Theodore Rimpau (1826-1913) was a German immigrant who came to Los Angeles in 1850. That very year, he met and married Francisca Ávila (c. 1832-1903), daughter of the late Los Angeles alcalde (mayor) Francisco Ávila. Rimpau then moved into the famous Ávila adobe on Olvera Street and helped run the family’s Rancho La Ciénega. In 1868, the Rimpaus relocated to the new German settlement of Anaheim, where Theodore had his ups and downs as a farmer but excelled as a shopkeeper. Several of the Rimpaus’ fifteen(!) children, most notably Albert (1953-1910), returned to L.A. and managed the family’s real estate holdings, which included a large amount of acreage near present-day Rimpau Boulevard, first christened Rimpau Avenue in 1906 and attaining boulevard status a decade later.
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