stucco

Beyond the memories, the only trace of the great man is La Casa — the rambling, Spanish-style home with a terracotta roof, stucco walls and inlaid ceramic tiles that Valenzuela built for his family during the exhilarating, and financially remunerative, days of Fernandomania.

Built around 1910, the stately, 2½-story, wood, brick and stucco Craftsman home at 1199 S. Pasadena Ave. is where Julia Child was raised.

It was a little yellow stucco house, and like so many in South L.A. practically elbow-to-elbow with the ones next door.

It’s a wood structure with stucco — no overhang — and we treated the edges and the roof so that they do not catch fire.

Ironically, her husband, John, owns an insurance agency — and they couldn’t get traditional coverage despite their home being fire-hardened with a metal roof and stucco siding.