Joyce Beers Her name appears on our community center in the Uptown District, but who was Joyce Beers? She was an active and community-minded woman

One of her favorite sayings: “A 50¢ tree should be planted in a $5 hole.” Katherine Olivia Sessions (1857-1940) was known to many as “Kate.”

Amid a scattering of homes and handful of businesses to the east, our community started being called “Hillcrest” in 1907 thanks to a 40-year-old entrepreneur.

The 1920 census shows Hillcrest resident and doctor Gwladys Morgan, 39, living at 3768 Eighth Street (now called avenue) with her older sister Mabel Elliott,

Hazel Wood Waterman (1865-1948) may never have received a license to hang on the wall, but she gets credit for several neighborhood landmarks including the

Park West’s Leo Wilson is a third generation Uptown resident — his family moved to Hillcrest 90 years ago. A 1946 article in the Pacific