Just as in the last photograph when I did not even recall Grandma Breeze visiting us in South Gate for Christmas that year (since the house only had two small bedrooms, I don't even know what the sleeping arrangements were), I did not recall this picture being taken.
The TR-6 is likely parked in the driveway of 8940 Cypress, South Gate, because you can see some of the grass between the concrete driveway lines beneath the car. Ann bought this powder blue car, but it was a piece of junk, mechanically. At some point she had stopped at a gas station in Long Beach to have it looked at, and that's when she met Mark Egan. At some point they moved in together and would live "in sin" for a couple of years before they got married.
Perhaps they were living together and Ann simply stopped in her car when this picture was taken in either 1971 or 1972. Mark's aunt worked for Western Airlines, and she was able to get Ann a job working for Western. Ann would continue to work for Western until after they were bought up by Delta Airlines when she worked for Delta until she retired a few years ago.
I look at the above photograph of myself, or of Ann for that matter, and I marvel at how slim we both were in those days. I had been working out with free weights in Daylin's garage even after he'd graduated from USC and went to graduate school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Even being able to bench press 165 lbs, slightly above my body weight at the time, I still wasn't showing much muscle.
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