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Originally Posted by oldstuff
The name of the business where the man is looking out the window on page 452 appears clearer around the corner of the building The business is W.M. Garland Real Estate. Mr William Marshall Garland was born in Maine. His wife's name was Blanche and they had two sons, William Marshall and John. The family lived at 755 West Adams in 1910. They appear in the 1910 census.
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Originally Posted by alester young
From Google Maps it looks as if the Marshall's old house has recently been demolished -a new housing development was under construction when the Google car passed by.
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The Garland house was actually #815 West Adams (the northeast corner of what is now signed St. James Place). 755 was the house to its east and was for many years the home of Frederick A Walton, and by 1930, his son (or stepson, depending on the source), Winsor Walton.
FULL STORY OF 815 IS
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FULL STORY OF 755 IS
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The Garlands were still at 815 (at right) in 1940; their real estate firm sold the Walton house next door in 1932...it appears to have been demolished within the decade.
The firm was famous for its population projections in ads; it wouldn't be until the '50s that L.A. achieved 2,250,000 inhabitants.
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Babcock Ancestry
I'm not sure when 815 West Adams were demolished, but it wasn't recently--its site and 755's have been part of a parking lot for years if not decades. I'm not in L.A. so can't drive by to see if anything is now being built there, though neither Google or Bing street views indicate any building activity that I can see. 755 was actually built on what was originally numbered lot 1 of
St. James Park, 815 on lots 3 and 4. 825 West Adams was built on the subdivision's original lots 7, 8 and 9 and was known as the Bilicke house before Paul Tobeler's tenancy. (The Bilickes were later at
#7 Berkeley Square.)
GoogleSV
The Bilicke/Tobeler house today--northeast corner of Adams and Scarff.
FULL STORY OF 825 IS
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Originally Posted by rick m
So many of W. Adams homes in these blocks between Figueroa and Hoover were razed in the Fifties - now its just a parking lot . Googling Wm. Garland eventually provided me their family webpage with 2 images of the once cozy Tudoresque home--
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The huge population growth of Los Angeles over the course of the 1910s and '20s (a nearly four-fold increase) had the effect of emptying West Adams--as well as the Westlake/Bonnie Brae district, recently discussed--of all but the most stalwart of prosperous Angelenos. Developers understood the city's population pressures and trends and went after the affluent by building new homes on larger suburban lots in less dense, more fashionable parts of town to the north and west, giving rise to Windsor Square, Hancock Park, as well as Beverly and Holmby hills, Bel-Air, Brentwood. (The Pasadena vicinity also saw growth as a result of the flight from the downtown districts.) During the '20s boom longtime owners saw their chances to cash out and move on; the onset of the Depression then made bargains of the old barns and cash cows for their subdividers.