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Looking at the Census page, and Google Maps of the area. Area is in West Los Angeles just south of a Veteran's Hospital, near the interchange of I-10 and 405.
Judging by. the variety of employers and occupations, not a naval base. Probably a large apartment building, or a very large "auto court" (what today we call a motel) judging by most tenants are couples with few if any kids.. Either no longer existing.
It also appears your GGF could have been within walking distance to his VA job.
Good job finding him. I'm running into a lot of name misspelling, both on NARA and Ancestry. Boggles me that so many Census takers had atrocious handwriting. :-(
Looking at the Census page, and Google Maps of the area. Area is in West Los Angeles just south of a Veteran's Hospital, near the interchange of I-10 and 405.
Judging by. the variety of employers and occupations, not a naval base. Probably a large apartment building, or a very large "auto court" (what today we call a motel) judging by most tenants are couples with few if any kids.. Either no longer existing.
It also appears your GGF could have been within walking distance to his VA job.
Good job finding him. I'm running into a lot of name misspelling, both on NARA and Ancestry. Boggles me that so many Census takers had atrocious handwriting. :-(
I think you might be right. I was looking at Long Beach, if you look down there.. There is a Pico Ave next to Roosevelt Base.. BUT.. I think you're right, and they just said Pico Ave instead of Pico BLVD.
Because I can find Federal and Purdue up in that area.
The bad part here.. the Santa Monica Freeway cut right through that area about 10 years later. So, the odds.. Wherever this is, doesn't exist anymore.
I posted about it in the LA forum.. Figured that was worth a shot, might get someone there who has some specific historical knowledge where that "O.C. Auto" might make some sense to them.
My grandmother and aunt are MIA in the 1950 census for St. Louis. My immediate family is listed, and we lived in my grandmother's house with her, but she is not listed. She had a habit of visiting her four grown kids and would even vanish for a couple days. Everyone thought she was with another of the families but not always (A mystery). One aunt (her eldest daughter) is also missing. My guess is that they might be together, wherever they are. The aunt lived in an apartment, and I remember being there but can't recall where it was in the city. I was 2 in 1950 but visited until I was 5 so I have a vague memory. She was married briefly and divorced so she might be under her maiden name or married name. I will need access to a city directory for 1950 to try to find the aunt's address.
This has opened up quite a bit.. but, honestly, the 1950 census has more than anything, been something of a kick in the butt to do more research
With some help from the staff at the Santa Monica historical society, they were able to search some old newspapers and find my GGF's obituary/funeral notice, and they found an article in the paper about his second wife's death.
And.. We think we've figured it out. We believe he lived at the Olympic and Purdue Auto Court, also known as the Cozy Court.
Basically what would in todays world be considered an Extended Stay Motel. Probably with cinder block walls. But, they were furnished little apartments.. Probably a kitchenette in them. I doubt they even had a 'separate' bedroom. The bedroom and living room probably doubled.
Seems sometime after my grandmother married and moved to SC (In about 1944), he remarried and left Long Beach.. Stayed at this "Cozy Court" for a few months until he found a permanent place down on the beach in Santa Monica.
Haven't figured out exactly when he moved to CA..But I know it was between 1940 and 1944.
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