Mom's rental house on 13th Street in San Pedro, circa 1975

When I left for San Antonio and OTS in the summer of 1973, mom moved to San Pedro.  I returned in December of 1973 until the very beginning of 1974, before I flew to Minot after New Year's Eve.

 

This picture could have been taken then, or when I was at Vandenberg AFB in the spring of 1974, during one of the several weekends I drove down there.  More likely, this was later, in 1975, when I was at Vandenberg in May of '75 for the missile launch and had my new camera.

 

I really don't recall how many months mom lived in that rental house on 13th Street before the owners needed her to move out.  Sometime later, she moved into two other rental houses before she finally moved into the senior Harbor Towers high rise where she would spend the next twenty-five years before we were forced to move her to an assisted living facility in San Pedro and then a nursing home near where my sister lived in Maryland, in 2002, before she died in June of that year. 

 

This photograph of Ann and her first husband, Mark, is of the front steps leading up to the porch where I am standing.  This appears to have been taken with my new Canon camera that I got in 1975.  If that is true, then even the Disney photographs with Uncle Robert would have had to have been taken in 1975, as well, and not 1974.