Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Echo Park area

Those aren't two visiting Mormon missionaries on the porch, they're my cousins.

We lived with them for a while after we left Florida and mother divorced our birthdad.

The house, built in 1902, seemed so big to me but was only about 1300 square feet with 6 large rooms and 1 bathroom. The dining room had morning-glory wallpaper, white priscilla curtains and blinds. My aunt and uncle bought it in 1944 and lived there until they moved to the San Fernando Valley.

The picket fence was built by another uncle with surplus wood he got at work and painted by Grandpa. A rose bush is on the trellis at the right and a poinsettia bush on the left side of the house. Mother and her sister both had December birthdays and loved poinsettias.

I've recently learned that WEP (birthdad) followed us to California and lived with us at our aunt and uncle's house for a short while. WEP bought a huge Grundig Majestic Player that was considered quite an extravagent purchase. They didn't have many records and played the few they had over and over. Mother later had quite a collection of old records and my sister and I loved doing wild pantomines to Spike Jones and his Wacky Wacketeers. Scratchy old 78's and we loved them. It's fun now to see DGS discover vinyl.