DIVISION FIVK — NAMES. 359 



home place. In the boom time an extension of this thoroughfare was 

 opened up to Las Flores canyon, and an effort made to call this new part 

 "Prospect Avenue," as a name more likely to attract buyers. But that 

 name did not stick, for it is now called Lake Avenue all the way up. 



Little Avenue. — Opened by Wesley Bunnell, and plat recorded 

 November 30, 1883, six days after Martin Mullins had his Kansas street 

 tract recorded. Mr. Bunnell had joined with Williams and O'Hara in open- 

 ing Union street, then he opened this avenue from the end of Union street 

 as it then was, out through his own land south to Colorado street. He had 

 bought this land from an old bachelor named K. P. Little, who went back 

 east ; and as it was only a little short street, these two facts settled the name 

 of it as " Little Avenue." 



Livingston Place. — Opened and named by Wotkyns Bros. They 

 were all New Yorkers. Livingston Place in New York city was familiar to 

 them ; and one of the brothers who was very tall, — 6 feet i)^ inches — had 

 Livingston for his middle name ; and so they named it. 



Lockehaven Street. — Opened by Mrs. R. C. Locke, through 30 acres 

 which she bought in 1874. Named after her colony home place there, 

 " Locke Haven." 



Los Robles Avenue. — Opened by Hon. B. D. Wilson, in 1876, and 

 named from Gov. Stoneman's place at the lower end of the street, which 

 was called the " Los Robles ranch," or home. The street ended at Stone- 

 man's fence^ which still stands there and forms the south line of the city, 

 Los Robles is Spanish for " the oaks." 



Madeline 7?£'^z</. — Opened by Gen. Edwin Ward, and named for his 

 daughter Madeline, now Mrs. Kirk of Chicago. 



Madison Avenue. — First opened by Ed. L. Karris and Dr. Wm. Con- 

 verse, in 1885. Dr. Converse was from Chicago, and he named their new 

 street from Madison avenue in that city. 



Marengo Avenue. — Also opened by B. D. Wilson ; and named from the 

 " Marengo ranch " at its south end, then owned by H. D. Bacon, but now 

 much divided up. 



Mary Street. — Messrs. W. C. Mosher and B. F. Ball owned colony 

 tracts adjoining each other and extending from Fair Oaks Avenue west to 

 Vernon Avenue. In the boom time they wanted to open a street along their 

 joint line, and were for some time in a quandary about what name to give 

 it. But finally Mr. Mosher spoke up with a sudden impulse, "Frank, 

 your wife's name is Mary, isn't it ? " 



"Yes, her name's Mary," replied Ball. 



" Well, my wife's name is Mary, too. We'll call it Mary Street,'' said 

 Mosher. And that settled the matter. Mary street it went, — though 

 " Two Marys street" would fit the case more historically. 



Maylen 5/r^^/.— Opened by Mrs. R. E. Burnham, in 1886. Her father's 



