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The Armenian Directory: 1932.
Within the collections of the Los Angeles Public Library there are city, business and phone directories going back to 1873. Among the historic books can be found The Armenian Directory of The State of California, 1932, related to the Armenian community of Los Angeles, at that time, numbering a few thousands, many of whom were…
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“Once on a High and Windy Hill….”
Over the weekend, I was invited to a wake held in a family home somewhere up high in the hills of Sherman Oaks. The house was set at the end of an ascending private driveway. But it was not an exclusive house, the intimidating kind we imagine these days. I saw no cameras or threatening…
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Not Van Nuys Blvd at Oxnard
On Architizer, an architectural website, I found a photo and description of a residential/commercial development built in Mountain Brook, AL in 2014. Pleasant, as all ideal architectural plans and photos are. But it also fired up an idea… Why couldn’t buildings like this go on the NW corner of Van Nuys Bl. and Oxnard St.?…
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New Housing at Old Bank.
Last week, the LA Planning Commission approved 179 townhomes and 8 low-income apartments built partially out of the old North Hollywood Savings and Loan (later Chase) Bank at 4445 Lankershim Bl. at Riverside Dr. according a recent story in the Daily News. The 1961 building will be readapted for residential use, and include over 5,000 SF…
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1956: Crazy Times
These are a selection of violent news stories from just a few months in 1956, mostly related to people in Van Nuys, but also in Canoga Park and Burbank. It is common to look back at the 1950s, especially in Los Angeles, as a less violent and less chaotic era. Old-time residents of the San…
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Densmore and Stagg, N. of Saticoy.
Drive west on Saticoy St., past the 405 and turn right/north, onto Densmore Avenue. You are still, according to Google Maps, in Van Nuys. (all apologies to Lake Balboa, which seems to have some fourteen boundariesaround its neighborhood.) On Densmore, near Stagg, you’ll find, as I did, a neat, monotonous, hard-working district of small companies; mostly…
“Photo Essay”, American Rubber and Supply Co., Black Sheep Enterprises, business, Creative Age Publications, Densmore Ave., Essay, Hell Yeah Tacos, Industrial, Katsu-Ya, Kedem Properties, Magill Los Angeles, Men’s fashion, New Rule Productions, Regency Fire Protection, San Fernando Valley, Saticoy, Small Business, Stagg St., Style, Superior Shipping Supplies, Van Nuys and the Valley
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