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Marion Brooks was born January 2, 1913 in Santa Ana, California. He moved to Nevada in 1932 to work as a miner in the Blue Diamond Mine and later enrolled at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1933. Brooks gained experience in mining silver, zinc, and gold during this time. Later, the Blue Diamond Corporation offered Brooks a position in production due to his engineering qualifications and construction experience. Brooks retired in 1973 due to health complications.

Brooks died on April 13, 1995.

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Tomoko Sekiya Katsuko was born in Japan. She was a dancer in the Holiday in Japan stage show and came to the United States in 1960. The group performed the show at the New Frontier Hotel and Casino, Desert Inn Hotel and Casino, and Dunes Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in the early 1960s. After the show concluded, she stayed in the United States and eventually married Larry Billman in 1967. The couple went on to have two children, Sekiya Billman and Saadia Billman.

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Ira David Sternberg, host of “Talk About Las Vegas,” interviews the celebrities, entertainers, writers and personalities who make Las Vegas the most exciting city in the world.His career includes decades of professional broadcasting as well as public relations, writing and communications. Ira was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 1998. He previously hosted a long-running weekly talk show, “Las Vegas Notebook.”