[Fiji Hill]

My aunt was born and raised in Compton. She grew up only a few blocks from where George Bush, his wife Barbara and their son George, Jr. lived, in an apartment house on the corner of Myrrh and Santa Fe. Barbara Bush described Compton as a "lovely" town.

The Bush's apartment building was still standing in 2002, but it was in need of repair. It was gone the last time I drove past that intersection.

[Blurb2350]

I’ve been reading a compilation of “California writing” dating back to the mission days. Southern California was a completely different — and fascinating — place in the early and middle 1900s. Agriculture, oil drilling, the constant search for water, the development of talkies, Aimee Semple McPherson and her Angelus Temple . . .