Francisco "Frank" and Yolanda Veloz

Yolanda was born in Manhattan New York in a section called "Little Italy" in 1908 and was considered a tomboy as a young girl. She met Frank in a street corner prohibition Speak-Easy around 1921 at an early age and they later married. Having won more than forty dance contests together, they owned and operated the prestigious "Palmer House" in Chicago in 1929.

In the 1930's, they came to Hollywood to dance at the then famous "Coconut Grove" and got their start in the film industry and danced in a number of films during their career together. Frank and Yolanda were one of the most famous and most successful of exhibition dancers. They created dances such as the "Cobra Tango" and "Veolanda" and purchased and ran a number of successful dance studios in Southern California.

Frank and Yolanda were the hosts to the Los Angeles Examiner's "Dance To Fame" contest held in Los Angeles. They received an Oscar nomination for the category 'Short Subjects (One-Reel)' for "Cavalcade of the Dance" in 1943. They were honored with two streets named after them in the San Fernando Valley and both passed away in Burbank, CA: Frank on February 27, 1981 and Yolanda on March 24, 1995.