Tuxedo Terrace, Aspen Drive, and Argosy Way were all named in 1921 on the Canyonview Park tract, owned and sold by John Richard Heflin (1880-1954), a one-armed widower originally from Kentucky. (Intriguingly, attorney Henry W. O’Melveny, one of the most prominent Angelenos of his day, co-owned the tract, despite never being publicly connected to Heflin.) It doesn’t appear that the names meant anything to Heflin, aside from sounding pleasant. Gentlemen were certainly wearing tuxedos by this point – the suit was inspired by Tuxedo Park, an upstate New York resort established in 1885 by tobacco heir Pierre Lorillard IV. (Tuxedo Lake predated it and was a native Lenape name.) Aspen Drive was more likely named for the tree than for the Colorado town, which in 1921 was not yet a ski resort. “Argosy” is a fancy word for a large ship, but I’m betting Heflin borrowed the name from a popular fiction magazine.
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