Most likely named after Robert Carlyle Davis (1903-1969) as his father Joseph Jefferson “J.J.” Davis (1869-1954) owned the Palisades extension tract on which Carlyle Avenue was opened in 1912 (although it first appeared on a 1910 map between 9th and 11th streets). I couldn’t dig up much background on J.J. Davis – just that he was born in Ontario, Canada, apparently to Welsh immigrants – so I don’t know if Carlyle was a family name. What I can tell you is that J.J. came to Santa Monica by 1893, the year he set up an electric light utility company, and that in 1904 he was named VP of the Santa Monica Land & Water Co., subdividers of the Palisades area. Robert, the youngest of three boys born to J.J. and his first wife Emma, grew up in Santa Monica; indeed, the Davises had a home on Carlyle Avenue (at 16th Street) by 1928 and were still there when Emma passed away in 1951. Robert wound up working at his father’s oil investment company and married Theresa Korbel (1903-1984), of the Korbel “California Champagne” family, in 1929. They settled in Beverly Hills and had one son.
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