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The popularity of the track declined rapidly, however, and the track was sold in 1897. When the track Buildings were razed is unknown, but the facility appears on insurance maps prepared by Sanborn in 1906. These same maps indicate that the only construction then ex(sting alwq BrtstiA Street, other than the race track, Was concentrated in the first few blocks south of First Street. None of these Buildings have survived to the present clay. Growth along Bristol Street between First Street and Warner Avenue was quite slow. In 1901, only four addresses were in use on South Brssta4. Thee ressdenc-�s be�e)nged to Mr. F. J. Garrett, F. R. Horstley, B. S. Kearns, and J. WHI[ts. The latter is the same lair. W[Ilits who owned the famous race horse, Silk wood. A street was named in honor of fir. Willits; it extends west from Bristol Street across from Bishop Street. Bone of these buildings have survived to the present day. In addition, the 1901 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Anaheim and Santa Ana sheets, reveal that Bristol Street was opened between First Street and Memory Lark by that date. Some 1 i structures were adjacent to Bristol Street at the time. Fine of these, two on the west and three on the cast side of Bristol are between First and Fifth Street-, It is that near Viflh Streit #sere is an approximate 100 foot offset in Bristol Street, with the portion north of Fifth Street being further to the east. 'three structures were located at widely spaced intervals on the west side of Bristol Street between Ninth Street and Washington Street, Seventeenth Street terminated from the east at Bristol Street. One structure was located just north of $eventeenth Qn the- east side of V�risb�k. The twin remaining structures were located east of Bristol and just south of Santinge Creek. None of these structures have survived to the present day. By 1937, some 26 residences existed along Bristol Street in the project area. All of the residences listed in Mr. Bissell's report as potentially significant were to dace by 3537. A, 19:7 directory indicates that F. A. Walker, owner/ constructor of the Walker Residence discussed in Section 11 B, was at that time operating a feed mill, known. as Banner Mills, at 605 South Bristol Street. The mill continued to operate until at least 1947. The 1942 maps of the project area indicate that the -8rea along Bristol, between First and Seventeenth, was entirely built -up by that date, except for a small parcel immediately southwest of the Bristol Street/ Seventeenth Street intersection. This is the parcel which eventually became Santa Aka Community College, Six buildings were located along Bristol north of Seventeenth Street. None of the buildings north of Seventeenth Street depicto -d are the 1942 maps have survived to the present day, but rnany from this era exist [n the southerly portion of the APE1. -11-