Gary Sanoff grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1979 he moved to Las Vegas and went to dealer school to be a craps dealer. Gary started at the Nevada Hotel and worked there for two weeks, then he worked at the El Cortez, then went to the Union Plaza where he was a box man and then a floor man. He moved to the Desert Inn and was a dealer and then a floor man there. Next he moved to the Bellagio, was a pit manager, assistant shift manager, shift manager, Interim Vice President of Table Games, and director.

Ron Saccavino was born in Connecticut and came to Las Vegas in 1970. The Las Vegas Club taught him to deal craps, and he went to work there. He was a casino manager for the Landmark, Lady Luck, Foxy's Firehouse, and the Paddlewheel. Ron also worked at the Riviera, Hacienda, Jackpot, Royal Inn, Dunes, and O'Shea's.

Margaret Ostler Stout-Hall moved to Las Vegas in 1951, when she was twelve and her father bought Las Vegas's Seven-Up Bottling Company. She grew up in Rancho Circle and went to Las Vegas high School, where she became a Rhythmette. Margaret went to work doing scheduling for Senator Harry Reid after she lost her husband and sons in an airplane accident.

Mike Unger was born June 6, 1947 in Queens, New York. He spent most of his childhood in Long Island, New York, growing up in a predominantly Jewish and Italian community. As a young adult, Unger was running one of his family’s restaurants after school. When he was in high school, his family moved to Los Angeles, California to accommodate his father’s health needs, and eventually ended up in Las Vegas, Nevada by 1967. Over the next two decades, Unger worked at nine properties in the city.

John E. Erb was born July 16, 1932 in Denver, Colorado. He worked as a geologists in Florissant, Colorado. He also lived in Wyoming, where he and his wife managed a uranium exploration camp for A.E. Humphreys. Erb moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1959 because the construction workers’ conditions were better there than in Wyoming.

Dale Duane Everett was born January 29, 1924 in Danville, Illinois. After joining the United States Navy, he was stationed to San Diego, Nevada. Everett had his own cab driving company in Fontana, California while driving for San Bernardino Yellow Cab. He came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1962 because his brother was making more money driving a cab in the city than Everett was in California. Everett drove for Whittlesea Blue Cab and experienced three union strikes since working for them.

Dorothy Frassmann was born October 29, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York. Right before her parents divorced while she was five, Frassmann moved to Canada to live with her great aunt. She moved back to the United States when she was ten years old because World War II started. She met her husband, Lewis, when she was 15 and he was 20 or 21; they married only a month after meeting each other in Texas. After a series of turmoil between Frassmann and Lewis, they got divorced less than a year later. She was left to support herself in Hubbard, Texas at the age of 15.