A yellow stucco house in East Los Angeles, bought in 1968 with eleven years of savings, with bougainvillea over the porch and two palms that Ernesto planted the week they moved in.
What it was like
The kitchen was the only room anyone used. The front room had plastic on the sofa until 1990.
Who lived there
[[garcia-dolores|Dolores]] and Ernesto, from 1968
Five children
Cousins arriving from Jalisco, for a week or a year
What happened to it
Marisela lives there now, and the palms are taller than the house.