Burton Bass (1932- ) is a photographer and owner of Burton Studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York and practiced photography from the time he was a child. Bass opened his first professional photography studio in 1962, shortly after he married Wilma Frank in 1960. In 1974 the couple moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where Bass worked for his brother-in-law Ed Frank's check cashing businesses. In 1979 Bass opened his own photography business, Burton Studio.

Marion D. Bennett, Sr. was born May 31, 1933 in Greenville, South Carolina to a family of eleven. He graduated from Sterling High School and went on to Morris Brown College. After graduating in 1957, he later matriculated at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia where he received a Master of Divinity in 1960. Reverend Bennett came to Las Vegas, Nevada on July 7, 1960 to be the pastor of the Zion United Methodist Church. Reverend Bennett fought hard to get the Equal Rights Commission established in Nevada.

Sook-ja Kim was a Korean-American singer who performed in many Las Vegas, Nevada hotels and casinos. Sook-ja was a member of the musical group named The Kim Sisters that began performing for American soldiers in the Korean War. In 1959, Sook-ja was invited to perform at the Thunderbird Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and continued to play in various hotels and casinos until she retired from performing in 1989. As of 2019, Sook-ja Kim Bonifazio works as a real estate agent in Las Vegas.

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Harold Henry James "Hal" Erickson was the second Director of Libraries for Nevada State University, later known as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He came to UNLV in 1965 and began expanding Special Collections to include many gaming, Southern Nevada, and local history collections. He retired in 1993 after many years of service on local boards and his dedicated library work.

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Hal Erickson Correspondence, 1960-1993. MS00745. Special Collections and Archives, University