Since there isn’t anyone or anything called “Philiprimm” outside of this street, my educated guess is that it honors Philip Timon Primm (1890-1976), a landscape architect then based in Glendale. I can’t prove that he worked on Yolanda Square, the 247-home development on which Philiprimm Street was christened in 1950, but it’s certainly plausible. Primm grew up in Champaign, IL and earned his degree in landscape gardening at the University of Illinois in 1916. He and his wife Roslyn came to Los Angeles four years later, shortly before the birth of their only child Robert. Primm gained some renown in the 1930s as regional inspector for the National Park Service; he oversaw workers at the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Depression-era program that put unemployed Americans to work on civic improvement projects, and is credited with conceiving, in 1934, the restoration of the ruined La PurÃsima Mission in Lompoc. He remained on the mission’s advisory committee for over thirty years.
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