This corner at the intersection of Mission Village Drive and Irvington featuring the ranch house with the picket fence and towering palm trees represents the peak of the American Dream in San Diego during the 1960s.
The suburban house as mini-citadel,
Behind the walls of the citadel...
The house that is deep in the neighborhood of Mission Village yet on the edge of the canyon overlooking the newer pocket of suburbia below.
That little hamlet in the canyon, though, is a newer articulation of the American Dream after the older one fell apart in the 1990s.
