DWCAP – yes – I’m white… pasty white. But my parents were HORRIFIED when I moved out 2 weeks after my 18th birthday… mainly because I didn’t go straight to college. They put up roadblocks (didn’t let me take the bed and dresser from my parents house – I had to buy used stuff), but I was determined.

BG – LOL on the LPs displayed in the oh-so-stylish cinder block and board shelving system. I had that as the primary design element of my first studio. I got quite the deal on it – $125/month for a studio in this place… I swear I’m shocked it hasn’t slid off the cliff yet.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=3901+Witherby+Street,+San+Diego,+CA&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=3901+Witherby+St,+San+Diego,+CA+92110&gl=us&ei=6OIXTKHJPJGUnQeArpCiCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ8gEwAA
(It’s not the upscale blocks of Witherby nice Mission Hills stock – it’s the dead end of W. California… then you look down and see a little 4-plex of studios perched half way down the cliff.)

Everytime I drive by on the freeway I laugh that the building is still there.