Bonsallo Avenue is a street in South Los Angeles

South Los Angeles

South Los Angeles, often abbreviated as South L.A. and formerly South Central Los Angeles, is the official name for a large geographic and cultural portion lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central, and is still widely known...

 that consists of two segments about four miles apart. The northern segment, located in historic West Adams, Los Angeles near downtown

Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area...

, is home to six Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments

Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument

Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments are sites in Los Angeles, California, which have been designated by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission as worthy of preservation based on architectural, historic and cultural criteria.-History:...

. The southern segment, near Slauson Avenue

Slauson Avenue

Slauson Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare for southern Los Angeles County, California, named for the land developer and Los Angeles Board of Education member J. S. Slauson. It passes through Culver City, Ladera Heights, View Park-Windsor Hills, Baldwin Hills, Inglewood, South Los Angeles,...

, is between Los Angeles' Mt Carmel and Hoover-Gage parks.

William H. Bonsall

The street is named for William Hartshorn Bonsall

William Hartshorn Bonsall

William Hartshorn Bonsall was acting mayor of Los Angeles from December 5, 1892 – December 12, 1892 and served on the city council representing the 3rd ward from 1891 to 1895. From 1893 to 1895 he was President of the City Council...

. At the time Bonsallo Avenue was developed in the early 1890s

1890s

The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the "Mauve Decade" - because William Henry Perkin's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion - and also as the "Gay Nineties", under the then-current usage of the word "gay" which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...

, Bonsall was a member of the Los Angeles City Council (President of the Council from 1893 to 1895). It is unclear if Bonsall lived on the street; more likely the street was named in his honor.