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Los Angeles Housing Department

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Los Angeles Housing Department

6640 Van Nuys Blvd. Van Nuys, CA 91405

Woodman and Riverside, Sherman Oaks, CA, 1932

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Here are two astonishing photos, startling to our eyes, showing how open the San Fernando Valley was 82 years ago.

Today this area is completely urbanized, home to Notre Dame High School and Fashion Square.

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Autumn.

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Mason St.

20400 Kittridge St.

Autumn scenes near Pierce College in Winnetka along Mason and Kittridge Streets.

In the Blistering Sun, Waiting for the Bus Next to the Gas Pumps

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An elderly woman, waiting for a Metro Bus, is forced to seek shelter from the blistering sun next to the gas pumps at Vanowen and Sepulveda, breathing in fumes as she tries to avoid heat exhaustion.

New Photos Added to Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society

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The great website Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society has added some historic Los Angeles streetcar photos to its eminent collection courtesy of Robert Chamberlin Photo and Richard Wilkens Collection.

ABOVE: Their latest comes from Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 452 on the N Line service.

BELOW: Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 485 is captured on B Line service in this neighborhood location. It’s November of 1948.

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15016 Kittridge St.

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Close to the sidewalk, shaded under trees, an odd duck is on the market.

At 15016 Kittridge, a property for sale by owner, a mansard shingled roof hangs across the front of the house, a remodeling relic dating back to the late 1960s and early 70s. The 1,395 s.f. house was built in 1951 and has 3 beds and 2.5 baths.

Architectural theatricality, common in West Hollywood, is rarer in Van Nuys.