“El Manor” – a bit of Spanglish for you – refers to Farrar Manor, one of the four tracts that established the Westchester neighborhood. It was developed in 1941 by Bert C. Farrar (1873-1960), a Michigander who got into real estate while living in Seattle. He came to the Southland in the 1920s and opened the Chevy Chase subdivision in Glendale. Chevy Chase and Farrar Manor remain Farrar’s most significant projects, although much of Farrar Manor’s original acreage was eaten up by LAX’s runway expansion, beginning in the late 1950s. (A street here called Ceylon Avenue disappeared completely after 1969.)
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