re: #245 So Cal Greek Hippie
I remember that place!. My hovel was a one room 1939 add on to a house built in 1899. Very small, and dirty but cheap and walking distance to school. There was a dirt yard that I started to pull weeds on and discovered a buried flagstone patio.
Sounds like our hovel, with sleeping porches out the front and back and a gravel yard near an arroyo.