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Old Posted Dec 5, 2016, 1:40 AM
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That's curious. Was he originally from the Los Angeles area?


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Originally Posted by tovangar2 View Post
....before Arnold St became W 3rd St, it was Crown Hill Ave. By then the McFarland home had been numbered as 1340.

The area was considerably built up by the time of Mr McFarland's demise. The Flora Apartments were then in place next door to the east:


baist 1910, plate 7
T2, do you think this could be the Flora Apts. even though the sign above the front entrance says 'Floral'?


http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/31100/rec/10


"1334 Crown Hill Avenue, Southern California, 1926" [this is how the photograph is titled at usc]

-Why "Southern California" instead of Los Angeles? (perhaps they weren't sure this was actually in Los Angeles)



Here's a closer look at the sign.

detail


and the invoice

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/31100/rec/10

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