Wealthy Canadian immigrants Victor and future Mayor Prudent Beaudry developed in the area where The Forgotten Edge is today in the 1880’s.

This tract of land included a small hill at Sunset & Beaudry that they sold to the Daughters of Charity, who constructed a new hospital for St Vincent’s.

One of the first stops on the Red Line as city dwellers left Los Angeles was on Alpine Street. It was a central part of a thriving community in early Los Angeles.