Sierra bonita is Spanish for “pretty mountain range”, but this street was initially laid out just a bit south of the Hollywood Hills, on a 1911 tract that stretched between Fountain and Sunset. North and south of the tract, there was a different street known as Pacific Avenue. (It coexisted on the tract as well – but one block west of Sierra Bonita, where Curson is now located.) After some years of confusion, Pacific Avenue gave up its identity in 1925 and the entire street became Sierra Bonita.
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