LOS ANGELES — To stand on East Boulevard in West Los Angeles is to get a short history lesson in the city's conflicted relationship with mental illness.
East Boulevard and its companion street, Marcasel Avenue (formerly West Boulevard) form the Mar Vista Oval, one of the region's first subdivisions. Laid out with broad sidewalks and parkways planted with Canary Island palms, the development was advertised in The Times on New Year's Day 1912.
"… no better place for a country home..."
