There's an intersection in Woodland Hills where De La Osa Street meets San Miguel Street.

San Miguel Curves around Woodland Hills' first elementary school. Artist J. Michael Walker says the street is named for Saint Michael the archangel.

"He's someone you've probably seen in Renaissance paintings. He's the angel wearing armor who's standing in the middle of last judgment paintings holding these scales so he can weigh souls of the dead, to decide whether they're going someplace nice or someplace not so nice."

In an earlier Street Story, we told you about Vicente de la Ossa, an L.A. City Councilman in the 1830s who conned a pair of illiterate women out of the 4,400 Rancho Los Encinos for $120. At the intersection of De La Osa Street and San Miguel, where the con artist and the archangel meet, Walker says the street signs stretch out like an angel's wings.

"It's interesting to kind of contemplate what's going to happen as St. Michael is weighing his soul to decide where he's going to go."

J. Michael Walker's new book is called "All the Saints of the City of the Angels: Seeking the Soul of L.A. on its Streets."

(Airdate: 3/9/2008)