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Recipe boxes: entrees, salads, desserts, drinks, "Vegas Veggies" produced by the Assistance League of Las Vegas, business card file, 1970-1994

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Nat Hart Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 12

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Caesars Atlantic City and Camelot Hotel and Casino: Atlantic City aerial map, site plans, and restaurant architectural drawings, 1980s

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Nat Hart Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Roll 76

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Bacchanal, Caesars Palace: cost of menu item calculations, correspondence, menus, training manual, labor and cover counts, 1981-1982

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Nat Hart Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 03

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Spanish Steps, Caesars Palace: menu item cost calculations, training manual, menus, labor and cover counts, 1981-1982

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Nat Hart Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 03

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Cafe Roma, Caesars Palace: cost of menu item calculations, job manual, labor and cover counts, uniform designs, 1981

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Nat Hart Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 04

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Photographs of Hart, staff, and others, framed, 1970s-1990s

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Nat Hart Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 21, Oversized Box 22

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Transcript of interview with Steven and Wendy Hart by Barbara Tabach, October 23, 2014

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2014-10-23

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Steven Hart was born on April 7, 1946, and moved to Las Vegas as a one-year-old with his parents Nat and Sylvia Hart. After graduating from Las Vegas High School, Steven Hart went through an apprenticeship program to become a journeyman carpenter as his father wanted him to learn all phases of the hotel, restaurant, gaming, and business. Including hot to build and design them. He then enlisted in the United States Navy and joined its construction battalion during the Vietnam War. Upon his return to Las Vegas, Steven followed in his father?s footsteps working in the casino industry. Nat Hart was one of the city?s original celebrity chefs and corporate vice president of food and beverage for Caesars World. Well-known for his restaurants at Caesars Palace and the Desert Inn, and for his popular gourmet cooking school. During his long career as a successful gaming executive, Steven worked at several properties, including the International Hotel as food and beverage controller. He was the vice president of food and beverage for the Del Web Corporation. The assistant corporate food and beverage director at the Argent Corporation as well as the Casino Credit executive and Junket Representative for Caesars World. He worked as executive casino host at Bills Gamblin Hall and Hotel in addition to working as the hotel gaming consultant with Hart Gaming LLC. Steve?s wife and dad also owned Kazuku Yakitori, Ichi Ban Japanese steak house, Ringside Bar and Grill and the World Boxing Hall of Champions Museum. In 1985, Steven married Texas-born Wendy Stark Hart, who is also present during this oral history interview. Wendy Hart also pursued a career as an executive in the food and beverage industry. Together, Steven and Wendy Hat reflect at length about Nat Hart?s successful career, particularly as longtime corporate vice president of food and beverage for Caesars World Inc., and opening many of the company's restaurants at Caesars Palace locally and in Atlantic City. Steve and his dad also put in many restaurants for many of the Las Vegas Strip hotels. They discuss both Nat?s relationships with infamous industry figures, like Frank Rosenthal and Hy Goldbaum, and Nat?s dining endeavors with other industry leaders such as like Kirk Kerkorian and Stu and Cliff Pearman. They also highlight the innovation and creativity that Nat brought to his work. Steven also talks about his own career path, from working small jobs at the hotels while in high school, to his military service and developing construction skills, to learning various aspects of the gaming industry management. He reminisces about his childhood in Las Vegas and involvement with Jewish community, including being the first bar mitzvah at Temple Beth Sholom and later serving as president of Jewish War Veterans, Post 711.

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La Vie en Rose, Desert Inn design binder: correspondence, stock orders, inventories, insurance documents, purchase orders, training guides, 1989

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Nat Hart Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 08

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Caesars Palace Las Vegas: photographs with Harry Wald, Hugh O'Brian, George Burns, Joe Lewis, Jimmy Grippo, and Johnny "Mr. Tarzan" Weissmuller, framed, 1971

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Nat Hart Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Frame 39

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Recipes for Caesars World Resorts including: dressings, marinades, salsa and chutney, seafood dishes, starches and stuffing, pasta, tapas, and brunch, 1970-1994

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Nat Hart Professional Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00419
Collection Name: Nat Hart Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 28

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