audrey sherwood's first 100 years

HAPPY CENTENNIEL BIRTHDAY AUDREY!!!

Celebrating 100 years of

ONE FABULOUS LADY!!!

Born August 18, 1913

Hollywood, CA

Audrey May

Stevenson

Proud “Mama & Daddy”

Berdie May & Gilbert

Stevenson

Built from scratch by Gilbert Stevenson (AKA Daddy)

The last house to have electric lights but the only house in Hollywood with a basement!

6714 Lexington Avenue (AKA 1133 North Las Palmas)

Mama & Daddy with Lester, the 1st born,

on the Lexington property

Lester & Audrey

Baby Milton

Called to Heaven by God

Laid to rest

at Hollywood Cemetery

Little Sister Lorraine

Audrey & Lester with

Little Brother Homer

Lorraine & Grandpa CadesAudrey’s Grandmother

It took 4 hours to get from Hollywood to Daddy’s citrus

ranch in San Fernando driving over the Cahuenga Pass!

Lorraine in her playhouse that Daddy built

&

Homer with his dog

The “Corner

Grocery Store”

Audrey visiting it circa 2000…

…and perhaps on her way there, circa

1929, as Mama always sent her!

Le Conte Jr. High

9th Grade

Hollywood High School

Senior Yearbook Photo

Ariel View of Hollywood High 1927

Then & Now…

The Liberal Arts Building & Lawn (AKA the L.A. Building)

The Hangout for kids

going steady!

L.A. building

Library

Where Audrey & Bob

“hung out”

Where they never hung out!

Tsk!

Audrey and Lorraine with Frieda Dunbar

(AKA Partner in Crime!)

Corner of Lexington & Las Palmas

Audrey’s Beloved Woolworths!6410 Hollywood Blvd

An icon lost, but cherished by Audrey’s memory!

Bob + Audrey

Together

Forever

A Hollywood

Love Story

Bob as a youth

and as a young man

(hence the pipe!)

Audrey & Bob

April 3, 1936

…Through the years…

Audrey, Wilson Smith, June Tierney, Bob, Patty & Mama

On Lexington Avenue

Picnic at

Lopez Canyon

Top L to R

Lester, ?, Bob, Mama, Cousin Geraldine,

Lorraine, Aunt Lou, Claude Myers,

Elizabeth Hampton

Bottom L to R

Wilson Smith, Harold Helsel, Homer, ? And

Gilbert Helsel

Those were the days!

The day that Audrey stole a sheriff’s horse ~

(accidentally, of course!)

That’s what can happen when you stop at the local watering hole!

Vivian Dresser & Audrey

At Victor McLaglen’s Light Horse Calvary on Devonshire St.

Bob & Audrey with Gilbert at the San Fernando Mission

Mama on Lexington Avene

Along came Nancy!

Nancy Audrienne Sherwood

Born March 26, 1944

Nancy & Sharron*

*Audrey’s “Like a Daughter”

Debbie, Tammie & Jodi*

*Nancy’s “Like a Daughter”

Lorraine & Audrey…

…and with Lorraine’s son, Charles Kirpatrick

AKA Kirky

(or as a very young Nancy would

say, “Cousin Turkey”!)

Lorraine’s & Audrey’s

grandchildren

Paige, Steven, Debbie & Tammie

1990s and 1970s

Lorraine’s & Audrey’s Great - Grandchildren

Audrey & Homer at the Hollywood Palladium

(As her about the

Ronny Reagan story!)

Homer in later years

The Whole Gang at Kirk & Sylvia’s

Thanksgiving 1996

Grandma Audie gets promoted to

GREAT-GRANDMA!

World’s Greatest

Astrologer!

Audie’s beloved

Hotel del Coronado

Grandma Audie ~ Lovin’ the Beach

at The Del!

Balcony scenes

at

The Del

The original room 502…

…before Kate the Ghost became a commercial story!

Viva mexico!

The families that eat together, stay

together!

Cheers to the “long lost cousins”!

Discovering new

cousins….

Rekindling old

friendships!

The Swimming

Pool

50 years plus

and still just as beautiful!

Two Generations of…

…Swimming

Sisters!

The house where Grandpa Bob lived….

…And the House That

Grandpa Bob Built!

Built to last a loooooong time!

1970s

1980s

A place where sisters share

secrets!

The Playhouse

Grandma Audie’s Hand-Sewn Little House on the Prairie Dresses

Will there be a 3rd generation of wear?!

Audrey’s advice on how to live to be 100

years young…

…EAT, DRINK & BE MERRY!

Bottoms up!

and when she’s 100 years young!

The Hollywood sign when

Audrey was 10 years old…

HATS OFF

To

GRANDMA AUDIE!!!

10 50 100

Summer 2013

Celebrating Milestone Birthdays!!!