The Story of Their Lives, With a Twist.

What's your dream?

Everyone dreams, no matter what their age. But as our life progresses, sometimes we let go of even our fondest dreams. At Marquis, we say, don’t even think about letting go. We believe as long as there are still things you want to do, there’s always time to write a new chapter.

What follows are some stories we were privileged enough to help bring to the pages of some extraordinary people’s lives. From flying an airplane, to a hole-in-one, to hot air ballooning, these dreams were finally realized.

“I was one of the boys,” she says. “I went deer hunting and camping with them…I was the one who went out diving in the rocks for abalone.”

Living off Huntington Beach and Long Beach, the abalone were plentiful, but dangerous to catch. Divers would take a tire iron and use it wrench the abalone off the rocks. Because she was small, and could navigate her way through the rocky sea bottom, Maybelle was the perfect candidate to do it.

“If that sucker ever got stuck, you were stuck with it, so you hoped you would be fast enough,” she begins. “You heard about people drowning, but to me it was just another job that had to be done. And it was sure good eatin’!”

Because it is considered such a delicacy, Maybelle imagines she ate thousands and thousands of dollars worth of abalone during those years. These days, though, she’s content to have someone else do the fishing. She’ll just sit back, remember, and enjoy.