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To: Road Walker who wrote (338257)	5/21/2007 8:15:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577984

What were you guys doing living in barrios? Slumming? LOL. No. I was in real estate development. On the side, I rehabbed a couple of old houses and liked it. Then there was this brouhaha over these two incredible craftsman houses, like ones in Oak Park, that were scheduled to be torn down for a development. The neighbors were desperate to save them. They got the developer to agree on a price he would sell them if they got a potential buyer. Guess what.....I was the buyer. I got one of the councilmen to go in on them with me.....much to the initial unhappiness of his wife. One of the houses had been built by the founder of Tustin, California and was designed by the same architect who designed the Egyptian theater in Hollywood. John Phillip Sousa used to stay at the house when he was in town. The house next door was designed and built by a woman architect who lived in it. Its a cool house.......that's the one I ended up living in. The neighborhood had been one of LA's silk stocking neighborhoods but had fallen on bad times. So that's how I go to live in the barrio. By comparison, Oceanside, where Chris lived, was Beverly Hills adjacent. This is the house......I'll to see if there are any photos of either of them on line: Mary P. Field House & Arroyo Stone Wall Map L.A. Historic Cultural Monument 372 Built in 1903 for Mary Field, this house is a prime example of a chalet-style, barn-type Craftsman bungalow. Declared: 7/15/88 4967 Sycamore Terrace, Highland Park, CA 90042