This was 1972 in Redondo Beach. There is a Eugene connection which I will explain in a future post. Note the roof of the bus in the driveway. This is my best friend’s parents house. He was running an unlicensed repair shop. His mother recently passed and the house sold for $1.4 million.
Well, there’s an Easter Egg for sure.
My little blue egg will probably not be found in the egg hunt, and hide out in the garage this year.
Happy Easter everyone! I really appreciate this community.
Literally shade tree!
“Don’t panic, I’m a shade tree mechanic”….lyrics to a song I heard long ago. Artist unk
Seeing this picture reminds me of pre electronic device days when parents had to be resourceful to entertain their kids on roadtrips. “Counting Volkswagen’s” was one popular game to play. This house would have been the jackpot!
That house value! ZOIKS!! Bet there aren’t too many shade tree, high-volume auto mech enterprises on the streets of Redondo Beach today.
If houses in Eugene go that high, Paul will have hit the jackpot!
Friend of mine moved from San Francisco to Washington DC to take a promotion and a job at Headquarters. By the time he retired, the house he sold in San Francisco had appreciated more than his paycheck for the entire time. Meanwhile, his home in Maryland…didn’t.
They won’t. But our old house in Los Gatos is now estimated at $3.8 million.
I’d rather have what I have now: a dozen less expensive houses that generate income instead of a big mortgage payment. 🙂
My thoughts exactly…..no city codes enforcement officer back in 1972, but I bet there is now.
Ahhhh…… simpler times and sweet memories! I feel extremely blessed this Easter time to have been a kid at that and experienced that life. While I believe it’s true that one would be endless bored having to relive ones life in its exact entirety, there are are snapshots in time I would love to taste again. And this would be one!! Thanks for posting!
Not Eugene…but could be!
Reminds me of the time when I had 5 or 6 Peugeot 404s, several of them “leased” to co-workers. The difference was that we lived in an apartment in Santa Monica, and it was street parking except for one (and later two) slots in the parking garage.
Whats that at the far end , at the right ? And I see something in the yard – looks like it might have a “Veed” windshield.
The car on the end looks like maybe an Opel Record Caravan. There were a few other European cars than just VW’s. I remember a couple of regular customers with Fiats. The car hidden behind the bus has a partial tarp over the front. It may have been the Porsche 356 insurance total that we were working on for a neighbor.
I didnt have as many and the brands varied more but tyhat could have been my backyard operation in Cygnet TAS usually 3 or 4 cars plus our own 3 parked around the place nobody minded we were rural.