She upcoming worked just like the an office landlord in just one of this new apartment houses within the Daly Area. Around she met a special “protector angel.” “I found myself broke and you can my personal officemate gave me $300 and you will explained to go back to the building.” Anything usually do not create once we decided all of them as and you may, in most cases, it is always to your top. Such as is the case which have Valdez and the building. “I gravitated to that particular strengthening by background, the fresh buildings also it is Filipino-owned. I desired to own a body vocabulary facility but it did not become that way.” She got the money that has been made available to her and you can invested $70 to possess a romance ad on green area of the San francisco Chronicle. “I set a post in there that said, ‘Far-eastern beauty properly, charm and invention finding an excellent beau. If at all possible European, six-foot including, personally and you can financially complement.’ She got forty phone calls. “You to phone call try out-of a new ‘protector angel,’ Howard, whom turned into a friend. He gave me $twenty-five,000 seed money so you’re able to reopen since Broadway Studios.” Whenever she came back into strengthening it had been empty. (suite…)