On the winding drive up the wooded mountain I had passed deceptively rustic homes which reminded me of the ones in my hometown of Chapel Hill — the family dwellings of Ph.D hippies, with rusted cars and kitchen gardens on … The surrounding neighborhood of Highland Park, by the early 1900s, had grown into a thriving suburb with the advent of the streetcar system bringing passengers from downtown on the “yellow car” to the corner of York and North Figueroa. …

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