My mother ( Marjorie Ann Knickerbocker) was born in Minnesota but eventually moved to California. Before marrying my father ( Peter Richard Wainer) she lived with her sister Helen, her husband ( John O. Vesterby), and another sister Eleanor Knickerbocker in Los Angeles. When I was very young I remember going to Aunt Helen and Uncle John’s house and being fascinated by their backyard rose garden and the fact that it was a two story house with an easy way to the roof. I remember no one would actually let me up on the roof by myself, but as a young kid, it was pretty intriguing.
In going over some old emails, I ran into one from Shirley that had a picture of the old house with my Aunt Eleanor standing in front of it. I was also able to track the address down from 1960 voter registration rolls in LA County. One of these days I’ll have to hop up that way and take a current picture. The one in Google maps isn’t quite the thing.
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