Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Short Street, Long Story - Part 1
Armed with innate curiosity and over half a Library Sciences degree, Brian recently unearthed the odd history of 1210 Short St. This is the Arcadia, California house that Brian grew up in, and behind which he now lives, in a renovated rec room.
What’s most unusual here is that the house was not built at its currently location! It was originally built in the late 1940s in nearby Monrovia by mysterious original owners and purchased by the Mills family in the early 1950s. Brian knew the youngest of the three Mills children (pictured above, from left to right, Carleton, their sleeping Mom, Linda and Cathy) when he was in grade school and she was in her 20s. But Mrs. Mills' parents, the Sauners, lived on Short Street on a very large plot of land that included a vacant lot where Brian’s house now stands. This is Mrs Mills and a neighbor...
Cartoon du Jour:
Engrish du Jour: "Not Craw..... Craw!'
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