De Longpre Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

The artist Paul de Longpre settled in Hollywood in 1889.  On arriving in Hollywood, he had traded three flower paintings for three acres of land near what is now the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cahuenga.

– so says Carey McWilliams in Southern California: An Island on the Land



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