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Originally Posted by Bilbo
It is interesting to see some of the old menu's - but what an interesting address - "1815 1/2 Central Avenue" ?
BTW - any menu's from any of Billy Wilkerson's restaurants or cafes ?
Bilbo
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It's not all that unusual stateside, but is more typically found in residential than commercial districts. I'm not sure why this happened, but in many older residential districts there are lots of single family houses that have so-called guesthouses in the back, which are rented out to tenants. In many cases an address ending in "1/2" will be the guesthouse. It's a somewhat curious thing, because the main houses in question are almost always fairly small and ordinary houses themselves, in some cases not much bigger than the guesthouses which their owners rent out. They aren't in any sense stately homes or anything like that.