This street was given its monstrous moniker in 1927 on a tract that had only the Security Trust & Savings Bank listed as owner. Since “Zombar” isn’t a real name, I assume it’s wordplay. My best guess is that the bankers who set up this tract affectionately named the street after a fellow banker – namely John H. Ramboz (1879-1960) of Merchants National Bank and/or Sumpter F. Zombro (1864-1937) of Security-First National Bank. Both were prominent in financial circles, but I favor Ramboz because in 1927 he already had a namesake L.A. street (Ramboz Drive), so to avoid duplications the tract owners anagrammed “Ramboz” into “Zombar”. This is all just conjecture, mind you.
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