Alfonso Bell is best known as the man who developed Bel Air. But he also had a hand in the creation of Pacific Palisades. Randy Young, who wrote the book "Street Names of Pacific Palisades", says a European vacation inspired Bell.

"When he purchased the land, he had just taken a trip to the Amalfi coast and he loved it. And he thought really this area was the Amalfi coast before it was developed. And so he demanded that all of his subdivision have basically Italian and French and Riviera names."

That means you, too, can tour the Riviera: Amalfi, Capri, Corsica, Monaco, Sorrento, and Naples – actually, Napoli – just by cruising the streets of Pacific Palisades.

(Airdate for this story: 12/1/07)