Guess I should get some sleep. I went down a really peculiar rabbit hole on newspapers.com - as you know, I've found some really surprising things about my mother and father. Well, every time you search you get new stuff - don't know why. Sometimes you'll get a new hit and then search again using the same info and it doesn't show up.
New information I learned: I knew my father's real first name was Emanuel, but he changed it and for us it was always Edwin C. Kimmel. Well, turns out he had another name, Edmond C. Kimmel - no wonder he changed it - he was arrested and charged with forgery and passing bad checks and went to San Quentin for probably a brief period of time. I haven't been able to find out any sentencing info. So, he changes his name and marries Ruth S. Ewing, who's a widow. That was after he got out of prison and they married, I believe, in 1935, which is when he opened his restaurant, the Kiru (KI for Kimmel, RU for Ruth). They divorced some years later and then she had the divorce annulled, which I don't really understand, and that happened in 1945, after he was already married to my mother. She had the divorce annulled because, according to her, he'd been married to a Jeanette Osborn and, at the time he and Ruth tied the knot, he was still married to Jeanette Osborn - this is all news to me, and I suppose that Jeanette and my father eventually did get divorced. I also found out that in 1944, the year my brother was born, my father and mother were living in the Los Altos Apartments on Wilshire, one of the most famous apartment buildings in LA history - still there. I wonder when they bought our house. That's my next search.
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