Alla Road owes its name to a bunch of duck hunters. Back in the 1890s, this part of town was called “La Ballona” and it was a wide open landscape dotted with marshes and ponds – ideal for duck hunting. So in 1896, a group called the Alla Gun Club leased 700 acres here, which they used every duck season (October 1st-January 31st) until 1902. That was when Sherman and Clark laid streetcar tracks across the land to serve a brand new development called Playa del Rey, which they co-owned. The Alla boys had to move on: they rebranded themselves the Pacific Gun Club and leased new hunting grounds near Newport Beach. As a sort of tribute, Sherman and Clark built an “Alla Station” on their new line. It lent its name to Alla Road by 1905. After all this, I still have no idea why those duck hunters called themselves “Alla”.
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