Midwick View Estates developer Peter N. Snyder named this street in 1928 after his mother Fotini N. Sinadinou (1858-1930). (Snyder, a Greek immigrant, went by Panagiotis Sinodinos in his native land; he also laid out a Sinodinos Street here but it’s now part of Ynez Ave.) I don’t know much about Mama, owing to spotty records, but it seems she was born Fotini Dimitrakopoulou in Athens, Greece or at least spent most of her life there. She married Nikolaos Sinodinos around 1877 – Greek surnames traditionally have different spellings for men and women, hence “Sinodinos” vs. “Sinadinou” – and they had four children. Presumably widowed, she came to SoCal in 1926 to live with her son; her other kids were also in L.A. at this point. Snyder and his wife Amalia (née de la Fuente) named their only daughter Beatriz Fotini Snyder (later Smith, 1920-1992).
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