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1963: LAPD Warns Hitchhikers of Predatory Homosexuals.
“Photograph article dated July 18, 1963 partially reads, “Valley police have been issuing citations in recent months to teen-agers who hitchhike up and down Van Nuys Blvd. The department is worried because several Valley youths have been the victims of homosexuals who pick them up and refuse to let them out of the car.…
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Option A is Off
The Metro Planning Board will not recommend the demolition of 33 acres of light industry near Kester and Oxnard that would have obliterated 58 buildings, 186 businesses and endangered 1,000 jobs within walking distance of downtown Van Nuys. “Option A” was a proposed light rail service yard that would have serviced a 9.2 mile public…
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Post WWII North Hollywood
The development of North Hollywood started in the early 1900s and was one of the earliest coherent towns in the San Fernando Valley. Its commercial district, along Lankershim Blvd. was lively, prosperous, and safe. After WWII, there was a brief flowering of progressive design along the commercial strip which sought to upgrade buildings and attract…
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Bourdain.
It has been a tearfully confounding few days for those who imagined a life of elation for that man privileged to travel and eat anywhere in the world, to dine in places high and low, to taste cuisines in remote outposts, and consume foods prepared by experts in professional kitchens, or cooked on stoves…
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One Day, Soon.
One day, soon, there will be a revitalization of Van Nuys Boulevard. Gone forever will be the hopeless days when people laughed to mock it, or ran away in revulsion. All the central gathering places that should be occupied by civilized things, all the lots that hold parking, all the empty buildings along Van…
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The Janitors’ Light Rail.
“If you’re a housekeeper, janitor or dish washer, you need to get to work every day on time,” she said. “Buses don’t move as many people and as quickly as the light rail. That’s why we’re excited about the project that would serve people who are transit dependent.”[1] “As a mom, I can tell…
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