Golden Gate Avenue

The Golden Gate tract was set up here by John S. Maltman and Oliver A. Ivers (1860-1902) in 1887. This was decades before San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge was even conceived, but the strait crossed by said bridge was christened by John C. Frémont back in 1846. In Frémont’s own words: “To this Gate I gave the name of ‘Chrysopylae’, or ‘Golden Gate’, for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn.” In other words, the strait was a “golden” portal to trade with Asia. Ivers, an attorney and oilman originally from Michigan, had moved to L.A. from San Francisco around 1885, so he may have named this tract. There was once an Ivers Avenue nearby – it became Elsinore Street in 1907.