There’s not much left of Victor Street – the Hollywood Freeway bisected it in the 1950s – but it is named for French Canadian entrepreneur Victor Beaudry (1829-1888), little brother of Los Angeles mayor Prudent Beaudry (1819-1893). (Another brother, Jean-Louis Beaudry, was also a mayor – of Montreal, that is.) First running a syrup manufactory with Prudent in San Francisco in 1850, Victor was managing and remodeling his brother’s general store in DTLA in 1855 while Prudent was apparently in Paris. He later made his own fortune from the Cerro Gordo silver mines in Inyo County but would frequently partner with his brother on real estate developments around L.A. Victor Street was named by 1884 on his old land. Victor Beaudry died in Montreal four years later, leaving a widow and several children.
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