There's a Cudahy Street in Huntington Park. Local historian Wally Shidler says it's named for Irishman Michael Cudahy.

"Michael Cudahy was the meatpacking impresario. Cudahy Packing Company; it was around here. It doesn't exist anymore."

Cudahy and his brother Patrick established the Armour-Cudahy meat packing plant in Nebraska. But Michael sold his share of the company in 1908 and invested in Southern California's booming real estate market. His one-acre lots were incorporated in 1960 as the city of Cudahy. Today, the 24,000 people who live in Cudahy are packed like sausages into one square mile, making the tiny town one of the most densely populated cities in the U.S.

(Airdate for this story: 11/18/07)