Architect Myron Hunt surveys the area where Occidental College would be built. The streetcar line runs straight along the right side of the photograph. Drains channel the water under the road and the tracks from the low-lying area that made travel to downtown by road unreliable. (Occidental College Library Special Collections)
The Occidental Academy offered a private coeducational secondary education in Highland Park until 1913. (Occidental College Library Special Collections, scarch-1235)
The East façade of Eagle Rock Central School Facing Chickasaw Avenue. A larger plot of land, part of the Gates strawberry ranch, was purchased. This building, which still exists, was built in 1917 as a result of a long sought compromise. A bond issue passed that financed this school and East and West schools. The ends of the valley had developed, and parents didn’t want their children to make the long walk to the center. Godfrey Edwards was the contractor. (ERVHS)
Union High in 1921 two years before Eagle Rock’s unification with Los Angeles led to the union of the Eagle Rock district with Los Angeles City’s schools. Union High would serve Eagle Rock until Eagle Rock High School was built in 1927. (ERVHS)
Union High graduates in 1916, including students from Eagle Rock. (ERVHS)
Rhea Ferdon was May Queen in 1913 at Union High. (Riki de Kramer, Ferdon Collection-ERVHS)
Eagle Rocks second school, built about 1909. This new craftsman style brick building accommodated, for a few years, the rapidly growing population facilitated by the new trolley service and residential subdivision.(Courtesy the Elena Frackelton Murdock family)
In the fourth location this school building was built on Maryland Street in 1914. (Glendale Public Library)
The same location in 1908. Commercial development and real estate sales (billboard in the foreground) had begun with the advent of the trolley (note the poles on Eagle Rock and Colorado Boulevards). A house is being moved down the middle of Colorado Boulevard. (ERVHS)