Ripple and Crystal streets were born on 1907’s Elysian Garden tract as tiny roads between Allesandro Street and Partridge Avenue. (That bit of Allesandro was actually called Edendale Avenue until 1912.) It’s not known who named the streets – although Susan Record Clark (1830-1925) owned the land, the “California Home Extension Association”, run by Tujunga founder Marshall V. Hartranft, subdivided it. Perhaps Ripple and Crystal were references to the nearby waters of the Los Angeles River? Curiously, another 1907 tract, fourteen miles away in Lake View Terrace, also had streets called Ripple and Crystal. (Both were later renamed.) Seems too strange to be a coincidence, but that tract’s owner Homer A. Hansen (namesake of Hansen Dam) had no business here in what you now know as Frogtown.
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