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Old Posted Mar 22, 2014, 8:06 PM
Tetsu Tetsu is offline
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post



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:

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