Clifford Conedy played on the football team at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, beginning in 1973. The university got him a job working security as part of the youth patrol at Circus Circus Hotel-Casino. He lived in Washington State and came back to Las Vegas in 1977 and worked security for the Fremont Hotel and Casino and for the Stardust. He became a dealer for the Fremont and also worked for Little Caesars Casino, the Mint Hotel and Casino, El Rancho, the Imperial Palace, the MGM Grand, the Flamingo Hilton, and Casesars Palace.

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.

Gordon Smith was born November 25, 1943 in Tropic, Utah. His family moved to Hawthorne, Nevada, in 1947. In 1955 he and his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. Smith went to Rancho High School. After high school, he went to barbering college and then was drafted and was a medic in the United States Army taking care of soldiers who had been critically wounded in the Vietnam War. After he got out of the Army, Smith opened a McDonalds and then worked full time as a barber.

Dorothy Pitzer was born September 9, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois and was raised in small Illinois towns. She met her future husband, Doug, when they went to rival high schools. She began nurses training in Dixon, Illinois, and immediately after her 1950 graduation, Pitzer and Doug married. The couple moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in July 1954, when Doug was transferred to Nellis Air Force Base. Pitzer worked as a nurse at Las Vegas Hospital and Clinic 1954-1957 and later worked for a private obstetrics practice.

Ella Calista Carruth (née Earl) was born on June 19, 1901 in Bunkerville, Nevada. She was the granddaughter of Edward Bunker Sr., a Mormon settler who founded the town of Bunkerville in 1877. Carruth was also related through marriage to Zilpha Earl (née Fuller), who was purported to be the first non-indigenous person born in the Las Vegas Valley. Zilpha Earl was born at the Old Mormon Fort in present-day Las Vegas in 1856.

Dr. Gaelen Lee Felt was a scientist who was active during the height of atomic testing in the mid-twentieth century. He worked for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada. Felt worked on the Nevada Atomic Test Site and became deputy director of the site in 1955. He then worked for the firm Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier (EG & G), eventually becoming vice president of the company's technical support group. He served on the Nevada Board of Education beginning in 1965.

Arturo Amaya was born in Peru in 1958. He is the third oldest of seven children born to Isabel and Alfonso Amaya. While in Peru, Arturo Amaya studied law and established a criminal prosecuting office there. Amaya was then elected into to district attorney where he continued to work criminal cases. After visiting his brother in Las Vegas, Amaya decided to immigrate with his family to Las Vegas in 2003. In Las Vegas, Amaya is a painter by trade, but was instrumental in establishing the Peruvian Association in Las Vegas.