[fhammon]

These are all photos of Maj. Horace Bell's house at the corner of Figueroa (1337 address) and Pico.
His farm encompassed the land from Figueroa west to Union between Pico and Washington.
He later subdivided it into individual lots and sold if off in 1875 for $8,000 profit after he became an attorney at his wife's encouragement.
A street near the convention center, Georgia St,. was named after his wife Georgia Herrick Bell.
On some old maps you can see the area as named "Bell's Addition".
I believe this area is where the new stadium "Farmers Field" is/was planned for construction.
Personally I would loathe to see that happen. The fwy traffic is bad enough as it is at that 10/110 interchange.



http://www.thenativeangeleno.com/201...dfly-angeleno/

You can read his 1st book online here:

Full text of "Reminiscences of a ranger : or, early times in Southern California"

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Oh my God, I was just double-checking to make sure my 1880 'Pampas grass' photograph hadn't been posted before.

Well it hasn't, but two later photographs of the same house were posted by BifRayRock...and guess what,
the wooden zanja in my 1880 photograph was eventually replaced with a stone zanja a decade or so later.


below: Here are BRR's two photograph from the 1890s. (notice how the pampas grass has grown threefold!)


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16552



below: -five years later the pampas grass is almost mutant.







So maybe this 1880 photograph is worth $499.00.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/1880s-Cabine...item540e524624

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