In 1955, Lorene started Mammen Glass and Mirror by taking orders during the day for windshield replacements. J.H. would pick up the windshields on his way home from work and install them in the evening. By 1956 business had picked up enough that J.H. resigned from Adeleta and worked with his wife full-time. In the first month following this they had to hire their first employee and soon started doing residential and commercial glass work. Their boys both began helping out part-time at age 12, and both went to work for the company full-time after graduating from Irving High School and serving in the Army Reserves.
