Young Abraham emigrated to the United States at age 5 with his parents and siblings George, Elsie and Edna,[18] and the family settled in San Francisco.
[18] At age 22, Nahas was an escrow clerk at an insurance and trust company at 5th and Spring Streets and lived at 784 East Washington Boulevard in what is now southeastern Downtown Los Angeles.
[2] Nahas started working in retail in 1918 and became the manager of the Woolworth five and dimes in Prescott, Arizona (where he resided during the 1920 census),[21] Santa Rosa, California and Hollywood.
[22][2] His WWII draft card shows Abe and Edith Nahas living at 753 1/2 N. Croft Ave. in Hollywood at that time and his employer as Woolworth's.
[2] The Nahases had a home in Newport Beach, featured in the Los Angeles Times in 1958, stretching 110 feet along the breakwater, designed by architect Herbert Brownell.