Los Angeles Driving Tour: Los Feliz Estates (Above Los Feliz Blvd, Below Griffith Park Observatory)

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Los Feliz Estates was a Japanese Family Flower Farm, that now  become the Los Feliz Estates.

After Pearl Harbor the family was forced to leave the land but they returned in 1945.

In the five decades before anyone called the Los Feliz Estates their home it was home to the Kuromi family.

Starting in 1917 they had a 99 year lease on the property which was their home and livelihood

A.H. Kuromi and his wife Royo ran a flower farm at 5149 Los Feliz Bl.

Early on they took their flowers to the downtown flower market with a horse and buggy and later had a retail flower business on Los Feliz.

They grew sweet peas, chrysanthemums, carnations along with several helpers who also lived on the property.

They all worked 60 hour weeks according to the 1940 census. The Kuromis had three children Aiko, Isamae and Haitoshi.

The oldest, and only daughter Aiko, later known as Alice Ito, for decades ran the Flower View Gardens shop on Western Ave.
This information came from the "Shades of LA Interview Project" by the LA Public Library. 

See below for links to much more fascinating info.

After Pearl Harbor the family was forced to leave the land. When they returned in 1945 all of their equipment had been stolen and they had to start over. But they rebuilt the business and grew flowers here until the land was sold in 1961. In 1963 it became known as the Los Feliz Estates.
1940 Census lists 20 people including the Kumori family residing on what is now Los Feliz Estate.
The links below are to the Los Angeles Public Libraries  "Shades of LA Interview Project"

Transcript of 1993 interview with Alice Ito:

  http://173.196.26.181/catalog/shades/transcripts/Alice_Ito.pdf 
Audio recordings of the interview by Amy Kitchener:
http://173.196.26.181/catalog/shades/audio/Alice_Ito_1.mp3

http://173.196.26.181/catalog/shades/audio/Alice_Ito_2.mp3

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