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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
While I was in the area I couldn't help but notice how this one street divides into two.
google aerial
and a bit further south another street does a squiggly-like maneuver.
google aerial
but I got a bigger surprise when I zoomed out.
Further east there's some truly elaborate street planning going on.
google_earth
Does anyone know the history of this particular area and when it was initially laid out? (maybe we've talked about it, but I don't think so)
The layout is really impressive.
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Hey
e_r, I realized I do have a little info on this area. Couldn't find a single thing on it online, but according to Winter & Gebhard's "An Architectural Guidebook To Los Angeles," the area was called Montebello Park and was laid out by New York-based landscape architects Cook & Hill in 1925. According to the 70's edition of the book, only the streets were laid out at the time, explaining why the area is filled with mostly nondescript post-WWII homes. For some reason they took that bit of info out of the later editions of the book: