Los Angeles City Directory 1930 — 'Murphy Jas J (Agnes) buyer J W Robinson Co h4339 Victoria av'

Los Angeles City Directory 1930 · Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California · 1930

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Summary

- p. 1665: **Murphy Jas J (Agnes), buyer J W Robinson Co, h4339 Victoria av.** - p. 1664: **Murphy Agnes, r4339 Victoria av** (probably the daughter Agnes T., a telephone clerk in the April 1930 census) and **Murphy Eileen, r4339 Victoria av.** The 1930 census (15 April) gives him as a buyer for a department store, owning the house; the Los Angeles Times of 18 June 1930 calls him "manager of the boys' department in J. W. Robinson & Co. department store".

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Directory entries

Murphy Jas J — buyer J W Robinson Co, r h4339 Victoria av
= James Joseph "James J." Murphy (b. 1883 Ardgroom; d. 1938 LA) · 100
(Agnes), r h4339 Victoria av
= Agnes Kelly Murphy · 100
Murphy Eileen, r r4339 Victoria av
= Eileen /Murphy/ · 95
Murphy Agnes, r r4339 Victoria av
= Agnes Terese Murphy (m. Llewellyn 1940) · 75

People — link detail

James Joseph "James J." Murphy (b. 1883 Ardgroom; d. 1938 LA)(as printed: Murphy Jas J)
role: directory entry · family confidence: 100 certain
occupation: buyer J W Robinson Co · residence: h4339 Victoria av
Same house and employer as 1929; matches the 1930 census and the LA Times of 18 Jun 1930.
Agnes Kelly Murphy(as printed: (Agnes))
role: spouse named in entry · family confidence: 100 certain
residence: h4339 Victoria av
Wife named in her husband's entry.
Eileen /Murphy/(as printed: Murphy Eileen)
role: directory entry · family confidence: 95 certain
residence: r4339 Victoria av
Daughter Eileen (18 in the 1930 census) at the family house.
Agnes Terese Murphy (m. Llewellyn 1940)(as printed: Murphy Agnes)
role: directory entry · family confidence: 75 strong
residence: r4339 Victoria av
A separate 'Agnes' line at the family house; the wife appears in her husband's entry, so this is probably the daughter Agnes T. (20, telephone clerk, 1930 census).

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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 1930 publisher: Los Angeles Directory Company year: 1930 pages: ['1665', '1664'] repository: Los Angeles Public Library, ResCarta-Web read_from: LAPL 600-dpi page images, 28 Sept 2026 (see provenance.yaml) --- # Los Angeles City Directory 1930 — 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. 1665 — LAPL image 1659 https://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-Web/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=040428be-8b21-4de1-9b1e-3421068c0f1c%2Fcl000000%2F20150604%2F00000003&pg_seq=1659 ``` " Jas H (Florence) cook h733 Whittier => " Jas J (Agnes) buyer J W Robinson Co h4339 Victoria av " Jas J servicemn Hwood Water Heater Co h3902½ S Brighton av ``` ## p. 1664 — LAPL image 1658 https://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-Web/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=040428be-8b21-4de1-9b1e-3421068c0f1c%2Fcl000000%2F20150604%2F00000003&pg_seq=1658 ``` " Adele r1417 Waterloo => " Agnes r4339 Victoria av " Agnes clk h1023 N Coronado " Edwina M Mrs h3887 Arlington av => " Eileen r4339 Victoria av " Eleanor (wid Peter) h7211 Santa Monica blvd ``` ## 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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