This is the north-south Gage Avenue. Two and a half miles away is the east-west Gage Avenue. Separate streets, named for the same person, decades apart. Confused? It’s understandable. This Gage Ave. started out in 1887 as Gage Street. Its namesake: Henry Tifft Gage (1852-1924), a powerful L.A. city attorney who would be elected governor of California eleven years later. (For more on him, see that other Gage Ave.) Henry Gage was close to fellow lawyer Henry T. Hazard, who subdivided this neighborhood and named this street for his old friend. (“Frenemies” might be a better word for these two: in one 1891 incident, while fighting over five dollars, Gage shoved Hazard – then mayor of Los Angeles – through a plate glass window.) Gage Street became Gage Avenue in 1937 by bureaucratic decree.
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