Norman Christiansen was born on October 11th, 1931 in Red Lodge, Montana. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 after graduating college in Montana. Christiansen worked at the Nevada Test Site for two years and was a teacher at various schools.
Carl Ciliax was born November 7th, 1941 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has worked as a printer, horse wrangler, truck driver, desert nurser, and a foreman for the Kelly Pipe. He is an avid hunter and has an interest in conservationism.
Helen M. Clark was born in July 1921 in Memphis, Tennessee. In her lifetime she has been a stenographer, real estate secretary, real estate agent, and a cashier. In this interview she discusses why she moved to Las Vegas with her family and why she was homeschooled, and then discusses her life in Las Vegas during the Great Depression, prostition, and the mob influence.
Charles Deaner was born in 1922 near Erie, Pennsylvania. Deaner served in the Air Force and battled in the North African campaign of World War II. After the war, he attended college and received a law degree from Syracuse University. Because of a sister and brother-in-law who had settled in Las Vegas, Nevada, he ventured to join them in Las Vegas during the 1950s. Deaner became a leader in the law profession during the 1960s and the 1970s.
Edward A. Collins was born on March 30th, 1916. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1955. He worked as a dealer, a captain in a showroom at the Frontier Hotel, and had many more jobs on the Las Vegas Strip.
Charlotte Conti was born Charlotte Anne Easton on December 13, 1941 in Arkansas. She was a hairdresser and physical education instructor for the St. Francis School.