First picture together

[ashetlandpony]

This is the first photo of my parents-to-be together as a couple. How do I know? It says so on the back! The date is June, 1950. (They would be married a little over a year later, in September, 1951.) Although this is a familiar picture to me, I didn't know the location until fairly recently. I can now identify it as the lawn in front of Mom's old apartment at 1045 S. Norton St. in Los Angeles. I think I can also reasonably surmise that the photographer was Anne Rooney Swenson, Mother's roommate at the time...