More Tracing the Eagle Rock Creek

For anyone who was interested on my previous post on this subject, here is a photo from the ERVHS archive of the area upstream from Rockdale elementary school, to the west of where Vons now stands. The annotations are mine. The date must be the 1910s, shortly before the pictured vineyard of J. B. Jay was subdivided. Was it normal practice to allow cattle to graze a vineyard in the winter? Anyway, the creek can be seen running across the field, this whole area was obviously flood plain, therefore good for farming, not so good for houses. However, in the tried and tested fashion, the houses were built there anyway, and then everyone demanded a storm drain! Today, the exceptionally good tree canopy in this area (Neola/east end of Yosemite Drive) attests to the good soil and continuing presence of ground water.

This shows much the same area a few years later. The photo is taken from above Figueroa, looking west down Oak Grove. The vineyard is on the right, and the first Rockdale elementary school can be seen in the right middle distance, set back from Yosemite Drive. No sign of the creek, but there is said to have been a pond in the area between the school and Yosemite Drive. The barn-like building in front of the school on Wiota still exists, on the corner of the alley opposite the school.