During our Centennial year, dozens of people wrote to the Web site to submit their own personal stories of Las Vegas.

Las Vegas residents told us their family history, while guests shared that one memory that made their visit unforgettable. Other writers sent us childhood memories from Helldorado Days or told how their Las Vegas business took shape and prospered.

Taken together, these stories draw a picture of Las Vegas that is recognizable to all of us -- a picture of a town that is colorful, exciting and eccentric, a town that keeps pulling us back, time and again.