Steve Miller (columnist)
Steve Miller (born c. 1944) is a former Las Vegas city councilman and currently a columnist for AmericanMafia.com,[1] an online magazine.
Early life and career
[edit]Miller was born in California and raised in Las Vegas. He graduated in 1962 from Las Vegas High School.
While still a teenager, Miller and partner Keith Austin built and operated the Teenbeat Club.[2] That led to an early career as a broadcaster from 1962 through 1966 when he and Austin hosted the Teenbeat Club television program each Saturday on KLAS.[3] In 1998, Miller was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame.[4] Austin eventually moved to Southern California, where he continued his career in the recording industry.[3] On May 1, 2011, Miller and Austin were inducted into the Las Vegas Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as concert promoters and founders of the Teenbeat Club.[5][6]
Miller has been credited with inventing the casino dice clock for his father's Las Vegas-based souvenir manufacturing business.[7] The clocks were made in the USA until Miller's father, Hal, died and Miller and his mother closed the Miller Novelty Company in 1987, after 60 years in business.[citation needed]
From 1974 through 1982, Miller was a certified flight instructor who taught at McCarran International Airport.[8]
Miller served as a Las Vegas City Council member for Ward 1, which included the downtown area, from 1987 to 1991. He was also a former Clark County Regional Transportation Commissioner from 1988 - 1991. Instead of running for reelection, he ran for mayor, which he lost. In 1991, Miller was voted Most Effective Public Official in the Las Vegas Review-Journal's annual reader's poll.[citation needed]
Steve Is the Chairman Emeritus of Goodwill Industries of Nevada, and President Emeritus of Opportunity Village for people with intellectual disabilities.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ AmericanMafia.com
- ^ "Shindig at the Teenbeat Club". Wisconsin Historical Society. December 2003. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ^ a b "About Us". The Rock Files. Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ^ "Hall of Fame Past Inductees". Nevada Broadcasters Association. Archived from the original on 2015-07-08. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ^ "2011 Inductee List - Mentors". Las Vegas Rock Reunion Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 18 December 2011. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ^ Las Vegas Leisure Guide, "A Special Event - Looking Back on Las Vegas," April 22, 2011
- ^ Dice Clocks
- ^ Miller, Steve (23 July 1999). "The Graveyard Spiral". Las Vegas Tribune. Retrieved 2013-10-01.