Almost 80 years ago, banker and politician Frank Flint named streets after two of the most important women in his life: his mistress and his daughter. You can read the tragic story of his mistress Beulah in an earlier Street Story. This is the story of his daughter Katherine.

Frank Flint had been a successful banker. He'd served in the U.S. Senate, and he'd developed the new community he named after himself: Flintridge. In the 1920s, Flint tried his luck at the hotel business. Filmmaker John Newcombe says Flint built his masterpiece on top of a hill in Flintridge, and named the street after Katherine, his daughter. But the hotel was so far away and the rooms were so expensive, nobody came. And then Flint and his brother Motley became ensnared in a financial scandal. Motley fled the country.

Newcombe says, "Frank Flint had a massive nervous breakdown, and his doctor put him on an ocean cruise, which in those days was considered to be the cure, the magic cure for shattered nerves. He went off in the Pacific with his wife and had a massive heart attack and died."

Newcombe, whose documentary is called "Rancho La Canada: Then and Now," says the hotel was sold to the Biltmores, who also couldn't make it work. Eight months after Flint died, the stock market crashed. The Catholic Church bought the hotel for $150,000. Today, Sacred Heart Academy for Girls sits on the site on St. Katherine's Drive.

(Airdate: 2/24/08)