This is Nancy, sitting in the middle. She's been giving me pedicures for as long as I can remember. She and her 3 sisters have been working in Hollywood for 23 years. Their small salon's rent in a strip mall went from $3,000 a month to $5,000 a month. These hard working sisters came from Vietnam many, many years ago and put in 16 hour days. Their children are all A students and do not have cell phones. They also do not watch a lot of TV and speak flawless English, even though their parents don't. Nancy's nephew, in back of her, was mad that there is no summer school because Arnold S. canceled it all.
They always had their shrine up with different fruits for different seasons and good fortune but even that couldn't protect them from the recession. Everyone is sad to see them go.
They did not accept credit cards. The Thais in my neighborhood don't accept them either. They save and don't reward VISA, Mastercard or AMEX with their hard-earned 2 or 3%. They are unfailingly polite and kind in a country that tried to wipe them out, a war their families remember well. 
End of Nancy.
They always had their shrine up with different fruits for different seasons and good fortune but even that couldn't protect them from the recession. Everyone is sad to see them go. 
End of Nancy.
