Named in 1889 for Anton (1822-1900) and Elizabeth (1841-1937) Bixel, who lived on this very street. The Bixels were German immigrants who met and married out West. Anton originally immigrated to Cleveland, where he married Fanny Leindecker(?) in 1850 but apparently abandoned her and their two sons to set up a brewery in Columbia, CA, which he then sold to his brother Joseph. Fanny divorced him in 1859, yet her tombstone curiously reads “wife of Anton Bixel”. At any rate, Anton married Elizabeth Rupp at some point and the two moved to Elko, NV in 1869, where Anton sold beer, wine, and liquor. The Bixels started buying land in Los Angeles in 1885 and settled here permanently in 1887 to take advantage of the city’s big real estate boom.
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