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Founded in 1879 as the Las Vegas Weekly Optic., [2] then owner and editor, Russell A. Kistler, revamped the struggling weekly into a daily paper, calling it the Las Vegas Daily Optic. [3] In 1908, the Las Vegas Daily Optic was renamed the Las Vegas Optic [4] In 2021, the newspaper's owner Landmark Community Newspapers was sold to Paxton Media ...
The Plaza Hotel, built in 1881, on the Plaza of West Las Vegas New Mexico Insane Asylum in Las Vegas, 1904. Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. (The land had previously been granted to Luis María Cabeza de Baca, whose family later received a settlement.) The town was ...
List of free daily newspapers in the United States; List of weekly newspapers in the United States; Circulation. List of international newspapers originating in the United States; List of national newspapers in the United States; List of newspapers in the United States by circulation; List of newspapers serving cities over 100,000 in the United ...
After their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984. [14] By 1988, CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and, by 1992, CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music-cassette ...
Two women who trained at El Grito went on to found their own newspaper, Tierra y Libertad, in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The newspaper's social agenda countered prevailing negative images of Mexican-Americans by publishing cultural materials such as short stories, poetry, songs and recipes.
With only a few thousand copies ever made, the 12-count CD set has since become a collector’s dream. Brand new sets can easily sell for over $200 , with autographed sets commanding much more. 2.
Bell was born in Georgia in 1853 with both father from Virginia, [5] but some historians claimed he was born in Maryland in 1841. [2] [4] He was a miner [7] and Texas Ranger. [8]It is also claimed he was a private in Company D., Frontier Battalion, of Captain Dan W. Roberts, [3] [4] [9] but according to Bill Reynolds he was Joseph William Bell, who was born on 17 May 1849 in Ohio.
The station was assigned the call sign KFUN-FM on May 30, 1980. On September 22, 1980, it changed its call sign to the current KLVF. [3]On October 18, 2002, then-owner KFUN-KLVF Inc. assigned the station's license, along with that of KFUN, to Meadows Media, LLC. [4]