Michael Cohen

This was the front door.

You walked right in.

Fireplace was here.

Had a little entryway table here.

It had a, the guys drive around because there's no, there's not a lot of restaurants or anything anymore.

So the few construction sites that have people going, the taco trucks go to them, which is great.

So this is pretty much the whole thing.

Like that little brick wall is non-structural.

That was just a garden wall outside of the house.

And so there's this like front yard here where stuff is actually starting to grow back.

The olive tree is growing back.

This used to be like a big old olive tree.

One of the rose bushes is growing back.

Remember the orange tree that I showed you guys?

That little guy is growing back.

Bear's lime tree is starting to grow back.

There was a persimmon tree, a lemon tree.

Standing in the middle of Mike's plot, the neighborhood felt pretty empty.

There were a few brand new buildings a ways off, one or two structures that had survived the fire in the surrounding blocks, and a lot of space.

Even still, it was easy to see the appeal of Altadena.