{"id":474406,"date":"2023-01-07T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=474406"},"modified":"2023-01-08T01:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T01:01:27","slug":"beach-houses-have-more-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/beach-houses-have-more-fun","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beach Houses Have More Fun\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The line of beach houses breaks at the Topanga Canyon Boulevard intersection. A dog stands below the Franklins&#8217; house (middle), while a child stands below the Macks&#8217; house (left). Photo by Joseph J. Lilley.Row of residences housed several interesting families throughout the 1930s and &#8217;40sPart of a series on overlooked Malibu historyJust past the Malibu Feed Bin, on Topanga Canyon Boulevard, was Weber&#8217;s Tow Yard. In 1941, Louis Franklin (1904-1979) went there to buy a junk car for The Globe Auto Wrecking Co. in downtown LA.Bob Weber (1888-1957), who lived in an adjoining house with his wife Katherine (1886-1972) and nephew Frank Weaver (b. 1910), mentioned a beach house that was for sale. Louis jumped at the opportunity, and made this his family&#8217;s vacation home for the next 13 years.Weber&#8217;s Tow Yard resembles a fictional place in the detective-book series &#8220;The Three Investigators,&#8221; first published in 1964 by Robert Arthur Jr. (1909-1969), about three boys who solve crimes in Rocky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Row of residences housed several interesting families throughout the 1930s and &#8217;40s. Just past the Malibu Feed Bin, on Topanga Canyon Boulevard, was Weber&#8217;s Tow Yard. In 1941, Louis Franklin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-news","category-real-estate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}