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Barhite is about three-fourths of the way to the top of
Sierra Madre Villa, between Fairpoint and Vosburg streets.
Wondering where the name came from? So did Chuck McReynolds, who received
the following e-mail message in January 2003:
If you are interested in how your street was named, please email me.
Dick Barhite - Modesto California
So I wrote to him and said that Gene Burt thought it had been named
after an LA County roads guy as a reward for years of service.
Dick wrote back:
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: Barhite Street - Reply
Chuck:
Close! The fact is my father Harold S. Barhite, with the LA County Road
Department, found the unnamed street (he was the Assistant District Engineer
for the department's office in Altadena) . He advised the County Engineering
department, which was responsible for naming streets. It was not really
named after my father, but rather for him, because he found it.
A little more background, Dad came to Pasadena after WW I to go to school at
Caltech, from which he graduated in 1921. His parents came to California
from Michigan shortly thereafter and built two little homes at what was then
1372-76 E. Orange Grove Ave. It is now a large (blue) apartment house on the
south side of the street.
I was born and raised in Pasadena, went to UC Berkeley and too became a
civil engineer ending up as the County Engeer, etc. for Stanislaus County in
Modesto. I have an interest in roads and because I will be visiting a friend
on Riviera Drive across the gulch from you, I found Barhite Street listed on
my MapBlast map. I knew it existed and had visited it years ago.
Happy to pass on a bit of history.
Dick Barhite
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