Reddit reviews All You Can Lose is Your Heart

Thanks for pointing this out! I did some Google Street views, and, as I suspected, a lot of the homes that have not been renovated in this area are what is known as Cinderella homes. These were midcentury storybook homes that they started to build in southern California in the 1950s.

They were called "Cinderella homes" because their layout was apparently supposed to help make housework easy and free the "modern Cinderella" (i.e., stay-at-home housewives) from the drudgery of housework.

If you want to read more about them, there is a photography-focused book entitled All You Can Lose Is Your Heart. It's also available for checkout from the Central branch of the library.