from 1956, partch lived in a house on the cliffs above corona del mar, newport beach. he often joined the cartoonists who regularly met at midday in the bar at the white house restaurant on the pacific coast highway in laguna beach: phil and frank interlandi, ed nofziger, john dempsey, don tobin, roger armstrong, dick shaw, and dick oldden. the gathering began after phil interlandi moved to laguna beach in 1952. "that was the first bar i walked into in laguna," interlandi explained in 1982, "and it became a habit."