 Smith and his wife, Denny, lived in the same house in the Mount Washington, Los Angeles neighborhood near Downtown L.A. from 1950 until his death in 1996.Smith was such a proponent of the Mount Washington neighborhood, that a 3.2 mile out and back trail up the mountain bears his name (the Jack Smith Trail).In May 2004, Mount Washington Elementary School broke ground on the Jack and Denny Smith Library on their campus.