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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
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I don't know when "Hollywood Heights" was renamed "Los Feliz Oaks". Apparently Los Feliz had more cachet over time than Hollywood. When Fred Engstrum built Aremesia up there in 1913, its driveway (now Valley Oak Dr) branched off from Canyon and was just about the only thing there:
Most of the streets are called "(something) Oak":
the oaks homeowners association
google maps
Los Angeles Herald, Number 154, 23 March 1912
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=...hts%22-------1
More info
here,
here and
here.
Digressing more than a little, for some interesting background on Laughlin Park (as Laughlin Hill became) and Homer Laughlin's hopes for it, Irving Gill's and Lloyd Wright's involvement, John Crosse has done the homework
here.
Looking north over Laughlin Park in 1937, with the Japanese nurseries climbing the slopes of the Hollywood Hills below the Observatory:
hollywood photographs (detail)