Neighbors to your West - the Grogan Tract and Albert Brigden

James Craig was Grogan's agent and had a large tract of his own south of the Allen Sphinx Ranch and north of the Wilson and De Shorb vineyards and land holdsings.  Craig represented Grogan in attempting to subdivide and sell both of their ranch holdings in chunks.  Grogan lived and maintained his office in San Francisco and Craig was his partner, living and selling from his ranch in what was the far outskirts of Pasadena to the east.

The Cranks and Brigdens both purchased part of Craig's tract and lived below the Allens and New York avenue, having purchased and built their homes in the decade preceding the Allens' arrival and they remain some of the oldest homes in the greater Pasadena and Altadena areas.

Craig and Grogan would sell the land that became a part of the Altadena Country Club Golf Course in 1911 and a small air strip which would DW Griffith would build - a place where bi-planes would touch down and alight in the southeast corner of the property in the early 1920's for the likes of Gloria Swanson and Charlie Chaplin.