Grape Street

I’m sure that long ago, vineyards grew somewhere along Grape Street’s current route. In more recent decades, its name has been associated with notorious gangs like the Grape Street Watts Crips. But back in 1904, Grape was simply the “G” in an alphabetical series of tree-themed streets laid out in the Burkhard Home tract, located due south of Firestone Boulevard (then still part of Manchester Avenue). It’s harder to recognize that alphabetical layout these days, since Ash Street is now Graham Avenue, Cedar Street is Holmes Avenue, and Date Street is Bandera Street. If you’re curious, the “Burkhard” is for tract owner Joseph Burkhard (1848-1928), a banker and life insurance exec.