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Originally Posted by fhammon

BTW
Is anybody hip to the Farmers Field plan? Anybody know who the farmer was? I do. Maj. Horace Bell's farm stretched from the corner of Figueroa and Olympic to Union and Washington. They should name it Bell Stadium. There is still a little street near the convention center named after his wife Georgia.
They are both buried at Rosedale Cemetery...but I have yet to find their grave sites (help please)


http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=dfl&GRid=5836841

As part of a recent digital-zanja expedition, I neglected to specially mention two photos of Horace Bell's pampas-preferred Figueroa residence (1337 Figueroa Street, just below Pico). Easy to overlook the small print on one of the pictures with his name printed at the bottom and even easier to overlook his name on raised stone markers near the sidewalk, at the bottom of each photo.

fhammon and others have noted that Bell was a colorful character who had more roles than an opium addicted fiction writer could imagine. He wrote about early LA History, including the Bella Union. For more Bella Union, see http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5131064 ; http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=5393742&postcount=4541. Nathan Masters of KCET fame also wrote about the Bella Union here: http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/...ella-union-and-its-colorful-history.html The City of Bell was not named for Horace. That distinction goes to James George Bell and family whose 1876 home is pictured at bottom. One more tangent, Horace Bell's 1337 Figueroa address and its pampas was later developed for bowling.









http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...iniscences_of_a_Ranger_-_Horace_Bell.jpg



http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/2012/295/5836841_135091807547.jpg
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http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/2003/146/7500792_1054074798.jpg


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From Elisabeth L. Uyeda's LA Revisited site http://losangelesrevisited.blogspot.com/2011/10/before-convention-center-staples-center.html

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James George Bell and his wife Susan Abia Hollenbeck Bell, and their two children, Maude Elizabeth and Alphonzo Sr. moved from Los Angeles where they lived for a short period with Susan's brother, John Hollenbeck, in their Victorian style home — the Bell House, now a historic landmark located at 4401 East Gage Avenue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell,_California

http://www.streetgangs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Bell_House.jpg