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Subject: Need 1950's Los Angeles Street Maps
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:32:30 -0700
From: Virginia R Hetrick PhD <[log in to unmask]>
To: Adonna Fleming <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi, Adonna -

A couple of things:

First, this area is actually only part of the West Side.  Generally
speaking, most folks here seem to consider the Westside as the piece
of the City of Los Angeles extending from north of LAX to Mulholland
Drive and from the Pacific Ocean to approximately La Brea, Highland,
or the 110 freeway.

It is not an officially named "neighborhood" which includes things
like Westchester (just north of LAX), Westwood (the area around UCLA),
MidCity (around the LACMA and other museums in that area) and Bel Air
(the area north of UCLA).  It generally does not include incorporated
cities which are enclaves within the City or City neighbors
(including, but not limited to, Culver City, Santa Monica, Compton,
and West Hollywood).

A good potential source would be LAPL.org which had a HUGE historical
exhibit of LA maps about two or three years ago (it was EXCELLENT and
GORGEOUS).  Another potential source locally here would be the Auto
Club of Southern California (our local brand of the AAA).  They have a
HUGE historic map collection, but I don't know how amenable they are
to ILLing some of theirs.

The neighborhood you mention has probably not changed much since the
1950s except for the (a) the addition of freeways and (b) expansion of
the Port of Los Angeles into the city, i.e., the basic street patterns
for the specific area are pretty much the same.

1.  The street in your list called Norman is probably actually
Normandie as there don't seem to be any streets, places, etc. named
Norman in that area.  There is a street named Norman Place in City
Terrace which is east of the I-5, i.e., not in this neighborhood.  All
the ones named Norman Street are in Santa Monica city or the Brentwood
neighborhood north which butts up against the Santa Monica Mountains,
i.e., not anywhere near the other streets you are looking for.

2.  The street named Fortuna  is probably actually Fortuna Street
which intersects Slauson just east of Compton that runs at right anges
to N, C, and C.

3.  Normandie, Central, and Compton (in that order from W to E) run
parallel in the N/S direction

4.  W 27th intersects Centra1, but not the others, just south of of
the I-10 freeway.

5.  Finally Newton intersects Central, but not the others, just north
of the I-10 freeway.

Picture is coming separately.

HTH.

virginia

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