From A Self-Guided Tour of Saroyan’s San Francisco by Dori Myer: "After living in various San Francisco apartments with his mother and siblings in the 1920s, Saroyan landed at Carl Street, where he wrote The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. The family lived here in a second floor flat from about 1930-1939. From this location, he could walk to the Sunset Library or go farther to the downtown public library. This is where he became a literary sensation. This apartment is mentioned all over Saroyan’s memoirs and in stories. To start, it is name checked in “70,000 Assyrians” in The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze."