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===Women===
===Women===
Women play a major role in tourism and local chambers were one of the first business organizations to find a role for women.<ref> Lee Simpson, "Boosters in Petticoats: California Women and the Chamber of Commerce, 1880-1930," ''Journal of the West'' 2003 42(4): 35-43,</ref>
Women play a major role in tourism and local chambers were one of the first business organizations to find a role for women.<ref> Lee Simpson, "Boosters in Petticoats: California Women and the Chamber of Commerce, 1880-1930," ''Journal of the West'' 2003 42(4): 35-43,</ref>
===Atlanta===
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce was deeply interested in the urbanization and industrialization of both Atlanta and Georgia. [[Henry Grady]] (1851-89) was their model, 'the spirit of Atlanta,' whom all southern businessmen sought to emulate in elevating the South. In an effort to attract northern capital and further industrialization, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce boosted and published information about the labor force, particularly its skill, cleanliness, and docility, observing that the Blacks accepted segregation and were good workers. They also became interested in agricultural growth, improvement in productivity, in the cultural and economic value of the state education system, and the talent of its businessmen.<ref>Charles Paul Garofalo, "The Sons of Henry Grady: Atlanta Boosters in the 1920s," ''Journal of Southern History'' 1976 42(2): 187-204, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2206750 in JSTOR] </ref>
===Las Vegas===
===Las Vegas===
Sin is a big draw for men. 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>
Sin is a big draw for men. 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>