Since there’s no such thing as “carolwood”, we must assume that “Carol” refers to a person. My educated guess: Caroline Letts (née Coleman, 1836-1912), whose son Arthur owned The Broadway department store and, more importantly, the land that would become Westwood and Holmby Hills. The English-born Mrs. Letts joined her son in Los Angeles in 1900 and died here twelve years later. (The Broadway was closed for a day in her memory.) After Arthur Letts’s own passing, in 1923, his son Arthur Jr. and the Janss Investment Co. – Harold Janss was married to Arthur Sr.’s daughter Gladys – subdivided this land. Harold and Gladys Janss themselves lived on Carolwood, as did Arthur Letts’s widow and her second husband, so the street was clearly special to the family. Its more famous residents included Walt Disney, Frank Sinatra, and Michael Jackson.
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