Clark County M u s e u m
2012 Calendar
January
T
he Union Pacific Steam Switcher 0-6-0 Engine Number 4442, was given to the City of Las Vegas for display in Fantasy Park in 1958. When the park was replaced by the Grant Sawyer State Building , the engine was offered to the Clark County Museum. Moved onto the museum grounds in the later 1970s, it is an important part of the rolling stock in the museum collection.
Sunday
1
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
25
26
27
28
NEW YEAR’S DAY
M.L.K. Jr. Birthday
22
23
24
29
30
31
Notes
DECEMBER S M T 4 5 6 11 12 13 18 19 20 25 26 27
W T F S 1 2 3 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 17 21 22 23 24 28 29 30 31
FEBRUARY S M T 5 6 7 12 13 14 19 20 21 26 27 28
W T F S 1 2 3 4 8 9 10 11 15 16 17 18 22 23 24 25 29
Did You Know? The Boulder City Depot was the first historic structure to be moved to the Clark County Museum site. The Depot was built in the 1930s to handle passengers and freight for Boulder City and Hoover Dam, but passenger service did not last long as it was not profitable.
February
T
he Candlelight Wedding Chapel was opened in 1966. It was designed based on the Little Church of the West, which in turn was designed based on the Episcopal Church in Sonora, California. It was moved to the museum grounds in 2007, renovated and opened to the public in 2009.
Sunday
Monday
5
6
12
13
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
7
8
9
10
11
14
15
16
17
18
21
22
23
24
25
28
29
St. Valentine’s Day
19
20 President’s Day
26 Notes
27
January
S 1 8 15 22 29
M 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24 31
W 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
F 6 13 20 27
March S 7 14 21 28
S 4 11 18 25
M 5 12 19 26
T 6 13 20 27
W 7 14 21 28
T 1 8 15 22 29
F 2 9 16 23 30
S 3 10 17 24 31
Did You Know? The Candlelight Wedding Chapel holds the record for most weddings performed in a single day at any wedding chapel with 425. Many celebrities married at the Chapel including Sir Michael Caine, Whoopi Goldberg, Bette Midler, Barry White, and Clayton Moore (T.V.’s Lone Ranger).
March
T
he Gazebo at the end of Heritage Street was dedicated in 1994, and the Guild Grove was added in 2000. The Babcock and Wilcox House was built in 1933 in Boulder City. It was housing for employees of the Babcock and Wilcox Company. The house was slated for demolition when the new Post Office was planned for Boulder City in 1987, and was moved to the Clark County Museum. It is restored to the 1930s period.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
4
5
6
11
12
13
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1
2
3
7
8
9
10
14
15
16
17
Daylight Savings begins
18
Saturday
St. Patrick’s Day
19
20
21
22
23
24
28
29
30
31
First day of Spring
25 Notes
26
27
February S M T 5 6 7 12 13 14 19 20 21 26 27 28
W T F S 1 2 3 4 8 9 10 11 15 16 17 18 22 23 24 25 29
April
S 1 8 15 22 29
M 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24
W 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
F 6 13 20 27
S 7 14 21 28
Did You Know? The Babcock and Wilcox Company was in charge of manufacturing the penstocks, which consisted of water pipes for carrying water to and around the turbines in Hoover Dam. They built nearly three miles of specially fabricated pipe for the project. They built twelve of these singlefamily homes.
April
T
he Ghost Town at the Clark County Museum consists of buildings from the Last Frontier Village, and one modern re-creation. The village was a great attraction during the 1950s and 1960s on the Strip. This view shows the museum’s re-created blacksmith shop, and the Old Sweet Shoppe. The buildings were moved from Las Vegas Boulevard to Fort Lucinda, today’s Hacienda Casino near Hoover Dam. They were moved to the museum in 1979.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
Easter
Earth Day
29 Notes
30 March
S 4 11 18 25
M 5 12 19 26
T 6 13 20 27
W 7 14 21 28
T 1 8 15 22 29
May F 2 9 16 23 30
S 3 10 17 24 31
S 6 13 20 27
M 7 14 21 28
T 1 8 15 22 29
W 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24 31
F 4 11 18 25
S 5 12 19 26
Did You Know? ‘Dobie’ Doc, a well-known local character, collected artifacts and buildings from ghost towns in Nevada. His collection was the basis of the Last Frontier Village. The toll cabin from Lamoille, the jail from Tuscarora, and the 1950 Old Sweet Shop were relocated to the museum. The outside jail cell was originally used during Helldorado Days in downtown Las Vegas.
May
T
he first home moved to the Clark County Museum was the Beckley House. This was built in 1912 for $2,500, by Will Beckley for his bride Leva Grimes. The Beckleys lived in the house for the rest of their lives. After Leva moved out of the house in 1978, the family offered the home to the museum and it was moved to the grounds in 1979. Restored over four years, it was opened to the public in 1983.
Sunday
6
13
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1
2
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
11
12
14
15
16
17
18
19
Mother’s Day
Armed Forces Day
20
21
22
23
24
27
28
29
30
31
Memorial Day
Notes
Saturday
April
S 1 8 15 22 29
M 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24
W 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
June F 6 13 20 27
S 7 14 21 28
S 3 10 17 24
M 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
W 6 13 20 27
T 7 14 21 28
F 1 8 15 22 29
S 2 9 16 23 30
25
26
Did You Know? Will Beckley’s Beckley’s Men’s Store was a well-known downtown landmark for many years. Will’s brother Jake Beckley was the passenger on the first airplane to land in Las Vegas, on May 7, 1920. The plane flew over the Beckley home, and Jake dropped a doll to his niece Virginia, who was waiting in the front yard with many of her friends.
June
T
he Henderson Townsite House was one of the original homes built for worker housing in Henderson during World War II. Constructed between 1942 and 1944, these homes came in two and three bedroom versions. The museum example is a three-bedroom, with an added room now used for exhibits about World War II in southern Nevada.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
3
4
5
6
10
11
12
13
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
7
8
9
14
15
16
21
22
23
28
29
30
Flag Day
17
18
19
Father’s Day
24 Notes
20 First day of summer
25
26
27
May
S 6 13 20 27
M 7 14 21 28
T 1 8 15 22 29
W 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24 31
July F 4 11 18 25
S 5 12 19 26
S 1 8 15 22 29
M 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24 31
W 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
F 6 13 20 27
S 7 14 21 28
Did You Know? Henderson was not founded until 1942. Originally called Basic Townsite, it was renamed for Charles Henderson, a former U. S. Senator from Nevada and Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which funded the building of the Basic Magnesium Plant. Though Senator Henderson never visited the town, he did send an autographed photograph to the community.
Clark County Museum
T
he Esslinger family homesteaded land outside Las Vegas in the early 1950s. They moved a house to the property, and built this barn about 1955. The land is located off Charleston Boulevard today, and is considered well inside the urban footprint of the Vegas valley. The barn was moved to the museum grounds in 2002.
January 2013
S 6 13 20 27
M 7 14 21 28
T 1 8 15 22 29
W 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24 31
F 4 11 18 25
S 5 12 19 26
February 2013
july 2013
S 7 14 21 28
M 1 8 15 22 29
T 2 9 16 23 30
W 3 10 17 24 31
T 4 11 18 25
F 5 12 19 26
S 3 10 17 24
M 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
W 6 13 20 27
T 7 14 21 28
F 1 8 15 22
S 2 9 16 23
MArch 2013
august 2013 S 6 13 20 27
S 4 11 18 25
M 5 12 19 26
T 6 13 20 27
W 7 14 21 28
T 1 8 15 22 29
F 2 9 16 23 30
S 3 10 17 24 31
S 3 10 17 24 31
M 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
W 6 13 20 27
T 7 14 21 28
F 1 8 15 22 29
S 2 9 16 23 30
april 2013
september 2013
S 1 8 15 22 29
M 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24
W 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
F 6 13 20 27
S 7 14 21 28
S 7 14 21 28
M 1 8 15 22 29
T 2 9 16 23 30
W 3 10 17 24
T 4 11 18 25
F 5 12 19 26
may 2013 S 6 13 20 27
S 5 12 19 26
M 6 13 20 27
T 7 14 21 28
W 1 8 15 22 29
T 2 9 16 23 30
F 3 10 17 24 31
june 2013 S 4 11 18 25
october 2013
november 2013
S 6 13 20 27
M 7 14 21 28
T 1 8 15 22 29
W 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24 31
F 4 11 18 25
S 5 12 19 26
S 3 10 17 24
M 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
W 6 13 20 27
T 7 14 21 28
F 1 8 15 22 29
S 2 9 16 23 30
S 2 9 16 23 30
M 3 10 17 24
T 4 11 18 25
W 5 12 19 26
T 6 13 20 27
F 7 14 21 28
S 1 8 15 22 29
december 2013
S 1 8 15 22 29
M 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24 31
W 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
F 6 13 20 27
S 7 14 21 28
July
T
he Giles-Barcus House was originally built in Goldfield, Nevada, in 1924. It replaced a home destroyed in the great fire of 1923. Edwin Giles, whose family lived in the home, was a mining engineer in the area. The house was eventually moved to Clark County, where it was relocated to Giles street and became an antique store called The Odd Shop. It was moved to the museum grounds in 1991.
Sunday
1
Monday
Tuesday
2
Wednesday
3
Thursday
4
Friday
Saturday
5
6
7
Independence day
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Notes
June
S 3 10 17 24
M 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
W 6 13 20 27
T 7 14 21 28
August F 1 8 15 22 29
S 2 9 16 23 30
S 5 12 19 26
M 6 13 20 27
T 7 14 21 28
W 1 8 15 22 29
T 2 9 16 23 30
F 3 10 17 24 31
S 4 11 18 25
Did You Know? When built, the Giles-Barcus House was a roomy home for Goldfield. The house used some found materials, including the front door. The door had been made for Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley, where Edith Giles Barcus was able to get the door, and installed it on the house. The windows in the front door are from a Pierce-Arrow automobile in the Goldfield dump.
August
T
he Mobile America exhibit includes this 1948 Spartenette Trailer. It was originally located in Pittman at the Golden Rule Trailer Court, and was moved to the museum and restored in 2001. Many such trailers provided housing for returning GIs in the years after World War II.
Sunday
Monday
5
6
12
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
7
8
9
10
11
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Notes
July
S 1 8 15 22 29
M 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24 31
W 4 11 18 25
T 5 12 19 26
September F 6 13 20 27
S 7 14 21 28
S M 2 3 9 10 16 17 23/30 24
T 4 11 18 25
W 5 12 19 26
T 6 13 20 27
F 7 14 21 28
S 1 8 15 22 29
Did You Know? Aircraft manufacturing firms like the Spartan Aircraft Company had plenty of work during World War II when the United States was the “arsenal of democracy.” With the war’s end, Spartan Aircraft owner J. Paul Getty shifted the company into the trailer business. Spartan Trailers were known as some of the finest on the road.
September
T
he Clark County Museum’s main building was opened in 1990. It houses an exhibit following the history of Clark County from prehistoric times to today in the Anna Roberts Parks gallery, and a small changing exhibits gallery. The museum store, and collections storage are also in this building.
Sunday
2
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
13
14
15
19
20
21
22
Labor day
9
Patriot day
16
17
18
First day of Autumn
23
24
25
26
27
30 Notes
August
S 5 12 19 26
M 6 13 20 27
T 7 14 21 28
W 1 8 15 22 29
T 2 9 16 23 30
October F 3 10 17 24 31
S 4 11 18 25
S 7 14 21 28
M 1 8 15 22 29
T 2 9 16 23 30
W 3 10 17 24 31
T 4 11 18 25
F 5 12 19 26
S 6 13 20 27
28
29
Did You Know? The Clark County Museum comprises thirty acres of historic buildings, displays and nature areas. The Clark County Museum Guild is the museum’s support arm, helping in bad times and good. Most of the buildings in this calendar have benefitted from the support of the Clark County Museum Guild.
October
T
he P. J. Goumond house was built in the early 1930s for Jake Hagenson, and purchased by Goumond in 1935. Designed by the architectural firm of Warner and Nordstrom, it featured a full basement, rock surface treatments, and a Tudor revival design. It was moved to the museum grounds in 1984, but not opened until 1999.
Sunday
7
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
11
12
13
Columbus day
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
Nevada day
28
29
30
31 Halloween
Notes
September S M 2 3 9 10 16 17 23/30 24
T 4 11 18 25
W 5 12 19 26
T 6 13 20 27
F 7 14 21 28
November S 1 8 15 22 29
S 4 11 18 25
M 5 12 19 26
T 6 13 20 27
W 7 14 21 28
T 1 8 15 22 29
F 2 9 16 23 30
S 3 10 17 24
Did You Know? Pros J. Goumond was the successful owner of the Boulder Club, a gambling club which boasted the first neon sign in Las Vegas. He also owned Tule Springs, a divorce ranch north of Las Vegas. The home is restored to the late 1950s period, showing what it may have looked like during the later years Goumond lived there.
November
T
he Donald W. Reynolds Print Shop is a re-creation of an old west newspaper office. Designed by museum staff, it was funded by a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, who also provided much of the printing equipment in the building. The press, paper cutter, and folder were all used by the Henderson Home News until the 1960s.
Sunday
4
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
5
6
7
8
9
10
12
13
14
15
16
17
20
21
22
23
24
Daylight Savings ends
11 Veterans day
18
Veterans day OBSV
19
Thanksgiving day
25 Notes
26
27
28 October
S 7 14 21 28
M 1 8 15 22 29
T 2 9 16 23 30
W 3 10 17 24 31
T 4 11 18 25
F 5 12 19 26
29
30
December S 6 13 20 27
S M T 2 3 4 9 10 11 16 17 18 23/30 24/31 25
W 5 12 19 26
T 6 13 20 27
F 7 14 21 28
S 1 8 15 22 29
Did You Know? This is the only new building on Heritage Street at the Clark County Museum. It was built in 1984, and houses early printing equipment. Many newspaper writers in Nevada had great senses of humor. Humorists like C. C. Goodwin, Fred Hart, and, most notably, Mark Twain, came out of the editorial traditions of Nevada.
December
Y
es, it does snow in Clark County. On December 17, 2008, over seven inches of snow fell at the Clark County Museum. For the first time in many years, the museum was closed because of snow. However, some museum staff stayed on and caught some of the charm of snow in the desert.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
1
First day of winter
23
24
30 31
New Year’s Eve
Notes
25
26
27
28
christmas
November
S 4 11 18 25
M 5 12 19 26
T 6 13 20 27
W 7 14 21 28
T 1 8 15 22 29
F 2 9 16 23 30
January 2013 S 3 10 17 24
S 6 13 20 27
M 7 14 21 28
T 1 8 15 22 29
W 2 9 16 23 30
T 3 10 17 24 31
F 4 11 18 25
S 5 12 19 26
29
Did You Know? The Clark County Museum system now consists of three museums. The Searchlight Museum, located in the Searchlight Community Center, was built with help from the Searchlight Museum Guild. In 1993, the Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum was created with the Clark County Department of Aviation, with exhibits in McCarran Intl. Airport, the North Las Vegas Air Terminal, and the Henderson Executive Airport.
Calendar design by SabreDesign.com
Clark County Museum
Clark County Museum 1830 S. Boulder Hwy. • Henderson, NV 89002 702-455-7955
Clark County Museum Guild www.clarkcountymuseumguild.com email: ccmuseumguild@gmail.com
Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pages/Clark-County-Museum Calendar Photos courtesy of Clark County Museum Staff
The Clark County Museum is a part of the Clark County Parks and Recreations Dept.
The Clark County Museum Guild works to preserve Nevada’s history through the support of the Clark County Museum.