1045-1/2 S. Norton Ave, Los Angeles, 6, Calif.
I've mentioned here many times before that both Dad and Mom were mostly hush-hush about their lives prior to their marriage. This included talk about where they had lived in the past. In fact, of all the places they each lived before I was born, there was only one for which I knew an actual address, and that was Mother's apartment in West Los Angeles during the '40s. She lived at 1045-1/2 S. Norton Ave, Los Angeles, 6, Calif.
Even though Mom talked about her place on Norton, she never actually took me there, so all these years I've kind of suspected that the reason was it didn't exist anymore. It wasn't until just the other day that I went on Google Maps' Street View and discovered to my complete amazement that the place is still there!
Here's Mom in front of her apartment building on July 28, 1941:
And here it is today!
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After I gathered all the Norton pics together, I was further surprised that they dated all the way from 1941-1951. This means she was living there right up to the time she married my father. I honestly had no idea resided there that long...
Another picture from July 28, 1941:
January 14, 1945. This is Mom with her longtime roommate, Anne Livingston, from Butte, Montana. (I now think it must have been through Anne that Mom met her late soldier husband, Larry Fitzpatrick, also from Butte.) Anne would later marry LeRoy Swenson, and together they ran a Dr. Pepper bottling plant in Stockton, California:
October 1945. I never knew before where this picture was taken, but seeing the palms in the Google Maps image, I now think there's no doubt that the baby palms in the background here are the exact same trees:
April 28, 1946:
December 1946:
And this last one was from 1950:
I also now tend to think that the photos in my last post might have been taken inside Mom's apartment here.
It looks to me like the place on Norton is still nice. I wonder, who lives there now?
Even though Mom talked about her place on Norton, she never actually took me there, so all these years I've kind of suspected that the reason was it didn't exist anymore. It wasn't until just the other day that I went on Google Maps' Street View and discovered to my complete amazement that the place is still there!
Here's Mom in front of her apartment building on July 28, 1941:
And here it is today!
View Larger Map
After I gathered all the Norton pics together, I was further surprised that they dated all the way from 1941-1951. This means she was living there right up to the time she married my father. I honestly had no idea resided there that long...
Another picture from July 28, 1941:
January 14, 1945. This is Mom with her longtime roommate, Anne Livingston, from Butte, Montana. (I now think it must have been through Anne that Mom met her late soldier husband, Larry Fitzpatrick, also from Butte.) Anne would later marry LeRoy Swenson, and together they ran a Dr. Pepper bottling plant in Stockton, California:
October 1945. I never knew before where this picture was taken, but seeing the palms in the Google Maps image, I now think there's no doubt that the baby palms in the background here are the exact same trees:
April 28, 1946:
December 1946:
And this last one was from 1950:
I also now tend to think that the photos in my last post might have been taken inside Mom's apartment here.
It looks to me like the place on Norton is still nice. I wonder, who lives there now?