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The home is rather hard to see. (perhaps you already know this, but I wasn't sure if you had already used google street views)

I'm curious...was the home quite a distance from the garage? Did it have a fireplace?

I remember we parked on the street...there was a gate by the garage and a long path which took us to the lower part of the house...we went in a door on the west-side...not the "front-door"...my great uncle had painted ivy or some kind of vines on the stucco around the door...I can't remember a fireplace as we spent most of our time in his studio (he painted and was a writer)...I remember the views west were sensational! Oh, speaking of "Noir"...he played Barbara Stanwyk's husband in "Double Indemnity"...(the stage was his first love, but he said he acted in films "to help pay the bills")...