Chapter 13
As he did every morning, Gustavo woke gazing across Franklin Avenue at the landmark mansion illuminated by the dawn. His bed faced his tall Spanish Colonial windows, which precisely framed the Mayan-inspired and historic home across the street designed by Lloyd Wright, son of architectural genius Frank Lloyd Wright, in 1926. A broad row of steps climbed the hillside, evoking an ascent to a shrine, leading to a mysterious copper-gated entrance overshadowed above by dramatic jaw-like protrusions of patterned concrete block from a pristine rectangular form. It remained a spectacularly bold structure today and Gustavo imagined the enormous shock it must have elicited from Los Angeles residents and tourists upon its completion almost a century ago.
Gustavo was also fascinated by
