My dad had two different houses that I would be happy to have either one. The first one was a house here in So Cal. Dad had a wholesale trucking business. In the fall, winter, and spring he hauled nursery plants from the growers in So Cal to nurseries in Tucson, Az. In the summer time he hauled watermelons to grocery stores here in the Los Angeles area. We had 10 acres in the town of Norco, and he had a garage made of concrete block. It was big enough to hold 1 40 foot semi trailer van in one bay, the tractor and a bobtail in the second bay, and the car with a work shop in the third bay. There was also a 4th 1/2 bay with a room in the corner that he built for mom to store fruit and jams that she canned. I think that garage was 40 feet wide, 60 feet deep, and 25 feet tall! Man what a train room that place would make! I could put a floor in 14 feet above the ground floor that wouild leave room to install a lift for working on cars and the layout room could be 40' x 60' with a 9-10 foot ceiling! He spent $3600.00 to build the place in 1950, and sold it in 1958 for $36,000.00 and thought he had made a "killing." To buy the place back today would cost in excess of $2,000,000.00!
The other place he had was the house he bought after he sold the So Cal place. He had sold out the trucking business and started selling life insurance. He was then promoted and transferred to the San Fransisco peninsula. The house he bought there was a 2 story house with 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. The upstairs was layed out like a 3 bedroom 2 bath rancher. Downstairs was a 4th bedroom, a large family room and a 2 car garage with an adjoining space that was the same size as the 2 car garage but without the door! He bought that house for $25,000.00 and sold it 6 years later for $50,000.00. I would probably need $1,000,000.00 to buy it now!