Quote:
Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
There must be others in the county, but the only 2-digit addresses I can think of within the city limits are in Venice, close to the beach. Some private streets, such as Berkeley Square, had their own 2-digit systems. This house doesn't appear to be in Venice, and I know it's not Berkeley Square. Could it be Hollywood before the annexations 1909-1915, which resulted in many address realignments and street-name changes? Could be in any number of towns in SoCal. Santa Monica? Pasadena? sopas, are you there to give us a little insight into address numbering in your vicinity?
|
Saint James Park, Saint James Place, and Chester Place, adjacent to the downtown campus of Mount St. Mary College, all seem to have or have had and address numbered 86. 86 Chester Place may still exist but GSV doesn't go there. For SJ Pk and SJ Pl, it appears that such an address may have existed but no longer, possibly having been replaced by a parking lot for the college. It's hard to tell because of the luxuriant greenery. I do know that for one stretch of SJ Pk, the addresses go from 92 to 44, or something like that and the intervening properties are long since lost to history.
I do wonder myself when the numbering got standardized and why Venice was able to duck out of it. FWIW the condemnation notice posted on the Avila house, just before its rescue by Christine Sterling, used a two-digit address, referring to it as something like "the house known as 24 - 26 Olvera Street". Even by then, I'm pretty sure that most of the street numbers had been standardized, though.
Quote:
I ran across the following link, which at first glance appeared to be the definitive story on L.A. address history, and maybe it is, but then it went off into quadrants and azimuths, nipple streets and parent streets... so I really only scanned it--but you might find something here:
http://libraries.maine.edu/Spatial/g...s/gi94040.html
|
I really must discover what a nipple street could possibly be.