Named for John Andrew (or Andor) Marney (c. 1885-1946), who at the time – 1927 – was director of sales for the City Terrace subdivision, a Walter H. Leimert development. (Nearby streets like Seldner, Farquhar, and O’Sullivan also honor Leimert people.) Marney was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, allegedly came to the U.S. at sixteen (I suspect he Anglicized his birth name, whatever it had been, into “John Marney” upon immigration), and was clerking in an Army kitchen at the Presidio of Monterey by 1912. He married Austrian immigrant Irma Dorothy Schiffman (1897-1985) in San Francisco three years later. After serving in some capacity in WWI, he and Irma were living in New York in 1922 when their daughter Marjorie was born. Marney landed his first SoCal gig in 1925: assistant sales manager for Culver City founder Harry H. Culver. He continued to sell Southland real estate until a heart attack cut his life short.
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