Named in 1922 on a small tract owned by Ludovic (1882-1961) and Henrietta (1884-1965) de la Torre. Although the Los Angeles-born Ludovic had deep roots – an early Spanish Californio family on his father’s side, an old Louisiana Cajun family on his mother’s – he lived a humble existence, working as a clerk for a local gas company and later identifying as a carpenter in city directories. He married Henrietta de Kersauson de Pennendreff in 1909; the elaborately-named bride was a French immigrant. They adopted two children, Louis and Lorette, and dwelled in various homes around the Boyle Heights area but never on their eponymous street. Curious family trivia: Henrietta’s twin sister Madeleine married Ludovic’s older brother Alphonse in 1906.
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