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My father was born in a house in Massachusetts that was built in 1741. His father owned it. My father never owned a home of his own. He lived for forty years in the same rented house in Chicago, although he was a wealthy man and could easily have afforded to own a home.

I was born in that rented house. It was home to me in the real sense of the word, because my father and mother made it a home; but it lacked something - it could not impart pride in ownership nor a sense of permanency. One result was an ambition to own my own house.

I have lived in several houses in several cities. Two of them, in Illinois, I owned, and two in Southern California. But I have never lived long enough in one place to acquire a solid sense of permanency, which has always appeared to me to connote security. And home and security seem almost synonomous (sic), for home is sanctuary.

Yet my homes were real homes in every respect other than permanency. They had comfortable furniture, selected because it was what we wanted and not because it represented any period, nor because some interior decorator told us to get it. It represented us. Perhaps a lot of it didn't harmonize, but at least our home did not look like the show window of a furniture store.

Our home had children, and dogs, and white rats, and horses. It had books, and easy chairs in which to read them. Our friends and our children's friends were welcome there.

And so, to me, home is where the children are and love and companionship and dogs and security and horses and ownership and white rats and books and permanence.

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzana, California

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414 Augusta St. ~ Oak Park
1914-1916

This strange and intriguing tapestry was built into the wall above
the fireplace mantle of the ERB home at 414 Augusta St.
It is a colourful and dense jungle forest scene.
In the centre of the mural is an exotic walled city and tower
and to one side is a large building of a style reminiscent of a
Virginia, Civil War-type mansion.
One can only wonder how many times ERB's imagination wandered
through this scene as he sat before the living room fire plotting stories
which would soon become classics loved by millions.

6415 (later 414) Augusta St. Oak Park

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550 A Avenue, Coronado, California

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Camp Disaster
Automobile Camping Tour from Oak Park to California

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Hollenbeck Hotel
Downtown Los Angeles
Corner of Spring Street and Second Street

click                                                                                                                                  Hollenbeck Lobby
Observe in Photo 1:
The four-story Victorian brick building has a five-story octagonal tower over the main entrance on the corner.
There are unfurled awnings at street level.
Several automobiles are parked along the curb.
A horse-drawn wagon drives down one street at right.
A streetcar is visible at left.
There are ectrical lines running over streetcar rails.
Numerous pedestrians are on the sidewalks and in the street.
A street cleaner is sweeping the street directly

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More Views of Old LA in the Hollenbeck Hotel Area
Ref: A Visit to Old Los Angeles

Photo 1: "We look back at the east face of the south 100s block of Spring. All those wires! The corner of the Bryson Block looms darkly at extreme left."
Photo 2: "We are momentarily granted the power to fly, and wing our way out the tower of the Hollenbeck across the street and south down the block a number of yards, alight, and turn again to the north, now focusing on the west face of the south 100s block. That's the Hollenbeck Hotel in the immediate foreground to the left, beyond which we can see the full majesty of the Bryson Block. The Bryson Block, built in 1889, is on the site of an early public school, and an early City Hall. In the distant background on the left, we can see some of the houses on Bunker Hill close by to downtown. Suburbia just a block or two away from stark downtown! The tall towered building in the distance is the Court House."

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355 South Hoover St. ~ Los Angeles

700 Linden Ave. ~ Oak Park

"The Doring House" Rented Home
325 North Oak Park Ave. ~ Oak Park
1918-1919

Demolished in the 1970s

Click for full-size promo collages

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