Photoessay #2883 - Another picture from the 1970s

There's something about that palm-ish looking tree that looks so familiar.  Say, in the front yard of a rental house.

But where eludes me.

I'm going to take a guess here, I think that tree was in front of a house my roommate Sara and I rented in Sacramento.  The one with the pool in the yard.  A real live swimming pool.  We took care of it all winter and then the owners made us move in June.

The picture, yeah the picture.  That's my brother and I in the mid 1970s.

We were so much younger and thinner then.  Geeeminy that was probably over 40 years ago; no wonder we're older and fatter now.  We're in shirt sleeves, why is Charl wearing that stocking cap.  No idea.  He often helped me move.  I don't know why ... you know how when you're in your 20s and somehow you're always moving.  Mainly because of landlord and mobility issues.

There we are in our glory.  That's probably the most hair I ever had.

If that's the house I'm thinking of, my father came to visit previously.  I had a small newer apartment; only time I lived by myself, by the way.  I had a new friend Sara (may she rest in peace) and we wanted to rent a house.  Not any in particular.  My father patiently sensibly  pointed out how much work it took to maintain a house, yardwork, responsibility, etc etc. He cautioned against it.  I listened to his advice.  He left after lunch.  Sara called, said she heard about a house, we went out that very afternoon and signed a least on a house with a swimming pool.  No wonder, I drove my father nuts.

So the shot is many years ago and many miles south....