For Leonardo Martinez, the United States was never meant to be a destination—it was merely a short stop along the way as he awaited the day he could safely return to his family in El Salvador. Now a man who embraces the occasional Big Mac from McDonalds but never turns away a Salvadoran pupusa, Leonardo has embraced both places as home with memories that took him from his humble upbringings in Santa Lucía to the bright lights of the city of Las Vegas.
Richard McCracken was born August 21, 1949 and was raised in San Jose, California in a family of farmers. He went to college at the University of California, Los Angeles, but graduated from Berkeley University in 1974. During this time, he married his wife, Marjorie, on July 7, 1972. McCracken moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1974 and started his career as a lawyer.
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.
Larry Henley was born in Portland, Oregon in 1957. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1973. He enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1975 and recieved his theatre degree in 1980. He was part of the stage crew at UNLV and segued into a profesional staff position in 1988. As of May 23, 2007 he is the director of artistic programming and production at the Performing Arts Center.