Pearl Busch was born February 13, 1936 in Minnesota. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1955 with her husband, Bill, and had a daughter, Laura. Pearl has lived in the West Charleston Neighborhood since.

Irene Tabor was born November 24, 1932 and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1947 with her family. She moved to McNeil Estates Neighborhood in 1957 right before her first son was born, and raised her children in that same house for decades.

Bob Campbell grew up in central Missouri. He accepted position as city manager of Henderson, Nevada in 1976. He also worked with American Nevada Corporation on the development of Green Valley, and he helped to develop Lake Las Vegas.

Patrick Gaffey was an Ohio native, but moved to Las Vegas as a child. He eventually because a supervisor for the Clark County Parks & Recreation Department. He then obtained his Masters Degree in English and Allied Arts Council of Southern Nevada, founding its acclaimed magazine, Arts Alive in 1981.

Lovey M. McCurdy was born September 14, 1927 in Forest, Mississippi. McCurdy moved to the Westside of Las Vegas, Nevada when streets were not yet paved. Her siblings followed her to Las Vegas and worked in casinos. Her husband worked in construction at the Nevada Test Site.

Essie Shelton Jacobs (Essie Jean Shelton) was born in Fordyce, Arkansas on July, 11, 1925. Jacobs arrived in Las Vegas 1963 and worked in housekeeping at Aladdin Hotel for twenty-three years. Active in the Culinary Union, she worked as a supervisor and shop steward.

Julie Menard was born in California on April 27, 1943 and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1964 to work as a showgirl in the Folies Bergere revue at the Tropicana Hotel. She later moved to Europe to pursue a modeling career, but returned to Las Vegas, where she currently resides.