Randy and the Cat in About 1950 in San Diego -- (Not So) Wordless Wednesday #878

 I found another priceless (to me) photograph in my computer file folders:

In about 1950, my brother Stan and I loved to play with cap pistols.  In this photograph, I am looking at the camera (it was probably my grandfather taking the photo) and the cat is distracted by something off the right side of the photograph.  I'm wearing my cowboy hat (Hopalong Cassidy?), a long sleeve shirt, short pants, and my pistol holster.  There were so many places to hide on this block and we were always outside playing games of some sort.

I know exactly where this is - the northeastern corner of 30th Street and Hawthorn Street.  The walkway that I'm standing on is the entry to where the old Carringer house stood when it was on the corner.  At the top of the photo, I see the Carringer modified two-story house (now 2115 and 2119 30th Street) beyond the wall covered with vines.  We lived in the upper apartment and my grandparents lived in the lower apartment in 1950.  Between the wall and Hawthorn Street is the vacant lot where we played games and picked berries off the bushes (off the photo to the right.  The palm tree that was planted after the house was built is in back of me - it's in the photographs from the 1910 to 1930 time period. 

This photograph is a part of my family history.  I enhanced and colorized it using the MyHeritage photo tools.  

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