Saroyan's greatest success began with the publication of "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" in 1934. Saroyan rode a wave of successful books and story sales, throughout the rest of the 1930s. In 1939, he purchased a house at 1821 15th street in San Francisco. From "The Place of Places" by Dori Myer: "In 1939, he purchased the 15th Avenue house in San Francisco, where his mother and sister Cosette were installed. The neighborhood is called the Sunset District, and though it had been sparsely populated for many decades, it was built up and turned into a streetcar suburb in the 1930s. Up to that time it consisted largely of sand dunes blown in by the Pacific Ocean. Because the house wasn’t yet completed, Saroyan asked the builder Henry Doelger to set up an apartment on the basement level for him to write. Doelger was one of the first to create tract housing and urban sprawl, and he’s responsible for the “Little Boxes” in Daly City, about which the 1962 song by Malvina Reynolds was written. Saroyan’s customization of the house was meant to emulate his house on Carl Street, where he had been prolific. His mother and Cosette were to be given the rest of the house. By 1939, he wasn’t living in one single place anymore. He had his roots in San Francisco, but he was in New York also and tells us that he traveled to Mexico, London, and Paris, jet setting around and taking full advantage of his new wealth. He was dismayed that the basement apartment on 15th Avenue didn’t have a window like Carl Street, but soon found that the fireplace did the same job and he proceeded to write Love’s Old Sweet Song and Sweeney in the Trees there. Though not mentioned in this chapter, he also completed The Time of Your Life in that house." Saroyan lived in the house off-and-on throughout the 1940s, and at times in the 1950s, following his second divorce from wife Carol Marcus. From "Papa, You're Crazy": "We went in and talked, and then my father and I went downstairs to his old apartment, to his study, with bookshelves from the floor to the ceiling, and the pianola there, and the phonograph, and the bedroom with two beds..."