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Me and My Best Friend
Beautiful West Covina, summertime in the Southern California smog! Thankfully Southern California is in much better shape, air-pollution wise.
My brown friend (I was the white one) and I are enjoying the pleasures of the sprinklers and the water hose in our front yard.
He and I were inseparable from when we were babies until age 9 when my family moved. I last saw him in 1978, for his wedding. Sad how we lose touch.
Alert members will recall I posed with my Dad in this yard in my very first picture posted here. View full size.
You can see a stop sign in the distance
The street is called Lark Ellen Avenue and there were many palm trees back planted along its length in the '50s.
I still go by the old place now and then. It appears to be in decent shape. The neighborhood is a mixture of well-maintained homes and some that need paint and landscaping.
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Best friends forever
It is hard to hold on to those friends we grew up with so long ago. Reminds me of my summers in Huntington Beach where the greatest summer joy was the front yard, friends, and sprinklers!
Dynaflow
Time to start the guessing of the make and model of the car in the background. I will open with a 1953 Buick.
You can tell it's California
by the palm tree trunk in the back.
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