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  • Built in 1924 on Lot 132 in Tract 6388
  • Original commissioner: oil-drilling contractor William Overton Todd
  • No architect is cited on the original building permits for a two-story, nine-room residence and a one-story, 23-by-20-foot garage at 463 South June Street issued by the Department of Buildings on August 14, 1924; the contractor noted is Charles A. Draper
  • Born in Chain of Rocks, northwest of St. Louis, on February 20, 1878, William O. Todd married 28-year-old Fayetteville, North Carolina, native Lucy Evans on July 10, 1908. As they followed his career in the oil business, the Todds lived briefly in Lafayette, Louisiana, before moving west to Kern County. The Todds were living back in east Texas for the births of William Overton Todd Jr. in January 1917 and of Betty in December 1919, with William and Lucy then enumerated in the 1920 Federal census as living in the Canal Zone, where he was then working. By 1923 the whole family was living in Los Angeles, first renting an apartment on North Kenmore Avenue and then a house on South Kingsley Drive before buying their lot in Hancock Park and building 463 South June Street
  • Once the Todds had settled on June Street, they would live quietly for decades, their apparent major event of the '30s being Betty's wedding in the garden of 463 South June on June 21, 1939. Her groom was life-insurance salesman Duane W. Edmonds, a native Idahoan and Stanford man; the Edmonds would go on to have four sons in rapid succession
  • During the war, Army First Lieutenant William O. Todd Jr. was held prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines from late 1942 until being liberated after V.J. Day in September 1945
  • The year 1949 was both happy and sad for the Todds. In June William Jr. married Doryce Platt not in her hometown of Houston but at 463 South June Street. On November 5, Lucy Todd died at the age of 69; she would miss the birth of William and Doryce's son William Overton Todd III the following April. The Todds would have another son and a daughter and move to San Marino before Doryce, 32, died at home there on Christmas Eve 1961 
  • William O. Todd Sr. was still living at 463 South June Street when he died at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica on July 26, 1962. He was 84. Identical obituaries in the Times and Citizen-News described him as a pioneer in the California oil industry, founder of the W. O. Todd Drilling Company, and as having been associated with Standard Oil of California for many years
  • Louis Daly, a manufacturer of store fixtures, was the owner of 463 South June Street by 1965. On April 10, 1969, Daly was issued a permit by the Department of Building and Safety to add a 21-by-38-foot swimming pool to the property; on May 14 of that year, he was issued permits to demolish the 1924 garage and replace it with a double carport; this appears to have later been become enclosed
  • The family of Salim Israwi, a co-owner of International Silks & Woolens, a retail operation on Beverly Boulevard, succeeded Louis Daly at 463 South June by 1975. Alterations to the property since then have included first- and second-floor rear additions to the residence 


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