1955.  Home at 7553 Trask Ave, Playa del Rey (Los Angeles), California.  Home from 1955 - 1972.  Purchased for $16,000.   (Worth substantially  more today.)

In January, 1955 we purchased a house in Playa del Rey.  Of all the places I lived, I liked Playa del Rey the best.

1955

1955

  
Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club
 

Ed Mills with Humphrey Bogart, Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club, circa 1955.

1956   Laying brick in the backyard.

Christmas, 1956

1956  Lu at Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club. 

Ed, George Gillespie, Lu.

In 1956 Ed was elected Commodore of the Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club. His photo, along with all the previous Commodores, is still displayed at the Club in San Pedro, CA.

1957  Catalina

1957  San Pedro

At the "duck pond" at Playa del Rey with his son Mike.

Sailboat racing at Huntington Lake. 1958.

1958   Huntington Lake.   Ed's brother-in-law Chuck, Mike, Ed, Chuck's son, Ken.

1958

1958

1958  Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club, San Pedro

1958

1959

1960   Alice, Ed's sister's daughter Nancy, Ed, Mike

1962 

In 1962 Lu and I  took our first trip to Hawaii.

1965

The retirement home where Ed's father, Alice lived in her later years.  The was partially subsidized retirement housing for mothers who had lost a son in Word War II.   

1968  Mike crewing for Ed during sailboat races at Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club in San Pedro, CA

I think the happiest times of my life were when my son was between about 8 and 12 years old.  It was the time when a boy is turning into a man -- getting away from Mama.  You can actually see the child develop into an adult during those ages -- you can talk to them and they talk back.  Those were very happy years for me -- it was a combination of family, hobbies and good friends that was hard to match.  At that period of our life it was a pretty smooth running operation.

Ed's mother, Alice, died on June 6, 1968 in a nursing home in Playa del Rey, CA. She had been ill for some time with Parkinson's disease.

On February 9th, 1971 we were awakened by the 6.5 Silmar earthquake.   We all ran outside of the house.  The rolling movement lasted for several minutes.

1972.   At the Coconut Grove nighclub, Ambassador Hotel, with performance by Sammy Davis, Jr.

1973   House in Mountain View, CA

In January, 1972 I received a promotion at Argonaunt Insurance Company, and was transferred to the company home office in Menlo Park. We bought a house at 2713 Ramos Court, Mountain View, CA.

1973  Birthday party for "Lulu"

1973

1974

Three former members of the "19th Street Gang," George Gillespie, Norb, and Ed (George andEd wearing toupees).  Circa 1974.

In 1979 I retired. We sold the house in Mountain View and moved into a rental house at 5721 Raphael Dr., Huntington Beach, CA.

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