Los Angeles City Directory 1925, p. 1450 — no 'Murphy Jas J' at Bullock's yet: the only two are a Wilmington clerk and a telephone operator

Los Angeles City Directory 1925 · Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California · 1925

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Summary

The Murphy "Jas" entries of the 1925 Los Angeles city directory (p. 1450). The only two James J. Murphys listed are "Jas J clk r514 E Anaheim Wilm" and "Jas J phone opr r2514 W 6th". Neither is James J. Murphy of Butte, whose Murphy-Softley store there closed on 30 Aug 1924. He first appears in the 1926 edition ("Jas J dept mgr Bullock's h433 W 60th", p. 1508). Kept as negative evidence for the date of the move; one missing entry is weak evidence on its own (the canvass may simply have missed him).

In its time

Prohibition1920–1933

Places

Los Angeles, California (primary)

Story threads

The Pat-and-Ellen Murphy household — Butte 1887 to LA 1980

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Transcription

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--- directory: Los Angeles City Directory 1925 publisher: Los Angeles Directory Company year: 1925 pages: ['1450'] repository: Los Angeles Public Library, ResCarta-Web read_from: LAPL 600-dpi page images, 28 Sept 2026 (see provenance.yaml) --- # Los Angeles City Directory 1925 — Murphy household entries Read line by line from the Los Angeles Public Library's 600-dpi page images; LAPL's own OCR text layer garbles several of these lines. A ditto mark (") at the start of a line repeats the surname above it, here MURPHY. Lines marked `=>` are the family's; the others are neighbouring entries, given for context. Every line is shown in `crops/` (a plain crop and a captioned copy). ## p. 1450 — LAPL image 1430 https://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-Web/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=040428be-8b21-4de1-9b1e-3421068c0f1c%2Fcl000000%2F20150518%2F00000013&pg_seq=1430 ``` " Jas H rancher h3009 S Vmont av => " Jas J clk r514 E Anaheim Wilm => " Jas J phone opr r2514 W 6th ``` ## Abbreviations h householder (house) · r resides / rooms · av avenue · dr drive · blvd boulevard · W West · E East · S South · N North · dept mgr department manager · clk clerk · cashr cashier · slsmn salesman · slswn saleswoman · supvr supervisor · serv rep(r) service representative · staff asst staff assistant · sten stenographer · msngr messenger · Co Auditor County Auditor · SCTCo Southern California Telephone Co. · wid widow · jr junior · (name) wife's name · VE VErmont telephone exchange (Kelts).