The Street Seen: Bay View Tract
Ocean Park
The Bay View Tract is a 1901 sub-division of part of the Kinney & Dudley Tract.
The Bay View Tract is a 1901 sub-division of subdivision of part of Block 9, Block 10, Block 11, and part of Block 12 of the Kinney & Dudley Tract by Kinney and Matilda Dudley.1 The southern half of the tract is in Venice - the subdivision ignores the city boundary location.
The Bay View Tract includes 108 lots of 25-ft by 100-ft, extending from Pier Avenue on the north to Navy St on the south and between the Pacific Ocean and the railroad right of way (Nielson).2
Streets established with the Bay View Tract:-
Pier Ave -
Marine St - M street
Naval St - N street becomes Navy St
After the 1898 death of Francis Ryan, Matilda Brooks Ryan marries T.H. Dudley in 1899.
There is no overall plan for the development of Ocean Park. The Kinney & Ryan resort along the ocean, and the Lucas Ranch in the hills to the east are independently subdivided. Between the two is the railroad right-of-way. The result is dead ends, non-aligned, and confusingly named streets. In pre-automobile days, this is less of a problem.