[...] among visitors and locals, the tranquil enclave of Los Feliz, just 8 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, tends to live up to its cheerful moniker. For several generations, ownership passed to his descendants, and parts of it were parceled out to form small communities, until 1863, when a lawyer named Antonio Coronel acquired it and sold what remained of the rancho to a wealthy San Francisco land baron named James Lick. In 1882, Col.