This street is a ghost of the town of Garvanza, technically established by Andrew Glassell, George S. Patton, et al in 1885 but developed in earnest the following year by Ralph Rogers (see Nolden Street for his story). Annexed by Los Angeles in 1899, Garvanza was one of five separate communities that were combined into Greater Highland Park in 1922. The name is indeed derived from the garbanzo bean, a.k.a. the chickpea, which supposedly grew wild in the area. In Eine Blume aus dem Goldenen Lande (“A Flower from the Golden Land”), an 1878 travel memoir by Austria’s Archduke Ludwig Salvator, the author mentioned a “Cienega del Garvanzo” here; back then, the garbanzo bean was still a new concept to gringos, and so was its spelling. Garvanza Avenue itself was called Emerald Street from 1886 until 1900. (Ruby Street still exists one block north.) It was then known as Eagle Rock Avenue until around 1923.
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