September 1965 "The Big Yellow House" at 95 Laurel Ave., one of the most familiar of Larkspur's vintage homes, perched up on the hill overlooking downtown and just about every thing else. But we grew up knowing it as "The Big White House," as you can see by clicking the thumbnail below. This view is now obscured by another house that's since been built. We never knew any of the people who lived there, but I'd always take a peek at it when I visited Eden St. Now called "Eden Lane," it joins Myrtle Ave. and Laurel, and is one of Larkspur's four-letter stairway streets. Being the only one of those besides our own Arch St. that was fully developed into a concrete staircase with iron railings, Eden St. always seemed to me to be an alternate-reality or ghostly version of the street we lived on. The effect was heightened by the fact that the city didn't maintain it, and the concrete stairs were generally covered with leaves, and brush and weeds tended to overgrow the railings. For some reason, we never got around to taking a picture of Eden St. until 2002; see it by clicking here. click thumbnail for 1955 view of 95 Laurel
Ansco Color slide (1955) by Will Penna |
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