Publicity agent Hank Kovell worked for the Frontier and Fremont Hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada and owned his own firm, Kovell Incorporated, which did marketing for numerous hotels on the Strip and downtown from 1964 to 1969. He organized local merchants to produce the first free coupon book that became a staple of the downtown gaming industry. He authored the book The Poor Man's Guide to Las Vegas.

Joseph Theodor LaVoie was a police officer and civic activist in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born in St. Boniface, Canada on March 28, 1916. Around 1920, the family moved to Los Angeles, California. In 1939, LaVoie moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, and began work at the Rheem Manufacturing Company in Henderson. In 1946, LaVoie joined the City of Las Vegas Police Department as a motorcycle officer where he worked as a police officer for twenty years, retiring as a sergeant in 1966.