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Mackel Family Legacy for Southern California Real Estate

My uncle Larry has been the unofficial Mackel family historian. When my grandfather died in 1992, Larry was very good at bringing out many artifacts from my grandfather’s youth.   One of the more interesting items was his savings account passbook from Security Pacific National Bank and it was fun in looking at the kind of deposits and withdrawals my grandfather would make as a young man around the time of the first world war and in the 1920s. Along with the treasure trove items was this newspaper clipping taken from the LA Times in 1932.

My great-grandfather James Mackel immigrated from Ireland to Los Angeles in 1882.  The family story claims that his move from public service into real estate was prompted by an accident while working a fire. As the story goes, he caught a survivor jumping off the second floor and broke both his arms. When my great-grandmother answered the door upon his arrival, she fainted and he could not catch her. James Mackel’s youngest son, John (my grandfather), bucked the tradition and attended the University of Michigan where he obtained a degree in structural engineering. While running a successful engineering and architectural firm in Los Angeles, he did purchase real estate investments with my grandmother Maguerite, however, it was not until my father graduated from USC with a degree in business emphasizing in Real Estate, did we have a broker back in the family.

Being a 3rd generation native son of Los Angeles and southern Californian is something I am very proud of and the wonderful history my family has had in southern California makes me even prouder to call southern California my home.

Posted in: Real Estate News Tagged: 1932, LA Times, Los Angeles, mackel, real estate, southern california

About Ted Mackel

Active real estate broker and entrepreneur in Simi Valley. Ted has a passion for business, has deep knowledge about residential and commercial real estate and is one of the few to be a long time blogger/writer on these subjects. In his free time you'll find Ted enjoying baseball with his family (Go Dodgers), reaching his goal of spanish fluency, and pursuing his hobbies with RC aircraft and Lionel Trains.

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  1. Irina Netchaev says

    May 19, 2010 at 8:09 pm

    What a great story Ted! Totally enjoyed it. 🙂

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  2. Ted Mackel says

    May 26, 2010 at 5:04 pm

    Irina,

    Thanks for stopping by. My brother is really into that Ancestry.com thing. Pretty interesting.

    Reply
  3. Brendan Aiello says

    July 4, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    Hey Ted,

    Very cool to see you referring to your family history on your blog. We have similar stories. I’m a 3rd generation Californian (SF Bay area) from defendants of Ireland. As many Irish, my family started out with a construction background and has done well in real estate investing. Are you coming to the bay for Inman next week? Maybe we should have a pint in honor of the family? 🙂

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  4. Ted Mackel says

    July 5, 2010 at 9:49 am

    Brendan, I am trying to add it into my schedule. I have a couple of escrow s that are opening this week. Someone stole the pool filter out of my client’s home (short Sale) so if I can put out all the fires I’ll drive up Sunday and go home Monday after REBarcamp.

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