LAPL
Lots of interesting L.A. history in this house. Fruit grower and oil refiner Harrington Brown found the land barren except for one pepper tree. He built a grand house and planted lots of vegetation. Seventy-two years later, it was barren land again (a parking lot still there today, enhanced by a Little Caesars). For more:
http://losangeleshistory.blogspot.co...histories.html