Late in 1924, the Hills (Carrie, Merton and kids) drove south from town on a narrow two-lane oiled road (Coast Highway) and turned toward the ocean on a street curving toward the beach (Oak Street).
Great-grandfather Franklin Reed built a small cottage on Ocean Avenue in 1903, about the time plein air artist Norman St Clair first painted in Laguna Beach and businessman Elmer Jahraus moved to Laguna and opened a cigar factory and curio shop in the Beach Hotel.
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