Photo courtesy of: San Fernando Valley Issues Digital Library
Publisher: California State University, Northridge. University Library.
In 1955, civic leaders and the Reseda Chamber of Commerce embarked on what seemed at the time quite progressive: an enormous road widening. Yet 50 years later Reseda Boulevard is still a shabby, ugly, broken down street. The good thing is that cheap restaurants, bicycle stores, taco stands, vacuum repair outlets and pawn shops are also useful to earning a living.
Reseda once was the gateway for middle class families to buy a starter home and eventually move upwards and onwards. Now the starter home is half a million dollars. But Reseda Bouleveard looks like the main drag of a depressed area. Where are the leaders, the homeowners, the architects, the dreamers, the Mayor and the City Council who could turn this underutilized and wretched boulevard into a beautiful and aesthetic urban experience?
What will Reseda Boulevard look like in 2055?
Here in Van Nuys 
Sherman way in Reseda is depressing too. I remember in the 60’s shopping at J.C. Pennys, seeing movies at the Reseda theater (and Drive in too) and shopping at the Food Giant. It seems now all it’s good for is thrift stores and science school.
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