Llew Keller, Jr. Photos - 6824 Apperson Street Tujunga

        

54 - Front yard, taken from the rock retaining wall above the lawn, looking east. The kid is obviously me. My dad’s MG and my mom’s 1950 Studebaker sit in the carport. 54 – Looking down the driveway. 54 – Living room, looking toward the kitchen.

        

54 – Front yard, me and our cat. 54 - In the backyard, looking east. 54-Again, looking east.

        

54 - Front yard looking west, my father had planted front and back lawns by then. Everybody had lawns in the neighborhood in those days. My father hated caring for them, but thought it was his duty as a man, until he gave up in the 1970s. 55, I think – My mother and me next to the big front window. We ate at a long built-in table under that window for the first few years until my Mom put a dining room table in the living room. 54 or 55 – My mother and me in the kitchen, neither of us look very happy.

        

54 – From the living room looking south – it was amazing how clearly you could see the opposite mountain in those early years. Photo says 54, but probably 55 – My mother and me in front of my father’s first Austin-Healy. The wall in the background had a hidden shed door which opened into a large storage room, which also had access from the living room. That room became the southern half of the addition that we built in 1966. The carport became the north part of the addition. 55 – Breakfast at the dining counter. You can see the northeast bedroom, which was my father’s studio, as well as the TV room (my mother thought that having a TV in the living room was tacky), and an occasional guestroom.

        

55 – Looking toward the living room, which looks huge in this picture. The far wall next to the fireplace became a bookcase within a couple of years. 54 or 55 – the Living room early on – not much furniture Backyard looking west. The back of the pic says 56, but I think it was probably a year or 2 earlier.

 

        

56 – Snow in Tujunga. Taken from the top of the front yard – maybe a few feet into the Befu’s back yard. Snow from the front yard. You can see the Befu’s house at 6830, and the Garibaldi house on the left - before all the trees and foliage were planted 56 – My bedroom – northwest corner of the house.

        

Me in the living room. The storage room (later part of the addition) was on the other side of that wall. 56 – from my parent’s bedroom looking east down the hall 57 – must have been the morning of my 5th birthday party.

        

1960 – me in the upper front yard. My mother finally got a “new” car – a used 55 Chevy wagon. You can see the Irving’s house (6822) in the background. That pine tree was the first in a tradition of buying live Christmas trees, then planting them in the yard every January. It also got very large. 65 – me and my mother in the living room. That cabinet in back of me is an unusual dark orange-red color – my mother liked Chinese Modern furniture. The cabinet looked great in front of the mahogany paneling. It’s now in my bedroom in San Francisco. 65 – my grandmother in the kitchen. (Xmas 65)

     

65 – my room 66 – Looking out at the front yard, after the addition was completed. After a couple of years of just dirt and weeds in front, my father was inspired by the new addition and new front patio to give lawns another try.

     

67 – Me, my mother, grandmother, and Victor in the new living room (addition) – Christmas apparently. Lawn care, again.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 
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