The aptly nicknamed Skinny House at 708 Gladys Avenue (corner of 7th Street) in the Rose Park neighborhood of

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, is a narrow three-story

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that has been cited by both the

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and

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as the nation's skinniest house. The yellow-

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ed house was built on a lot measuring by in 1932 by Newton P. Rummonds, who received the land as a repayment for a $100 loan one year earlier. He built the house after someone bet him that he could not build a habitable house on such a small lot. In 1959, it was discovered that the house had leaned to the north and was straightened. The Skinny House is a registered city landmark of Long Beach, California, as of 1983. Public interest lawyer

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maintained his law practice in Skinny House between 1977 and 1981, including his prosecution of the

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case. The house was featured in a segment of ''

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''.

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