Growing up in L.A. - "Sunday Favorites"

It's the Sixth "Sunday Favorites" over at Chari's Happy To Design, so when you are through here see the other favorite past posts of all my blogging friends by clicking here. I hope everyone is having a fabulously blessed Sunday!

Here I am with my husband Richard, as a newlywed in the '70's , sitting with my mother, sister, and sister in-law, in front of the fountain I walked past everyday on my way to school. This fountain is still there , at the intersection of Wilshire Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd. in Beverly Hills.

After my parents divorced my mother, sister Nonie, & I moved to L.A. where we found the beach a wonderful place to forget about our troubles. I remember my mother bundeling Nonie and I up in the early hours and whisking us off to the beach to watch the sunrise. Some of my happiest memories were spent at the beach.

My sister Nonie, my mother & I pose for a picture in front of the first apartment we lived in after moving to L.A.

This was Christmas in that first apartment when I must have been about five and Nonie was about seven. My mother must have been only two years older than my oldest daughter is now (that would be 35). She was a knockout, that's for sure.

Another happy day at Muscle Beach in Santa Monica. Aren't we just too cute for words?

This apartment is in Beverly Hills on Young Drive where I spent my high school years. It was the second apartment we lived in on Young Drive. My mother loved living on Young Drive because I don't think she ever believed that she would get old.



Here I am sitting on the steps of an apartment we lived in on Orange Grove in Hollywood. The last time I lived in this apartment I was nine years old. It had a cool fire escape that Nonie and I liked sitting out on while looking at the people passing by.