In 1927, with the money the Disney's were earning from the Oswald cartoons, Walt and Roy bought matching homes on Lyric avenue in Silver Lake, near the new studio. The prefabricated homes were small, just 1100 square feet, with only two bedrooms, a living room, dining room and kitchen. It was at Walt's garage on Lyric Avenue that he and his loyal animators in secret worked on the first Mickey Mouse cartoon.