Michael Aushenker , Staff Writer | Palisadian-Post,
May 07, 2009. »»
But to Vickie Fante Cohen and Her Brother, Jim Fante, He Was Simply ‘Father’
Jim Fante is weeping. He sits across from his sister, Victoria, at the dining room table of her Sunset Mesa home. A watercolor of their childhood family home, the Pt. Dume hacienda nicknamed 'Rancho Fante,' hangs near the window, which boasts a panoramic view of the Queen's Necklace. A small, framed 1960s photo of John Fante, avuncular and distinguished with pipe in hand, stands on the kitchen counter.
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| Rich Schmitt / Staff Photographer Pacific Palisades became a part of Jim and Vickie Fante's lives. The Malibu-based Fante family shopped in the village and ate at House of Lee. "I'm sorry we don't have the house anymore," she says of their Cliffside Drive home. |
