Henry Boney, a Texan transplant, had been working as an ice cream delivery man in California since he fled his hometown to escape the dust bowl. Working at that same facility, he met Jessie - an office worker whom he would share the rest of his life with. Shortly after the couple married in 1934, Boney borrowed a $600 from his new in-laws in order to buy a truck to help him haul produce into his new venture - a fruit stand. Risky as it may have been, the fruit stand rapidly multiplied into five, and then blossomed into grocery stores.