11/05/2026
This is Las Vegas Machine. In the first week of January 1947, Arthur Schlauder came to Las Vegas looking for work and got hired here as the bookkeeper.
He became the purchasing agent, then the office manager, and in time he owned the place. The steel they fabricated went into the control tower and both concourses at McCarran Airport, Bonanza and Western High Schools, and a tower at the Nevada Test Site.
Look at the smaller building on the left. Industrial Supplies. (Swipe to see)
In 1972, Arthur encouraged his 18-year-old son, Allyn, to start a company of his own selling bearings and power transmission parts. Allyn set up a trailer on the Las Vegas Machine property and started Bearing Sales out of it.
Bearing Sales eventually got a building of it's own.
Today it’s Source 4.
Three generations, same town, same line of work.