San Fernando Valley
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Louie’s Liquor
Louie’s Liquor, originally uploaded by Here in Van Nuys. Sometimes it seems, driving at dusk, on Reseda and Saticoy Boulevards, there is a liquor store at every corner. When the heat has broken, people come out of their cramped homes and walk the street in waning daylight. They are the faces of the world: Latinos,…
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USC Digital Archives
USC Digital Archives”Photograph of a huge pepper tree, Lankershim Boulevard and Victory Boulevard, Van Nuys, July 1928. A man in a suit stands at right looking up at the short, wide tree. The tree reaches over the dusty, weed-spotted yard at center where a pile of wood sits at left and a covered automobile sits parked at right. Several…
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“It Was So Much Better Back Then…”
There is a virtual place online where middle-aged mourners can gather to express their memories of a locale where towheaded youngsters, Brycreamed dads, and aproned moms drove in $4,000 Caddies along spotless streets and empty freeways and sent their kids to brand-new schools and inexpensive colleges, swam in sunny swimming pools, consumed burgers in drive-thrus,…
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Miracle on Elmer Street.
A street in Sun Valley, where flooding once occurred, and polluted rain water carried toxic waste, garbage and chemicals down to the Ocean, has been rebuilt to incorporate green landscaping, flood control, and solar power lighting. Courtesy of Tree People, the Metropolitan Water District and the LA County Department of Public Works.
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Woodley Avenue Near Roscoe.
West of the 405, the vista opens up. The skies are big and the mountains vast. This is the land of beer and jets, trucks and steel; gasoline, fire and the burning sun. This is the Van Nuys Airport, the Flyaway, the Anheuser-Busch Plant, many warehouses, and an enormous sod farm. Here men and women…
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Up on White Oak Place
san fernando valley, originally uploaded by dugm2. Up on White Oak Place last night: a party for a magazine launch. The winds were blowing. Buzzing flocks of valet parkers ran to grab cars as partygoers arrived. A for-sale mansion had been rented, an ornate and preposterously rococo place, elaborate and overdone; sunk under the weight…
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