Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Old Garner House

After: The Garner House - 2012
On the corner of 112th and Budlong

I passed through the old neighborhood on the way to meet some friends.I just took a couple of pictures. Hope they show here.  Grandma’s house is a mess. Check out the security fence on the Woodcrest playground. I saw the low rider car on Figueroa. - Alex Magdaleno

Before:  The Garner House - ca 1949
With Russell's LaSalle car in front

This photo was provided by Alex Magdaleno when we were rounding up pictures of our old cars for the Berendo list.  Russell's car was taken in front of the Garner house around 1949 when it was in much better shape. - Johnny


Eddie Magdaleno and friends near Berendo and 112th  abt 1924

I stopped at the house on the far right in this picture and gave them a copy. It is still there. With a little of my poor Spanish and their poor English I got across to them that is was taken about 1924. - Alex M.
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  1. John DumasApril 24, 2012 at 4:39 PM

    OMG.... This really hits me in the GUT.. where are we going?? how far will it go before it turns around?? The world seems to be getting so hard and brutal... A beautiful old house no one cares about or they have no funds to take care of it.. A fence that was made for a prison?? I guess I now know how my Grandmother felt... when as a baby she told my mother “what kind of life is she going to grow up in...?” We made it through so I guess the children growing up now with have the skills to cope and change... Wow, Alex, these pictures really made an impression on me.. I live in such a beautiful environment now and think of Berendo as home... Now I realize one of the reasons “you can’t go home again”

    Thanks for getting me out of my complacency to realize what a beautiful life I have and being SO very grateful...

    BTW... I have trouble seeing you all grown up.. You are still that young guy with the “perfect hair” I remember you as having had the BEST hair on the block... - Diane Sharp

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    1. John DumasApril 24, 2012 at 5:27 PM

      Thanks Diane.
      There is not a lot of that hair left.
      Many of the houses there look pretty well kept but there are a lot that don’t look so good. That was one of the worst.
      I stopped at the house on the far right in this picture and gave them a copy. It is still there. With a little of my poor Spanish and their poor English I got across to them that is was taken about 1924. - Alex M.

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    2. John DumasApril 24, 2012 at 5:30 PM

      Hi Gang,
      Yes, it's hard to see the old (new in my time) Garner house in such
      disrepair. It's been several years since I last drove through the old
      neighborhood, but that last time the Garner house was already looking
      seedy, but the rest of the neighborhood looked generally in good
      shape. What was your take on the over all look Al?
      Johnny

      ps: Next spring (March 2013), my brothers and I are doing our annual
      trip around the L.A. area. Maybe some of you would like to join us
      when we cruise Berendo. - jd

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    3. John DumasApril 24, 2012 at 5:32 PM

      Hi Johnny.

      Overall it looked pretty good If you go to Google Earth and then street view, you and see the houses on Budlong in the area of 110th St. For some reason they have not yet done the street view of 112th and that area.

      Alex

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    4. John DumasApril 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM

      I would like to join you vicariously through pictures.... assuming we all get through the mystery of what will happen December 2012 - Diane

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    5. John DumasApril 24, 2012 at 5:34 PM

      So sad to see the house -- looks like a tear-down, but grampa's garage still stands. Look at what they built in place of Mrs. Vreeland's old house. - Cathy Fortuna

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    6. John DumasApril 24, 2012 at 9:28 PM

      Yes, they filled up that lot with house. I should have taken a few more pictures but I was running late. - Alex M.

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    7. John DumasApril 25, 2012 at 5:02 PM

      Even if we'd grown up in a "good" neighborhood, it would still be unrecognizable now. Money arriving, money leaving, they both change stuff. I've been back through just a couple of times in the past twenty years, and both times got stopped. First, by the cops, who I guess thought a Volvo station wagon cruising through on a Sunday morning looked odd. Last time, by the residents, who thought an Odyssey cruising by at lunchtime taking pictures of every house looked odd. Good neighborhood watch! - Mike Dumas

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    8. John DumasApril 25, 2012 at 5:03 PM

      Hey! I would like to say..... We did grow up in a “good” neighborhood.... memories of my old neighborhood are the best.... and I guess if you put a picture of me then and now you would see “how run down I am” but those memories are the best and the neighborhood was the greatest... Diane

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