Developer Everett E. Hall (1854-1936) named this street for himself in 1886. Born in Ionia, MI – he also laid out an Ionia Street nearby, now lost under the 101 freeway – Hall moved to Rapid City, SD in 1880 and ran a bank with his father and brother. He came to Pomona three years later to set up another short-lived bank but soon shifted west to Los Angeles and joined the team that built Rosedale Cemetery (now Angelus Rosedale). In early 1886, Hall partnered with William Wallace Stilson and a Minneapolis-based investor named William McCrory to buy 200 acres from Victor Beaudry and set up a tract they dubbed “Angeleño Heights”. Hall was also behind the stillborn “Sunset” townsite (present-day Westwood) in 1887 and helped establish both “Soldiers’ Home” (now the VA – see Veteran Avenue) and the town of Burbank in 1888. He and Helen McAllaster were wed in 1886; they had one son, Herbert Allison, whose middle name was a nod to Hall’s brother (see Allison Avenue), but the little lad died at five months – not long after the death of his uncle. Helen divorced Hall in 1895 and Hall married Alice G. Severns three years later. It was a happy if childless union that ended with Alice’s death in 1919.
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