Jaye Furlonger works as the Historian for IS Architecture where she devotes most of her time to research and to writing nominations for the local historic register. She is a graduate of the University of San Diego ’s MA in Public History program and has been working in historic preservation since January 2004. Before attending USD, she completed a BA at Carleton University and a three-year technical program in Applied Museum Studies at Algonquin College in Ottawa , Canada . She worked at the New York Transit Museum Archives from 1999 to 2003, and has spent the past three years volunteering her museum expertise to help save one of America’s last great roadside attractions, the Exotic World Burlesque Museum (formerly located in Helendale, CA; currently looking for a new home in Las Vegas, NV). Jaye’s article “San Diego's Bygone Burlesque: The Famous Hollywood Theatre” -- based on her 2005 master’s thesis, won a 2005 Institute of San Diego History Award and was recently published in the Winter/Spring 2005 issue of the Journal of San Diego History.