This is the house Philip K. Dick lived in during high school. Exact dates are tough, but Phil and Dorothy moved into this house 1711 Allston Way sometime after Phil sent the letter to Amazing Stories in March of 1944 and December of 1947 when Phil moved out of his mother's house and into a shared apartment with poets Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan.
According to Sutin, Dorothy's room was upstairs, Phil's downstairs. Dorothy would often come home late and simply retire to her bedroom. As a result Phil enjoyed some relative freedom and had an active social life with friends coming over.
It was while living here most likely that Phil began work at University Radio.
After Phil moved out, Dorothy moved away sometime before 1950 when census records indicate she was living about ten miles north in El Cerrito. The census from that year also seems to indicate that Dorothy had taken another job in charge of personnel at the Federal Department of Agriculture.
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