It’s fun to think that “Hindry” is a play on “high ‘n’ dry”, but this street is most likely named for Willis Edmund Hindry (1870-1931), a wealthy mining operator and engineer originally from Denver. I say “most likely” because there’s no known connection between the man and this part of town, but he’s the only prominent Hindry I could find in the annals of the Southland. Hindry, his wife Mary, and their daughter Anita lived in a landmark Pasadena house built in 1909-1910 by Arthur and Alfred Heineman. Miles away, Hindry Avenue was named in 1917. A bizarre postscript: When Willis Hindry died, his widow tried to have him interred in a pyramid-shaped mausoleum in Santa Barbara next to August Sahlberg and Thomas Quirk, his old partners at the Esperanza gold mine in Mexico. She was ultimately refused and poor old Willis sat on ice for seven years until he was finally cremated.
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