Jack lived for two or three months in the summer of 1949 at 6100 West Center St. in Lakewood, Colorado. He used a $1,000 advance from his publisher on The Town and the City&nbsp;to pay for the house which he hoped to share with his mother, sister, and brother in law. His mother lived there for a month before returning to New York. Jack returned to San Fransisco in July of that year.