Legacy
Bonsall's family home on West Adams Boulevard, by then in decrepit condition, was rescued from demolition in 1980 when Doug Carlton, a "36-year-old commercial artist with a penchant for tangling with bureaucracy and a love for the weatherbeaten past" successfully bid $146,000 to buy it and preserve it. At least one developer wanted to raze the building, which by 1980 had been divided into cheap apartments, and construct low-cost, government-subsidized public housing. The deal, however, fell through, and the building remains a multiple-family structure.
Bonsallo Avenue was named for him. He lived less than a mile from the street's northern segment (near the corner of West Adams Blvd and Vermont Avenue).
Another street, Bonsall Avenue, on the campus of the West Los Angeles Medical Center, was also named in his honor.
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