After acquiring the street address from the back of the one portrait of me, I was able to find the house on So. Broadway as it looks more recently. It's nice to know that there's no longer a car parked on the front lawn as there was back in the 90's when I videotaped that visit. Besides the chain-link fence around the front lawn, the house itself has been missing for many years now the faux shutters that used to decorate all of the windows.
I remember another story. Since South Main was only two and a half blocks away, I hiked over there one day. An elderly gentleman offered me a stick of gum on the sidewalk. I naturally took it. But when I told mom about the generosity of this total stranger, she told me that I should never accept candy or gum from a stranger. Ann always remembered that she should never speak to strangers. So, when we were at the LA County Fair Grounds and she became separated from the family, she would not tell the staff at the lost and found department what her name was. They bribed her with ice cream, which she gladly took, but never offered up her name. Eventually, the parents figured out where they might find her and claimed their wayward offspring, but Ann never revealed information of any kind about herself. She might have made a good spy.
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