George and May Morrison co-owned the 1922 tract upon which Morrison Street originated, between Lankershim and Bellflower. George Frank Morrison (1890-1982) was a Baton Rouge boy. According to his WWI draft card, in 1917 he was living in Sebastopol, CA and married. I found no record of this union or this residence; all I know is that he was based in Santa Paula in 1918 when he tied the knot with May Charles Duval (1893-1925), a popular girl from Saticoy (the Ventura County community, not the SFV street). After a short spell in Houston, the couple came to North Hollywood in May 1920 and purchased a thirty acre ranch that they would subdivide while George embarked upon his realty career and May tended to their young son Walter (1920-1985). Sadly, May was felled by pneumonia at the age of 32. George, who never remarried, raised Walter with the help of May’s mother. Walter Morrison had his own adventures: in WWII, he was a fighter pilot who escaped a POW camp in North Africa after being held captive for nine months.
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