The cafeteria business was definitely lucrative...all four Boos brothers moved on up in style and lived in some mighty fine houses, the best of which still stand.
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Henry's house at 1651 Wellington Road in Lafayette Square, ca. 1920...
...and now:
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The house sits on an impressive and unusual-for-the-street double lot.
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Horace's house at 535 S. Plymouth, ca. 1922...
...and now, with a southside addition in place of the porte-cochere:
Grand, grander, grandest: In the early '20s, Henry moved from Lafayette Square to 454 S. Windsor...
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...and by 1927, he had scored the Petitfils house at 545 S. Plymouth next door to Horace. It's L.A. Historic-Cultural
Monument #835, but still, I couldn't readily find a "then" picture....
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Cyrus eventually joined his brothers in Windsor Square at 555 S. Irving:
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Orlando remained more or less aloof from his bros, at least residentially speaking. Before moving to Manhattan Place east
of Windsor Square, he was around a couple of corners from Henry's Lafayette Park house, at 1739 Buckingham Road:
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Btw, right next door to Orlando, at 1727 Buckingham, is the house that some insist was the Cleaver's second Mayfield
house...see this prior post:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1799
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