About, but not limited to, Van Nuys, CA.
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.
Photos: USC DIGITAL ARCHIVES
Looking back at these March 15, 1952 photos of a rainstorm in Sherman Oaks & Studio City (Vantage/Ventura) you see the humble, commercial, helter-skelter development of commerce along Ventura Boulevard.
57 years ago, most businesses still had awnings on the windows to keep out the summer sun. Air-conditioning was not widespread.
The gas stations were not the modern covered ones we have today, but were a combination of adobe/Spanish styles from the 1920s and slicker ones from the 1930s.
People ate a lot of ice cream at soda fountains.
And what happened to all those elegant lampposts, the same ones that still grace Wilshire Boulevard?
Here in Van Nuys 
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