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Riceberg, Harvey
Harvey Riceberg was born in Canada and received their pharmacy degree in Arizona. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1968 to receive a license because Arizona wouldn’t recognize him as a citizen. Riceberg married his wife, Janis, in 1975.
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Hambric, Arby L., 1926-
Arby Hambric was born November 24, 1926 in Teague, Texas. He started working in the cotton fields at around age seven and was drafted into the United States Navy, before completing high school. Hambric enrolled in San Diego State College after leaving the U.S. Navy. He also worked as maintenance personnel for Sears and Roebuck, and started a catering business with his wife, Veronica. Hambric moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1976 after his wife died, and he became a member of the Southern Nevada Enterprise Company Board.
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Mulidore, Jimmy, 1937-
Jimmy Mulidore grew up very poor in a predominantly Italian town in Youngstown, Ohio. His father and grandfather both worked for Youngstown Sheet and Tool steel mill. However, Mulidore’s father was against his son working at the mill, instead buying him a saxophone between the ages of 8-10 years old. Determined to chart a different course for his son, Mulidore’s father urged him to learn how to play the saxophone and added, if he did, he would not end up in the steel mill. Adhering to his father’s request, he started lessons with Albert Calderon.
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Nathan, Arte
Arte Nathan was born October 3, 1950 and was raised in Utica, New York. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1987. His training in Human Resources helped him evolve the thinking in the casino industry to allow management and labor to work for the best interests of both. Educated at Cornell University, Nathan worked with Culinary Workers Union’s Jim Wilhelm to develop a profitable relationship that served the casino owner and the people who maintained the cleanliness of the property.
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Taylor, Laura, (Vocalist)
Laura Taylor was born in New Haven, Connecticut and spent her childhood bouncing between New York and Ohio to follow her father’s career. Robert Cox, her father, was a businessman who attended Syracuse University on the Government-Issued Bill. Her mother, Lillian Cox was a concert pianist and college music professor. At the age of seventeen, Taylor received a scholarship to attend the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Powell. Unfortunately, Dr.
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Clark, Dominic
Dominic Clark was born in 1949 or 1950 in Reno, Nevada. His family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1958. He was educated in Southern Nevada, went to St. Anne’s grammar school [Catholic School], and graduated from Bishop Gorman High School in 1967. Clark went to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) for two years and graduated in 1971 from the University of Nevada, Reno. He was a sports information director for UNLV.
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Decaro, Marian Beltran, 1914-2006
Marian Beltran Decaro was born September 7, 1914 in Flagstaff, Arizona. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband and their child in September of 1939. When they arrived, Decaro opened a small Mexican restaurant, Mexican Kitchen and moved locations to the Sal Sagev Hotel in 1942, where it lasted until 1959. She passed away October 25, 2006.
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Denning, Teresa Jones, 1912-2006
Teresa Jones Denning was born March 29, 1912 in Overton, Nevada. She grew up living on a farm and experienced the 1919 flu epidemic. She graduated from Moapa Valley High School in 1929. Denning met her husband, Robert, at a dance in the newly-opened Mormon Church in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1934. They married the year after. Denning’s career revolved around being a bookkeeper and an insurance agent. She passed away September 14, 2006.
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Counts, Betty
Betty Counts was born around 1929 in Las Vegas, Nevada and graduated from Las Vegas High School. She married her husband in the Little Church of the West at the Last Frontier in 1951.
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