in the 1990’s our Shelley’s coin store is still here, our special deli sandwich called 300 sandwiches is still here and had great sandwiches, our al Philips the cleaner is here, we have nail salon, furniture stores, I want to remember our wonderworld in the 1980’s for a post office place, a place to buy makeup, slot machines and a junk food snak bar and a good size pharmacy.
in the 1990;s we have a nice used clothing place by our junior league, I want to remember we also a big man clothing store.
I just liked walking to our wonderworld and our blvd mall in the year 1971-1973 on the weekends after classes at unlv. yes I still have my pretty jewelry box from wonder world, my checks with my 1970’s photo of me taken at our blvd mall , the checks are from our bank then first national bank, on mayrland and twian , now the bank is wells fargo.
I also kept my 1970’s minor sheriff’s card. that was yellow with a finger print and stamped minor , that I misplaced as soon as I got back to las vegas , in 1985, oh well, I also still have an orange felt piggy bank from our special place called Woolworth’s from our blvd mall and a brass wedding ring I bought there in `1973 with my best friend madam dee then.
then I have some pretty pink plates and other glassware from an antique store from boulder hi way , that I bought my boyfriend dan lee in 1973.
so I shared with all my special 1970’s madam Vanessa treaures from las vegas.
This weekend, I am trying to getting over my disappointment of not getting a writer’s grant thru our Nevada arts council , in the state of Nevada, I guess I was ineligible as a writer and I worked over 1o hours applying and writing for this grant on line and I worked very hard writing my biography for over 2 years now. I still need funding to write my real life story on this blog and put a book together about my life living in las vegas, I really want to apply again for another’s writer’s grant and get funding.
thank you, madam Vanessa,
I will share more stories about my life and walk back with me to streets of las vegas, nv in the 1970’s
this is madam Vanessa, signing off.
hello this is madam Vanessa, las vegas talk of the town 1970′,s
I always say I have many stories of my life living in las vegas, first as a college student studying psychology at unlv and living at our only dorm Tonopah, and on only women’s 6th floor of the dorm and our student dining was at our bookstore at unlv, and when I was at our special collections libraby at james Dickinson libraby in 1998, I asked for a photo of our student dining hall for the dorm and I was told there was no photos of this. I would like to research at our special collections, now for about our history of our judy bailey theatre , since my boyfriend dan lee , was in our first play at this theatre in may of 1972, that w ould be fun to find this old unlv student newspaper.
The ads from our panorama paper are from the year 1970
this ad is a political ad and it is written retain james Kelly as our judge , in the north las vegas town ship, which includes north las vegas sunrise manor, east college and wherry precincts
In our panorama paper in the 1970 , steve miller who became our assemblyman, later on in las vegas, had a column as a writer in this paper , his column was aware of the times
and I just zerox the ads I places I would be at and maybe find a few people I knew then as a hooker in 1972. I have Xeroxed copies of the aware of the time, because I liked all our history of shopping and dining in las vegas in 1972–1973, since I lived in las vegas for 2 years.
my good friend dino from our la concha motel who was a hairdresser in the 1970’s, set me up on a blind date to meet the day bartender ron at our very fancy and well known 1970’s restaurant and bar our copper cart, which was right next to our la concha motel and our el morocco motel and coffee shop, with a slot area , this was all next to our Riviera .
in 1998 I would see our copper cart with the big yellow booths and the old copper cart bar which was now a sushi bar. our la concha motel beauty salon where my friend dino worked was on the outside and looked old in 1998. these properties were owned by the doumanis and our neon museum took the la concha motel as their office maybe in 2000. I would like to see this at the neon museum and buy souvenirs saying la concha motel
and there has to be someone else in las vegas that has stories like me of our copper cart and the la concha motel now.
in 1972 I met bartender ron for lunch at our copper cart. my new friend ron was 24 years young , tall and had black hair.
when I met ron , we talked about where we both lived and we both lived in our little studios at our off campus apts at 777 naples by our jungle club.
ron knew I was dino’s girl as a hooker,
my friend dino was very good to me , he gave my tel # to all his friends that I could party with for sex and money. I never had to sleep with dino or give a cut of my dates. all dino wanted from mewas give his friends a good time in bed and be nice to his friends which I was then as a young woman being a callgirl in 1972-1973.
so when I met ron at the bar of the copper cart. ron ordered me a coke to drink and I had the best monte cristo club sandwich ever and ron treated me to lunch.
and since we were neighbors we could become friends and maybe hangout with his other friends.
one nite on Saturday, iwent our with ron and his female friend that lived at our apts
we all had dinner together at our clean downtown and not crowded then, and walked thru our smaller casinos then. which I always believe was safe then to walk around downtown with people at nite.
Our copper cart restaurant was a well known place with very good food and know for good prime rib dinners.
here is another
cute ad from our panorama paper
rose bowl
las vegas newest and most modern racebook,
with some old familiar faces, : Francis, Al. ted, tommy and mat. this photo , I guess is the men who worked at this small race book. in 1985 I saw many small sports books and I applied at this place I guess for a waitress job, that I did not get then, it was meant for me to get hired at our dunes casino in the summer of 1986, and I really loved my job at the dunes as a cocktail server for 4 and years with all my great friend then.
I want to write about one more date with my neighbor ron who was our bartender at our copper cart in 1972, 1973.
thank you , this is madam Vanessa signing off
this rose bowl ad also say wagering on all sporting events, 3203 s. las vegas blvd, on the strip between the desert inn and sands hotel
hello this is madam Vanessa, las vegas talk of the town 1970’s,
I will be sharing two more stories before I start journaling my book that I am going to write to share my experiences of being a 19year old call girl in las vegas in 1972 to always help women get off the street. and I write today if I am to write my life story with all my memories of living in our city of las vegasin 1972-1973 as a prostitute then, I cannot share my special paper scrapbook, I put together in 1998 of many Xeroxed ads from our las vegas gossip paper the panorama that cost 6.00 for 52 weeks.
here are some special ads from our panorama paper
it says in this paper in 1970
Hostess Charee Seale works at the Lost knight lounge at the royal where the group wee five performed there, my friend and madam dee would go to this club at nite in 1973 an yes I was asked to leave one nite with my fake I.d this was a cute place then. this is now our Barrymore restaurant on convention ctr drive.
the next ad says
Birthday girl- Paula was feted at restaurant Ciopino’s by her husband Eddie kiefaver who hosted a huge gathering at Pasquale’s Pasta parlor and I have no idea where these places where then or now.
in the 1990’s we have some singles gathering for single people, in las vegas , nv
Our pretty place café Nicole, has the group funtimers , that I attend with my best friend charlotte in the early 1990’s on w. sahara road after bingo palace, I dined a t café Nicole with in the early 1990’s with very good diners with my date terry.
our bagel ball that still has a xmas eve dance, now use to meet for this fun event at our beach on convention center by our piero’s place, and the beach is an empty lot now.
A very fun place to meet and dance was our hop on e. Tropicana road before spencer which was here in around 1989= maybe till 1998, this place played 50 and 60 music and lots of parties there and yes I worked there as a cocktail server in 1990 and I remember going there many times from 1990 till 1998 and having lots of fun there then.
we also had a place called kiefer’s on harmon where I think aria is now.
kiefer was up on a high floor in the late 1990’s and you could see the view of the strip this was a pretty place then. one time on flamingo and pecos there was a singles event after thanksgiving, that fun that I attended in 1992.
our single central of Nevada was a fun dating service that lasted thru 1999, that I joined and probably did not meet anyone special.
I met more more guys to date in 1998 when I tended bar at the ram’s head by our stratosphere, plus I just gave up on my writing of my 1970’s autobiographical book , which I called a 1970’s novel then, to say the word I am a biographer in 2013 for my written radio scripts was quite a change for me.
And I say no one would believe me that I dated an past casino owner executive and my friend that I dated worked very hard for this man. and also no one would belive me also in 1998 and 1999 that I dated a good guy who was a board of regent at unlv.
I wanted to write when I wrote for the first time in 1998, I met people at this time who knew my friends in the 1970’s like at our copper cart and in may of 1998 this would be my last time to see my best friend bruce yates from 1972 and I spend special time with bruce in 1998 and I remeet my best friend bruce with friend mike smith in 1986 at our cooler lounge which is still here at e. lakemeade blvd and n.Decatur ave.
spending time with bruce was always special to me and still is.
and I write now that if I call bruce now with all the things I have opened up as a writer I would just cry talking to bruce, just like I told him on the phone in 2013 , I have a radio show about my life and I cried very hard talking to bruce and remembering our special time together as best friends starting in October in 1972 and ending in july of 1973, which was not true.
this is madam Vanessa signing off today
I have lots of stories to share with you.
thank you- madam vanessa
hello las vegas and all over the world, this is madam Vanessa, las vegas talk of the town 1970’s
our las vegas population in the 1970’s was 307,ooo, people ,when I lived here also, in 1980 ‘s our population was 528,000 people, and in 1985 when madam Vanessa came back to town with a las vegas madam Vanessa, reference we had maybe 700,00 people living in las vegas then.
In the 1970’s our hotels supported charities. governor mike cahlan served his term from 1971-1979, then bob list was our governor from 1979-1983,
Oran gregson was our las vegas city major from 1959-1975, then mr briare, was our major of the city of the las vegas in 1975-1983.
in 1979, mr . bob stupak opened our busy casino vegas world,
our union plaza I belive opened in 1971 and opened as the world’s largest casino and hotel in downtown, las vegas, so I say as madam Vanessa, my friend , madam dee and I visit this place on a Saturday, in 1973 to hear a band play music with a stage over the bar with cocktails in the afternoon, always. and when I work there as a cocktail server this stage is there at this casino was closed then.
our hospitals then are sunrise,
north las vegas hospital, women’s hospital at e.sahara and burnham
and umc
where a very kind and good doctor, named Dr, Maurice niebaum, started his residency as a internist in 1966
in 1977 harry reid was our lieutenant governor, Jim santini and David Towel was our congressmen.
Myron Leavitt was our commissioner from 1975-1978.
Our criminal judge , judge Robert legakes was our judge from 1972-1983.
and Tony l. Abbantangelo was a city attorney then
when I was a cocktail server at our dunes casino where our Bellagio hotel is now, I worked in our pretty ricks lounge.
our special woman singers , then were Darcy Spears,, peggy sparks, Diane Ellis,
Barbara ,Graham, who first taught music in school and then became a singer at our dunes lounge and also sang at the casino’s lounge in atlantic city and at our rio. and a singer of the name darcus speed, sang with her pretty voice at the dunes and went to our golden nugget
and a very pretty and young laura resnick , daughter of our casino host ash resnick sang with great voice at our dunes rick ‘s lounge before 199o.
From our panorama ad with our las vegas plaza shopping center built in spring of 1973, yes I do have a photo of the night gallery bar from the outside taken in 1998 with the front outside of silver city.
in this shopping center in 1973 inside the we have Lloyd’s bootery- upper level south= men’s and women’s fine shoes,Deliso dubs shoes and Nettelon French Shriner-3025s. lv blvd
another store there is garwood – tapes and record. radios, tv accessproes- upper level south . I would liked to seen this record store and maybe I did. One of my last date’s with marlin b- the 21dealer from our Tropicana in 1973 was walking around this cute mall with him and his 3 children.
I close today I have many stories to share with about my life in the 1970’s living in las vegas, ,nv
in my message I say today
there is always a way out of of leaving the life of a seller of sex, if you sincerely want to get out and maybe you have your inner strength to say goodbye to this risky lifestyle of being an illegal prostitute. and I say to all of you today , and please remember there is always hope to get back on the right path of life.
I am here to help all of you and I sincerely share my experiences of being a callgirl when I was 18 years young in 1972, with honest messages to help all of you get off the street.
thank you, madam Vanessa,
this is madam Vanessa, signing off today.
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