Who built that hillbilly shack with the tiny front porch and an outhouse to match on the northeast corner of the busy intersection? Why a brick two-car garage with no brick house to keep it company?

A quarter-acre plot of desert silt with two pre-WWII cottages plopped down randomly, we dubbed it the Hillbilly Hell Shack. It was my home from 19922008. Also known as the El Monte Cat Ranch ...