Los Angeles City Directory 1928 — 'Murphy Jas J dept mgr Bullocks h4339 Victoria av'

Los Angeles City Directory 1928 · Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California · 1928

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p. 1564: **Murphy Jas J, dept mgr Bullocks, h4339 Victoria av** (printed without the apostrophe). Still a department manager at Bullock's, now the householder at 4339 Victoria Avenue, the address of the 1930 census household. This entry joins the Bullock's department manager of 1926-27 to the 4339 Victoria Avenue family of the later directories.

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  • Murphy Jas J — dept mgr Bullocks, r h4339 Victoria av
    = James Joseph "James J." Murphy (b. 1883 Ardgroom; d. 1938 LA) · 100

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    occupation: dept mgr Bullocks · residence: h4339 Victoria av

    Bullock's department manager of 1926-27 at the 4339 Victoria av house of the 1930 census (James J., Agnes R. and six children) and of the 1929-1939 directories.

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--- directory: Los Angeles City Directory 1928 publisher: Los Angeles Directory Company year: 1928 pages: ['1564'] repository: Los Angeles Public Library, ResCarta-Web read_from: LAPL 600-dpi page images, 28 Sept 2026 (see provenance.yaml) --- # Los Angeles City Directory 1928 — 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. 1564 — LAPL image 1576 https://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-Web/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=040428be-8b21-4de1-9b1e-3421068c0f1c%2Fcl000000%2F20150604%2F00000002&pg_seq=1576 ``` " Jas H slsmn H C Curtis Co r2121 W 9th => " Jas J dept mgr Bullocks h4339 Victoria av " Jas J water heater mfr h4314 S Hoover ``` ## 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).

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Source ID: 1928_los-angeles-city-directory_ladc-p1564-murphy-jas-j-dept-mgr-bullocks-4339-victoria-av

Reference: p. 1564; LAPL ResCarta image 1576 of 2538

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