Vintage Sahara Casino Las Vegas Kay Starr Post Card 8"x 5" :E

Description: Vintage Sahara Casino Las Vegas Kay Starr Post Card 8"x 5" Preowned in Good Condition, Stored in Protective Plastic Sleeve. Post Card has been folded in half, with a visible crease in the middle. Unposted. Sahara Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada. It is owned and operated by the Meruelo Group. The hotel has 1,616 rooms,[1] and the casino contains 50,662 square feet (4,706.7 m2).[2] The Sahara anchors the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip, at the corner of Sahara Avenue. It is the site of the northernmost station of the Las Vegas Monorail. Kay Starr was born Katherine Laverne Starks on a reservation in Dougherty, Oklahoma.[2] Her father, Harry, was an Iroquois native American; her mother, Annie, was of mixed Irish and Native American heritage.[2] When her father got a job installing water sprinkler systems for the Automatic Sprinkler Company, the family moved to Dallas. Her mother raised chickens, whom Starr serenaded in the coop. Her aunt Nora was impressed by her 7-year-old niece's singing and arranged for her to sing on a Dallas radio station, WRR. Starr finished 3rd one week in a talent contest, and placed first every week thereafter. She was given a 15-minute radio show. She sang pop and country songs with a piano accompaniment. By age 10 she was making $3 a night, generous pay during the Great Depression. When Starr's father changed jobs, the family moved to Memphis, where she continued performing on the radio. She sang Western swing music, still mostly a mix of country and pop. While working for Memphis radio station WMPS, misspellings in her fan mail inspired her and her parents to change her name to "Kay Starr". See Photos for Full Details.

Price: 4 USD

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

End Time: 2025-01-04T20:38:05.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.63 USD