The Golden Gate tract was set up here by John S. Maltman and Oliver A. Ivers (1860-1902) in 1887. This was decades before San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge was even conceived, but the strait crossed by said bridge was christened by John C. Frémont back in 1846. In Frémont’s own words: “To this Gate I gave the name of ‘Chrysopylae’, or ‘Golden Gate’, for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn.” In other words, the strait was a “golden” portal to trade with Asia. Ivers, an attorney and oilman originally from Michigan, had recently moved to Los Angeles from San Francisco, so the tract’s name may have been his idea. There was also an Ivers Avenue nearby – it became Elsinore Street in 1907.
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