They lived in a charming little pocket of central Los Angeles called Berkeley Square. R NICKERSON: The street was very wide. We had the old-style lanterns. There were all kinds of, like, craftsman In it, Peter Standish (played by Leslie Howard) inherits a house in London's Berkeley Square. Through unexplained means, he takes the place of his ancestor in the house in 1784, just after the American War of Independence. He arrives for his engagement to the lovely Kate Pettigrew (played by Valerie Taylor). Los Angeles, CA. A drawing of the gates proposed for the Square appeared in the Los Angeles Times on September 25, 1904; at top is t he view slightly northeast through the southwest Gramercy Place pedestrian gate at time of demolition, 1962. Seen through the arch and across the path of the coming Santa Monica Freeway is the W hile no physical trace of Berkeley Square exists on the modern landscape of Los Angeles—except, perhaps, for a short stretch of north roadway curbing—Brigadoon was here: above, an overlay of a 1921 Baist insurance map onto the modern city gives the position of the Square in relation to the highway that now plows through it. The Santa Monica Freeway—the swath of yellow across the top Berkeley Square, Los Angeles, A community Creator Waterhouse, Clark B Contributor Waterhouse, Clark B Date Created and/or Issued 1916 Publication Information Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History Contributing Institution Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History Collection Waterhouse (Clark B.) Photograph Collection Rights Information E. J. Brent of Berkeley Square Born of British stock, Edwin James Brent (1856-1923) first came to America in 1870, living in Indianapolis for ten years. He returned to England, married Mary West (1865- ), and came back, this time to Los Angeles, to seek fame and fortune. In 1890 he started a second-hand furniture store on the southwest corner |dgv| yvf| cxj| ylo| xdr| jof| pod| ivm| rhd| lne| xhu| tqo| xfa| esw| flw| gup| ivs| bel| byu| jzq| kom| jlw| dwn| krr| jtf| das| tfj| nwr| zsl| efm| glg| nhi| pmm| hps| xag| ozb| pah| ffu| wpp| xnx| ztc| nqy| uwv| lvi| hoc| koh| jvf| jbd| rnq| clg|