The Picture below of the Cozy Court is from a 1947 Post Card. The Main Office was located at 2222 Sawtelle Boulevard in Sawtelle, West Los Angeles. The Cozy Court was located on the SE corner of Sawtelle and Olympic Boulevards. Mr. S. S. Gross (according to the May 31,1940 Olympic & Purdue article below) began the development of the Cozy Court in 1930. The 1938 Street directory indicates 92 persons are named as living in the Cozy Court. See the Link: Who Lived on Sawtelle Boulevard in 1925, 1936, 1938 & 1948 ?
The Cozy court expanded in the 1930s. In the 1930s & 1940s, the Cozy Court was a respectable place where out of town visitors from places like San Francisco, Detroit & San Diego would stay. By the 1970s and the 1980s, the Cozy Court changed and became a hub for low income hispanics and illegals packing in and paying low rent. The small housing units were originally constructed cheaply. One could wrap a towel over your hand and punch your fist thru the living room wall, the walls were flimsly built.
Raleigh Enterprises, a Los Angeles-based developer and real estate firm with movie studios and first-class hotels, bought the Cozy Court property in 1987 for $7.5 million. The Cozy Court was eventually demolished in 1988 and a new commercial Development was constructed on the site (South East corner of Sawtelle Boulevard and Olympic Boulevard. See the link: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-17-we-36417-story.html
The Layout below is copied from the West Los Angeles 1948 Sanborn Map, courtesy of the Los Angeles Central Library. The Cozy Court final development had approximately 146 small Living Units.
In the 1938 Newspaper Article below, we see the additional construction to the existing Cozy Court with12 units to be located at 2206 Sawtelle Blvd. shown in the red Box and 12 smaller units were to be located at 2212 Sawtelle Blvd. shown in the Blue box.
February & March 1940 Cozy Court Registrations
The Cozy Court in the 1940s had some respectable people living in the Court. Here are some registrations listed as published in the March 2, 1940 West Los Angeles Independent.
Here are some registrations of the Cozy Court listed as published in the Feb. 16, 1940 West Los Angeles Independent Newspaper, Los Angeles Central Library.
The Olympic & Purdue Court
The article below is the new Olympic & Purdue Court built in 1940 also developed by S. S. Gross & located 2 blocks west of the original Cozy Court, on the south side of Olympic Blvd. West Los Angeles Independent Newspaper May 31, 1940, Los Angeles Central Library.
Sawtelle California 1897 to 1950 