Even though she spelled her nickname “Bettie”, this cul-de-sac is surely named after Alberta Horowitz (1914-2004), a neighborhood girl. Betty Way was carved out sometime between 1925 – a map published that year didn’t show it – and 1929, when an ad in the L.A. Times mentioned a house on the street up for sale by one Al Horowitz. County records from 1925 reveal that Horowitz, a local shopkeeper, and his wife Hilda were granted a sewer easement here on what was curiously called the “Pico Cahuenga Valley tract”, which was surveyed way back in 1896 but may not have been developed until the Horowitzes acquired the land. Since Phyllis Avenue is named for the Horowitzes’ other daughter and Hilldale might be for Hilda herself, it follows that Bettie/Betty would get her own street. In fact her 1934 marriage certificate with George Heaney (born George Goldenberg) revealed that she lived on Betty Way (as did her parents). The Heaneys and their sons Bob and Rick moved to Reno around 1946.
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