Monthly Archives: January 2014
Abandoning Fig: The High Cost of Cartographic Uncertainty
In September 1890 members of the Board of Public Works took a tour of the city. In the vicinity of Pico Boulevard, where Pearl met Figueroa, a discussion started about “opening Figueroa through.” The tour goers noted that the street stopped abruptly and claimed not to know “how it became obliterated and appropriated as private […]
Hero or Huckster: Harry Coyne the Dynamite Fiend
On the night of February 6 1896, an explosion rocked the slumbering West Adams neighborhood. “Dynamite fiends” had apparently attempted to blow up the house of Thomas Douglas Stimson at 2421 Figueroa (figure 1). Neighbors George and Frank Sabichi ran to help with their guns drawn. They fired at a shadowy fleeing figure, but the […]
LAvenues Project 