When my future husband and I were engaged to be married, his grandmother passed away, and left him $700.00.

My future mother in law told me that there was a beauty salon for sale right next to the theater in San Mateo. The cost was about $700.00, so he put me in business.

I named it the El Nora beauty salon. I ran it until my daughter was born and I had to give it up. We were married in 1938, and she was born in 1941.