Named after civil engineer Linford Corey Lull Jr. (1891-1959). Lull was born in Kalamazoo, MI, where his father ran the Lull Carriage Company (and survived a horrific 1889 streetcar crash that killed six women). The Lulls moved to Los Angeles in early 1904; Dad wanted to get into the burgeoning automobile industry but died unexpectedly four years later. Teenage Linford then forged his own path, graduating from Los Angeles High School (where he was class president and a star football player) and earning two engineering degrees at Stanford. After serving in the First World War, Lull cofounded the Engineering Service Corporation, which laid the literal groundwork for countless homes and roads, including the tract that, in 1927, introduced Lull Street near Vineland Avenue. Lull, who never lived in the Valley himself, had a wife named Helen and son named Walter.
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