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.
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Christiaan Van Buuren grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. He started working as a dealer in casinos at a property that was run by Caesars World. Chris then went to work for Gold Reef Casino Resorts as a development manager to develop casinos in South Africa. Next he worked in casinos on cruise ships as a dealer and as an assistant casino manager for Casinos Austria International and also set up casinos for them in South Africa.
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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.
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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.
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Sam S. Earl was born February 9, 1912 in Virgin, Utah. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1928 for a few months, then returned home in Utah. He returned to southern Nevada in 1935 to work during the Hoover (Boulder) Dam days. Earl and his wife lived in a tent until he built a little two-room house for his young family to reside. Earl ended up moving to various cities around southern Nevada until 1945 when he moved to Henderson, Nevada. His career was filled with working as a building contractor, truck driver, and painter. Earl passed away January 4, 1997.
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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.
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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.
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Edna Jackson-Ferguson was born October 15, 1897 in Overbrook, Kansas. She married her husband, who worked on the construction of Hoover (Boulder) Dam, on May 17, 1923 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before moving permanently to Las Vegas, Jackson-Ferguson was a teacher in Idaho. On July 1, 1930, the Jackson family made their way to Nevada, but they weren’t able to move to Boulder City until a year later after the town was built.
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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.
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Laura Garvin was born California. She graduated high school in Goldfield, Nevada, went to Los Angeles, California, and entered nurse’s training. After that, she returned to Nevada and worked until World War II started when her family lived in California again. Garvin returned to Nevada in 1946 and worked as a nurse in the city since then.
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