It's a story that starts out sounding like one we've all heard before. Girl meets Boy. Girl falls in love with Boy. Girl graduates from high school. Girl has visions of great career success in the real world.
Girl wants to go to college.
Parents are not overly enthusiastic about college since it is more traditional to get married and raise a family. Girl goes to college anyway and marries boy too. This married girl and boy are Ruth and Elliot Handler. They raise two children, Barbie and Ken. In the mid 1940's, the young ambitious duo Ruth and Elliot Handler, owned a company that made wooden picture frames.