This was my first home in Los Angeles, after migrating from the mid-west at the young age of 18, and arriving on a Greyhound bus to have a new beginning in the city of the angel's. I lived in Echo Park on the 700 block of North Bonnie Brae for approximately nine years, and those were my fondest memories, especially the ducks, geese and swans at the lake and the "grasshopper" type oil wells just d…