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X03 — Janurary 1898, Barrett Villa Lots for Sale
X04 — 1898, George Wiseman Lays Out new Town
X06 — Grading the Streets of the New Township
X07 — September 1898 Temporary Barrett School
X08 — February 1899 New Barrett School opened
X09 — July 4, 1899 Barrett Villa renamed Sawtelle
X10 — Early Days of Sawtelle & Thayer’s Hall
X12 — 1903 The Bank of Sawtelle Opens
X13 — Circa 1905 Santa Monica Blvd. & Sawtelle Blvd.
X14 — February 1901 First Map of Sawtelle
X15 — 1902 The Township of Sawtelle
X16 — General Oscar H. La Grange & La Grange Avenue
X17 — Mrs. Graybill and Captain Greeley’s Cottage
X18 — 1904 Gamblers, Whores and Sellers of Liquor
X19 — 1904 Sawtelle ought to Incorporate
X20 — 1905 Vintage Photos of Sawtelle
X21 — 1905 Westgate (Brentwood) refuses to join Sawtelle
X22 — The Pacific Electric Railway
X23 — 1906 Sawtelle Incorporates as a City
X24 — 1906 Citizens State Bank
X25 — Dec. 1906 Frank Langdon Elected 1st Mayor of Sawtelle
X26 — 1907 Fifth Street – Corinth Avenue
X27 — 1909 Thomas Price – Sawtelle Pioneer
X28 — Charles S. Martin – Sawtelle Pioneer
X29 — Junipero Serra Sycamore tree in Sawtelle
X30 — Year of 1910 Map defines Sawtelle’s Boundaries
X31 — 1910 Sawtelle Fire Department
X32 — Walter Armacost Horticulturist moves to Sawtelle
X33 — 80 per cent of Sawtelle is owned by Veterans in 1911
X34 — 1537 Corinth Avenue Apartment
X35 — Brockton avenue School Original Structure 1912
X36 — Nora Sterry School Original Structure in 1914
X36b –Two Barefoot boys in 1934 at Nora Sterry School
X38 — Sawtelle Streets Renamed to Civil War names
X39 — Corinth Avenue named after a Civil War Battle in 1919
X40 — 1920 Santa Monica Boulevard and Sawtelle Boulevard
X41 — 1920 Ernest C. Amling Floral Nursery
X42 — 1922 The Sawtelle Crown silent picture Theater
X43 — June 1922 Sawtelle is Annexed to City of Los Angeles
X44 — 1922 Sawtelle population is 4800 and in 1923 is 7800
X45 — Sept. 1922 William E. Sawtelle returns to Sawtelle
X46 — Oct. 1922 Sawtelle has a serious Water problem
X47 — 1922 Sawtelle Lions Club
X48 — 1922 The Little Shacks are disappearing
X49 — 1920s Sawtelle Fire Department Engine Co. 37
X50 — 1923 Gen. Patrick H. Barry and Barry Avenue
X51 — 1923 Sawtelle Boulevard School Main Building built
X52 — 1923 Sawtelle Looking to become Westwood
X53 — 1923 Aimee Semple McPherson in Sawtelle
X54 — 1923 United States National Bank
X55 — Sawtelle House Architecture
X56 — Tivoli Theater Grand Opening
X58 — Lark Ellen Home for Boys
X60 — 1924 The Horstmann Building Built
X61 — Who Lived on Sawtelle Blvd. from 1925 to 1948 ?
X62 — Who Lived on Corinth Avenue in 1925 to 1948 ?
X63 — 1925 Automobile Club of So. Cal. Map
X64 — 1925 Pontius avenue & D.W. Pontius
X65 — 1925 Sawtelle City Government
X66 — 1920 Sawtelle Fire Dept. Fire Truck
X67 — 1925 A letter to Rudolph Valentino from the Tivoli
X68 — 1926 Sawtelle becomes the University Center?
X69 — 1926 Bananas are Harvested in Sawtelle
X71 — Stoner Avenue named after Albert J. Stoner
X72 — 1926 The Fred Finch Funeral Home
X73 — 1927 Marion Davies to Host Christmas Party at Tivoli
X74 — 1927 The Women’s Club of Sawtelle
X75 — 1927 The Veterans Hall on Beloit Avenue
X76 — Ohio and Bundy Triangle Park
X77 — 1928 Sawtelle Community Builders
X78 — Sawtelle name changed to West L.A.
X79 — Actress Marion Davies Children’s Clinic in Sawtelle
X80 — 1928 11423 & 11425 Ohio Avenue
X82 — Stoner avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard
X83 — 1929 Bundy’s Key and Lock Company
X84 — 1929 The Queen of Sawtelle
X85 — 1929 First annual Christmas Street Decorations
X86 — 1929 West L.A. (Sawtelle) Welfare Association
X87 — The Nuart Theatre grand opening August 21, 1930
X88 — 1920s Classic Advertisements
X90 — 1931 – Stoner Playground
X91 — 1931 Santa Monica Bl. designated Route 66 in Sawtelle
X92 — 1932 Federal and Iowa Avenue
X93 — 1932 Barry and LaGrange avenue, SE Corner
X94 — 1932 Bundy and Idaho Ave. Crackerbox Houses
X95 — Nirk & Gregory 1670 Sawtelle Blvd.
X97 — 1935 Sawtellans seek Independance from L.A.
X99 — 1938 Slum Clearance Proposal of Sawtelle
X100 — 1938 Map of the Westside
X101 — Mike Sapien of Mexican Ancestry remembers Sawtelle
X102 — My Family of Mexican ancestry in Sawtelle 1930s 1940s
X103 — 1939 HOLC Map of Sawtelle Poverty area
X104 — 1939 The Hotel Brooks on Sawtelle Blvd.
X105 — World War II in West Los Angeles
X106 — 1940s—Nora Sterry School
X196 — Darla Hood of “Our Gang comedy” in Sawtelle 1941
X107 — Marilyn Monroe in Sawtelle 1938
X108 — Marilyn Monroe in Sawtelle, California 1941
X109 — Marilyn Monroe – Sawtelle’s girl
X110 — Marilyn Monroe send off Letter from Aunt Ana Lower
X110B– Marilyn Monroe 2nd Letter from Aunt Ana Lower
X111 — Actor Robert Redford’s Childhood home in Sawtelle
X112 — 1947 Social Status of Elementary School Students
X114 — 1950s The West End Studios Hotel
X115 — 1950s Sawtelle’s Golden Age of Dingbat Apartments
X116 — 1930s and 1940s Family Photos from West L.A.
X118 — Foster’s Freeze West L.A.
Sawtelle California 1897 to 1950 