Family Photographs - Post 50: The Lath-house

I'm posting old family photographs from my collection on Wednesdays, but they won't be wordless Wednesday posts like others do - I simply am incapable of having a wordless post.

This photograph is from my grandfather's photo album that I scanned during Scanfest in January:


The people in this picture are my great-grandparents, Austin and Della (Smith) Carringer. It was taken between 1915 and 1920 (based on adjacent photographs in the album). The setting is a lath-house that adjoined the house situated at 2105 30th Street in San Diego, which the Carringers built in the late 1890's.

Inside the lath-house there appear to be potted plants which may have been flowers or vegetables. Outside the lath-house were fruit trees and berry vines or bushes. Della had a green thumb - there were still vegetable, fruit, and berry vines/bushes/trees on the property when I was a boy in the late 1940's and early 1950's - my brother and I used to pick the produce in the summer and sell it on the street corner up at the Piggly Wiggly market two blocks away.