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Old Posted Jan 11, 2013, 9:22 PM
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Brokaw & Beachwood/Hollywood Toyota/Toberman

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire View Post
Brokaw Place ran from H'wood Blvd south a block to Carlton Way...
There was also a Beachwood Drive, five-foot-wide public right-of-way through the Toyota Dealership (the first Toyota sales facility in the US) at least into the 1970s. It too has been vacated.

The first two sentences in the clipping you posted below was of interest (to me anyway) as it ties in to what you told us before about Toberman's new house:



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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire View Post
...1749 N Harvard, which was from about 1907--according to some sources when the house was built, and when Harvard in these precincts was Crown Avenue--to his death in 1924 the home of Ralph S. Toberman, son of Mayor James R. Toberman and cousin of Hollywood developer Charles E. Toberman who lived next door at 1761.. .
I don't know if "Maj Toberman" was Ralph or Charles.
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