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Originally Posted by Tourmaline
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It just goes to show you that street directories aren't always reliable in terms of being exhaustive. It's not uncommon for existing addresses to be skipped over entirely, even ones that had existed for many years by the time the directory was published.
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Available on-line CDs are somewhat incomplete, especially for the time periods involved. This often makes recognizable names seemingly impossible to locate. In some instances printed directories had amended editions for the same year. Other, perhaps less obvious clues include " Talli's Imports" and the 420 on the nearby awning.  |
You wouldn't think they'd be this incomplete. It's not like a whole street or portion of the street's missing; rather the beginning and end points of a block are certainly listed, but known addresses in between are missing. For example, 9500 Cherokee Lane was built around 1915, and 2200 Bowmont Dr* was there in the early 1950s, but both are missing in the 1956 street address directory.
The issue of the later editions of the Pactel directory omitting almost all of West L.A. and Palms is a different issue, and a very frustrating one for those wanting to research the history anywhere outside the pre-war urban core. Those areas aren't "missing", instead, the publishers left them out deliberately.
*Both in BHPO 90210.
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I think you're correct t2. Good eye.
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