Although it’s mostly considered a Mid-City street, Sherbourne Drive started out as a tiny hillside byway in West Hollywood – and its origins there provide us with the (probable) source of the name. Toronto-raised subdividers Egerton and Allan Shore (see Shoreham Drive) christened Sherbourne Drive in 1921. It’s quite likely that the “Sher-” in Sherbourne is a reference to Sherman, WeHo’s moniker at that time. (Town father Moses H. Sherman later gave his name to Sherman Oaks and Sherman Way.) But there’s also a Sherbourne Street in Toronto, and there’s no question that the Shore brothers knew it: Egerton, a former minister, sermonized at the Sherbourne Street Methodist Church on occasion. So I think our Sherbourne Drive is a case of the Shores honoring both their old home and their new one.
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