My journey ends here...
1933
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In Spring, Norma Jeane had whooping cough. Gladys came and took care of her daughter at the Bolenders.
Monday, May 29, Gladys' grand-father, Tilford Hogan, having had serious illness issues, preventing him to
subsist to his family's needs, committed suicide (
). This new hung heavily in Gladys' depression and strongly convinced her of a family curse.
) died, hit by a car. Albert Bolender buried him im the garden and Norma Jeane remained inconsolable.
The Bolenders called Gladys, who took her child back.
Waiting for the purchase of a house, Gladys rented an apartment located 6021 Afton Place
(
), Hollywood.
To compensate the effects of the Great Depression, low rate home loans were offered to millions of Americans and Gladys, as a single parent, easily got one.
She obtained a $5,000 mortgage from the Mortgage Guarantee Company of California, which allowed her to access to property.
Wednesday, August 23 she paid a $750 deposit for the purchase of a house located 6812 Arbol Drive, not far
from the Hollywood Bowl (
). It had 6 rooms, was furnished with notably a Franklin white piano, which had belonged to actor Frederic March.
Gladys and Norma Jeane settled there at the end of August (
).
For helping her to easily reimburse her credit, Gladys rented a part of the house the an English couple, the Atkinsons. Gladys and Norma Jeane occupied 2 rooms upstairs, and they shared the bathroom, the kitchen and the living room.
George Atkinson had got small parts in George Arliss' movies. His wife Maud worked as an extra and their daughter Nell was actress Madeleine Carroll's understudy.
In September, Norma Jeane attended the Selma Avenue's school (
).
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