Schwartz was born on May 13, 1926 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He attended Colorado Military School in Denver, Colorado and the University of Southern California. He left the university without a degree and went into the merchant tailoring business in Los Angeles, California. After that business went bankrupt, he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with his brother, Seymour Schwartz, around 1951 and started Schwartz Brothers Clothing.
Kent Carmichael, lighting engineer and artist, is responsible for many of the most iconic signs in Las Vegas history. Kent Carmichael was born in December 1933 in Burbank, California, drafted for Korean War as a football player for the U.S. Navy, and served overseas in Korea. After being discharged in 1956 in Long Beach he began working for Interstate Neon for Max and Mo Oggenblick.
Nadine Tobin was born on September 5, 1931 in Lysine, Kansas. Tobin and her family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1941. Tobin was a photograph lab technician and printed photographs for the Atomic Energy Commission and Nevada Highway Patrol. Tobin resided in southern Nevada until her death on March 19, 2015.
Source:
Nadine Tobin oral history interview, 1979 February 10. OH-01829. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.