Named for John Henry Ramboz (1879-1960), banker, president of the Ambassador Hotel, and director of the Metropolitan Water District. Ramboz was born on a ranch in present-day DTLA. He was first employed by the Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles in 1903; eighteen years later, he was its vice president. One of them, anyway: William D. Woolwine, the likely namesake of nearby Woolwine Drive, was another. Both streets were named in 1923. John Ramboz died aboard a cruise ship en route from Spain to New York City. He had just wrapped up a European vacation with his wife Marie. There are worse ways to go.
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