Walter Mosley Bad Boy Brawly Brown Phoenix: London 2004 (2002), 311 pp. (1964)
Chapter 14
" . . . He lived in a rented house on a street called Ozone Court, only half a block from the beach. It was just a tiny tar-roofed structure, but he was the only black man I knew who had managed to get a place in that neighborhood . . . I planned to ask him how he got away with being in an exclusively white neighborhood . . ." p. 95
"Instead of going directly to my car, I walked the short block down to the beach. Santa Monica still had the feel of a small town in '64. Wooden buildings painted in primary colors, small storefronts that specialized in trinkets made from seashell . . ." p. 109