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Chamber of Commerce (view source)
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The local bodies represent [[Main Street]] (locally owned businesses) and are boosters for their cities; they do not endorse candidates.
The local bodies represent [[Main Street]] (locally owned businesses) and are boosters for their cities; they do not endorse candidates.
==Boosters==
A main role of local chambers is to boost the city and promote tourism. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce energetically promoted tourism in the 1930s, following the completion of Hoover Dam. They featured an image of Las Vegas as a 'last frontier.' Advertising brochures, newspaper publicity, and motion pictures celebrated Las Vegas for its hospitality, legal gambling, easy divorce laws, and local naughty attractions. It worked, as shown by the increasing number of tourists and visitors in the late 1930s. Completion of the El Rancho Vegas resort casino in 1941 foreshadowed the postwar boom in resort hotels.<ref> Larry Gragg, "Selling 'Sin City': Successfully Promoting Las Vegas During the Great Depression, 1935-1941," ''Nevada Historical Society Quarterly'' 2006 49(2): 83-106, </ref>
==Jaycees==
The Junior Chamber of Commerce, is known as the Jaycees, is for young business people.
==Ethnics==
Many cities have a chamber of commerce for a specific ethnic group. For example, In 1939, 11 small businessmen (mostly grocers), one businesswoman, and Dallas's Mexican consul formed a Mexican chamber of commerce, La Camara Mexicana de Comercio de Dallas.
==Worldwide==
==Worldwide==
==External Link==
==External Link==
[http://www.uschamber.com/default Official Website]
[http://www.uschamber.com/default Official Website]
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[[Category:Conservative Organizations]]
[[Category:Conservative Organizations]]
[[Category:Business]]
[[Category:Business]]
[[Category:Urban History]]
[[Category:Urban History]]