Misnamed for William Henry Hoefener (1895-1944), a real estate broker who at the time (1922) was secretary and treasurer of Carlin G. Smith Inc., developers of the Eastmont tract. Hoefener was born in Los Angeles to German immigrants. After fighting in World War I – on his draft card, he unsuccessfully sought an exemption on the grounds that he was German – Hoefener worked as a shipping clerk before Smith hired him c. 1921. He and his wife Elsa (née Muck, 1897-1978) lived on June Street in Hollywood during the 1920s, but after their only child Marguerite died at six from polio, they relocated to Eastmont, living first on Belden, then on Bradshawe. (It must have irked them to see their surname misspelled on nearby street signs.) William Hoefener was felled by a coronary thrombosis in June 1944, just one month after Elsa finalized her divorce from him. You could argue that the stress of the separation killed him.
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