Nightwalking Part 2/1620 Oak

I never take the same route on my walks, it's pathological. For that matter, I dislike even driving the same route. My son will sometimes ask whilst in the car, headed to school or home, "why are we going this way?"
To which I'll usually respond, "because we haven't before."

Finding that "new block", the block I haven't sauntered along before, excites me. In those instances, I usually schlepp about, halving my pace, to take special notice. Sometimes I see things that cause me to return in the day. I saw such a thing on the 1700 block of Berendo.

Not for the watch-kitties at the corner of Berendo and Washington, but an exact copy of 1620 Oak Street. Yeah I know, other houses in West Adams and environs have a match.

Some new home owners, hoping for restoration clues, spend their free time driving around looking for a match. Sometimes a WAHA diehard helps out, "your first floor is identical to the Lambert's, only reversed."




Once I identified another pair of look-alikes, and as I paused to take a picture, the owner appeared.
"Your house", I trumpeted, "is identical to another on Cimarron."
"This is my house," he countered warily.
"Yes", I nodded, "and there's a house ten blocks away with the same porch details and windows."
"And the colors," he inquired.
"They're different, " I answered.
"Then they're not the same," he bellowed, slamming his screen door.