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Photograph of the Hughes Flying Boat and spectators in the Los Angeles Harbor, November 2, 1947
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Biographical essay by Gary Sternberg, 2014
Gary Sternberg grew up in Germany, witnessing anti-Semitic propaganda as early as age 7. He describes some of the experiences his father endured at a concentration camp, and his escape to China. He and his mother reunited with his father in Shanghai in 1940. They left Shanghai in 1948, eventually settling in Cleveland. He and his family came to Las Vegas in 1969.
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Schecter, Elliott D., 1969-
Elliott Schecter got a job dealing poker at a private club in New York City to earn spending money while he was a student at Rutgers. He worked as a dealer on a casino cruise ship, then became the shift manager in the poker room at the Seminole Casino Hollywood in Florida when it opened. Elliott also worked on the Palm Beach Princess casino cruise ship, at the Reno Hilton, in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Palms, at the Downstream Casino Resort in Oklahoma, and the Snoqualmie Casino in the Seattle area.
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