#1 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Chatsworth (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~0.78 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Chatsworth was originally inhabited by the Fernandeno and Chumash tribes. The first European explorers came into the Chatsworth area on August 5, 1769, led by Gaspar de Portola. After the San Fernando Mission was established in 1797, Spain granted the land of the San Fernando Valley, including Chatsworth, to the new mission.
An Indian trail ran from Chatsworth to the San Fernando Mission, and was part of the El Camino del Santa Susana y Simi trail that connected the San Fernando Mission to the San Buenaventura Mission. The trail crossed into the valley over the Santa Susana Pass near Chatsworth Park.
In 1821, after the Mexican people revolted against Spain and claimed independence, the San Fernando Mission became part of Mexico. In 1834, the Mexican government ordered the sale of all mission lands, and as a result, Chatsworth was divided - the Eastern part became Rancho San Fernando and the Western part became part of the Simi land grant. The border line extended down the center of what is now Andora Avenue.
The town was named after Chatsworth House, in Derbyshire, the country estate of England's Duke of Devonshire. ("Devonshire" is also the name of a major street in Chatsworth.)
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Winnetka (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~3.25 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Winnetka is a district in the San Fernando Valley in the City of Los Angeles. It is in the west-central San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, California.
Winnetka is served by the Orange Line bus service.
Winnetka is located next to Canoga Park on the west, Woodland Hills on the south, Chatsworth to the north, and Reseda to the east. Corbin Avenue is the eastern boundary, DeSoto Avenue is the western boundary, Victory Boulevard is the southern boundary, and Nordhoff Street is the northern boundary. It is bordered by the Southern Pacific Coast Line railroad to the north and the Los Angeles River to the south. Major thoroughfares include Winnetka Avenue, Mason Avenue, Roscoe Boulevard, Sherman Way, Saticoy Street, Parthenia Street and Vanowen Street. The postal ZIP code is 91306, the telephone area code (818). A GPS location is: 34.2092 N, 118.57492 W.
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Canoga Park (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~3.50 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Canoga Park (formerly known as Owensmouth) is a section of the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of Downtown Los Angeles.
It is bordered by Woodland Hills on the south, West Hills on the west, Chatsworth on the north, and Winnetka on the east.
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Porter Ranch (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~3.87 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Porter Ranch is an upscale neighborhood in the northwest part of the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. It is bounded by Chatsworth on the south and west, Northridge on the south, and Granada Hills on the north and east. The Santa Susana Mountains, which separate the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys, lie to the north. The principal thoroughfares are Porter Ranch Drive, Tampa Ave. and Reseda Blvd., running north-south, and Sesnon Blvd., Corbin Ave., Rinaldi St. and the Ronald Reagan Freeway (State Route 118), running east and west. The Porter Ranch ZIP code is 91326.
In the late 19th century, Benjamin Porter purchased a part of the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando land grant in the foothills of the Santa Susanas above Northridge. Primarily wheat fields for its first several decades, the relatively isolated area later became the site of numerous movie stars' horse ranches. As with the rest of the San Fernando Valley, suburban development eventually came to Porter Ranch. However, the area was the last portion of the San Fernando Valley within the Los Angeles city limits to be developed, with major construction not occurring until the 1970s. Large portions of the 1982 blockbuster film E.T. the Extra-terrestrial were filmed in Porter Ranch. The Steven Spielberg classic includes several shots looking down on the Porter Ranch neighborhood beneath the ridge in Palisades Park. Brasilia Dr., Killimore Ave. and Granada Circle appear most often in E.T. Porter Ridge Park, at the north end of Reseda Blvd., was used for the park scene at the end of the movie.
In the late 60's and early 70's there were 2 horse and rider statues which marked the unofficial entrance to Porter Ranch. One was located on the North West corner of Tampa and Devonshire. The other was a North East corner on Devonshire and Tunney. They were eventually removed to allow more residential development. There were reports of one of the statues being found is a trash dumpster many years later.
Today, the district is largely composed of gated communities of upscale single-family homes. Most residents commute by automobile to business hubs of Simi Valley, Downtown Los Angeles and the commercial hub of Woodland Hills, at the San Fernando Valley's southwest corner. The community is also close to the Chatsworth and Northridge stations served by the Metrolink commuter rail system that links the San Fernando Valley with Downtown Los Angeles and Ventura County.
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Northridge (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~4.10 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Northridge is a community in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States.
The 1994 Northridge Earthquake is named for the community based on early estimates of the location of the quake's epicenter; however further refinements showed it to be technically in neighboring Reseda. The area was also heavily damaged in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake.
In 1994, the Northridge Little League Baseball team won the United States Little League Championship game, but lost the World Series game to the international team from Coquivacoa-Maracaibo, Venezuela.
The U.S. Metric Association is based in Northridge.
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
California State University Northridge
18111 Nordhoff St Los Angeles CA - 818-677-1200
~4.24 miles from Chatsworth city center
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California State University, Northridge is a vibrant university community of nearly 36,000 students and more than 4,000 faculty and staff, sited on a 356-acre campus in the heart of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.
California State University, Northridge (also known as CSUN, Cal State Northridge) is a public university in the San Fernando Valley, within the city limits of Los Angeles, California, USA. Part of the California State University system, CSUN was founded in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College and adopted its current name in 1972. It has become second largest university in California State System and 4th largest in the State of California.
CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields, master's degrees in 42 fields, and a doctoral degree in educational leadership. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an intensive 6-week training of the fine arts.
Cal State Northridge is home to the National Center on Deafness, and each year the university hosts the International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities.
http://www.csun.edu
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
West Hills (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~4.53 miles from Chatsworth city center
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West Hills is a district in the western San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles in California, United States.
West Hills is bordered by the Chatsworth and Chatsworth Reservoir to the north, Canoga Park to the east, Woodland Hills to the south, Hidden Hills to the southwest, and the Simi Hills with the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve and Bell Canyon to the west. The community's postal codes are 91307 and 91304.
In 1987, the City of Los Angeles recognized the following description of the boundaries of West Hills: "Starting at the centerline intersections of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Nordhoff Street, westward down the centerline of Nordhoff extended in a straight line to the city limits of the City of Los Angeles; thence southward, following the border of the City of Los Angeles to the centerline of Victory Boulevard; thence eastward down the centerline of Victory Boulevard to Shoup Avenue centerline; thence northward down the centerline of Shoup Avenue to the intersection of the centerline of Roscoe Boulevard; thence eastward down the centerline of Roscoe Boulevard to the centerline of Topanga Canyon Boulevard; then northward downthe centerline of Topanga Canyon Boulevard to the centerline of Nordhoff Street."
Bell and Dayton Creeks in West Hills are several of the headwaters of the Los Angeles River that originate in the Northwest San Fernando Valley. The Los Angeles River itself begins at the confluence of Arroyo Calabasas (Calabasas Creek) and Bell Creek in Canoga Park. These and other small creeks supply stormwater and suburban runoff water to the Los Angeles River, and several are considered year round creeks. Although the creeks are now channeled and run within concrete walls, they do form a significant urban wildlife landscape and contribute to the population of indigenous wildlife left within the San Fernando Valley. Both Bell Creek and Dayton Creek in particular have received attention due to their original inside the Santa Susana Field Laboratory-SSFL. The SSFL is mandated for an environmental cleanup due to its uses as a testing center for rocket and missile fuel, nuclear power research, and high technology defense systems. It was also the site of a partial nuclear core meltdown in 1959. Prominent contaminants include VOCs, Chromium, Lead, Benzene, and other components of rocket engine fuel and cleaning.
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Reseda (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~4.62 miles from Chatsworth city center
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Bottle Village
Los Angeles CA
~6.13 miles from Chatsworth city center
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This assemblage is one of California's Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments. In 1956, Tressa Prisbrey, then nearly 60 years old, started building a "village" of shrines, walkways, sculptures, and buildings from recycled items and discards from the local landfill. She worked for 25 years creating one structure after another to house her collections. Bottle Village is California Historical Landmark number 939. Is ia also a Ventura County Cultural Landmark, and has historic designation from the City of Simi Valley. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The village is located at 4595 Cochran Street, Simi Valley and viewable from the sidewalk. It was officially closed in 1984 and severely damaged during the 1994 Northridge Earthquake.
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Granada Hills (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~6.61 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Granada Hills is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California.
It is located just north of the North Hills and Northridge districts, west of the Mission Hills and Sylmar districts, and just east of the Porter Ranch district. It is accessible by the Ronald Reagan (SR 118), San Diego (Interstate 405), and Golden State (Interstate 5) Freeways. Major thoroughfares include Balboa Boulevard, Woodley, Hayvenhurst, and Haskell Avenues, as well as Rinaldi Street, San Fernando Mission Boulevard, Chatsworth Street, and Devonshire Street.
In 1916, the San Fernando Valley's first oil well was drilled in what is now Granada Hills. The oil well was located at the northern tip of Zelzah Avenue. Granada Hills was founded in 1927 (as "Granada;" the "Hills" was added 15 years later) and started out as a dairy farm and orchard known as the Sunshine Ranch. Among the crops harvested here as the nation prepared for the Roaring '20s were apricots, oranges, walnuts and beans. Vestiges of former citrus groves can still be seen as small groups of orange, lemon or grapefruit trees in some residential yards.
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Woodland Hills (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~6.76 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Woodland Hills is a district in the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. It was originally named Girard.
Woodland Hills is located in the southwestern area of the San Fernando Valley, northeast of Calabasas and west of Tarzana. To the north Woodland Hills is bordered by West Hills, Canoga Park, and Winnetka. Some neighborhoods are in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Running east-west through the community is U.S. Route 101 (Ventura Freeway) and Ventura Boulevard, which starts in Woodland Hills and intersects Valley Circle Boulevard.
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
North Hills (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~6.90 miles from Chatsworth city center
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North Hills is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California.
North Hills is one of the oldest communities in the San Fernando Valley. Formerly known as Sepulveda, the community was renamed North Hills in 1992. Northridge is to the west, Panorama City is to the east, Van Nuys is to the south, and Granada Hills to the north. The 405 Freeway (San Diego Freeway) runs through North Hills. Major thoroughfares include Lassen, Plummer, and Nordhoff Streets, Hayvenhurst, Woodley, and Haskell Avenues, and Roscoe and Sepulveda Boulevards. North Hills is roughly bounded by Balboa Boulevard to the west, Lassen Street to the north, Sepulveda Boulevard on the east, and Roscoe Boulevard to the south.
The Sepulveda family for whom the district was originally named has roots back to the founding of Los Angeles. Sepulveda Boulevard begins at the north end of the San Fernando Valley and extends all the way south to Long Beach, running through most of the populated section of Los Angeles County.
The small area varies a great deal; some parts of North Hills still preserve a small town feeling and are characterized by considerable neighborhood activism to preserve quality of life.
The area code is 818 and zip code is 91343.
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Downtown Simi Valley (Neighborhood)
Simi Valley CA
~7.00 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Tarzana (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~7.50 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Tarzana (pronounced /t?r'zæn?/) is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States.
Tarzana, a district of Los Angeles, is surrounded by Reseda to the north, Woodland Hills to the west, Encino to the east, and the Santa Monica Mountains (also a part of Los Angeles) to the south. Major roads in Tarzana include Reseda Boulevard, Tampa Avenue, Wilbur Avenue, Burbank Boulevard, and Ventura Boulevard, the commercial backbone of the southern San Fernando Valley,
Most of Tarzana's inhabitants live in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains south of Ventura Boulevard. North of the Ventura Freeway, there is a uniquely designed area meant to emulate a more rural setting called Melody Acres. Tarzana contains two country clubs (with golf courses) in the Santa Monica Mountains: El Caballero Country Club and Braemar Country Club. At the remote southern end of Reseda Blvd., there are a number of gated communities, including Mulholland Park, Silverhawk Ridge, Monte Verde, and Braemar Estates.
North of the Boulevard, where a smaller portion of the population lives, there are fewer houses and more apartment buildings. Tarzana extends north to Victory Boulevard, encompassing a wide swath of medium-density housing.
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Lake Balboa (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~7.58 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Lake Balboa is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California.
It is bordered by the following Los Angeles communities: Encino to the south, Van Nuys to the east, Reseda to the west, and Northridge and North Hills to the north.
It is named for a 27-acre (110,000 m2) artificial lake that is actually in Anthony C. Beilenson Park. The lake was created out of farm land in the early 1990s at the bottom of real estate bust in the San Fernando Valley. It is now part of a recreational park adjacent to the Balboa Park Golf Course with abundant fish, birds, mature flowering trees and scenic open and covered picnic areas. Real estate values in the surrounding area of Lake Balboa have dramatically increased in past years and have made such properties more desirable to potential buyers. The lake is supplied with water from the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant, operated by the city's Bureau of Sanitation.
There was debate about the official recognition of Lake Balboa as a community by the City of Los Angeles. The reason for this stems from the fact that the community of Lake Balboa was created by Councilman Dennis Zine in 2002 before the existence of any formal community naming process. As a result, the community of Lake Balboa was created under the best practices known at the time. It was only later, in January 2006, that the City of Los Angeles adopted a formal community naming process (City of Los Angeles Council File Number 02-0196). This debate had important implications for the official existence of many other Los Angeles communities that were created prior to January 2006. These communities include Arleta, North Hills, Porter Ranch, Valley Glen, Valley Village, West Hills, Winnetka, and many others.
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Downtown Calabasas (Neighborhood)
Calabasas CA
~7.75 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center
Simi Valley CA
~7.89 miles from Chatsworth city center
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
San Fernando Valley
Los Angeles
~8.07 miles from Chatsworth city center
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The San Fernando Valley (colloquially known as the Valley, 818, Valle or SFV) is an urbanized valley located in Southern California, United States. More than half of the city of Los Angeles' land area lies within the San Fernando Valley. Other incorporated cities in the valley include Burbank, Glendale, San Fernando, Hidden Hills and Calabasas.
The region is served by the Los Angeles Daily News and San Fernando Valley Business Journal. The Los Angeles Times also operates the Burbank Leader, although offices are in neighboring Glendale.
Three of the region's television network affiliates are based in the valley: KNBC, now in Universal City; KCBS-TV (with sister station KCAL-TV), in Studio City; and KABC-TV in Glendale.
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Encino (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~8.89 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Encino (Spanish for evergreen or holm oak) is a hilly district of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. Specifically, it is located in the central portion of the southern San Fernando Valley and on the north slope of the Santa Monica Mountains. It derives its name from the Rancho Los Encinos (Ranch of the Evergreens), a parcel of land given to three Mission Indians by the Mexican government following its secularization of the California missions beginning in 1834. Rancho Encino was established in 1845.
The portion of the Los Angeles River that runs through the Encino area is one of only two unpaved areas necessitated by the high water table. The original aquifer that fed the City of Los Angeles is the one located below Encino.
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Downtown San Fernando (Neighborhood)
San Fernando CA
~9.28 miles from Chatsworth city center
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Van Nuys (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~9.54 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Van Nuys (pronounced /væn'na?z/) is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States.
Lot sales began at the new town of Van Nuys on February 22, 1911. The area is named after Isaac Van Nuys, who was of Dutch descent and participant in a ranching enterprise called the San Fernando Homestead Association, a group that purchased most of the southern San Fernando Valley (south of present-day Roscoe Blvd) in 1869 to grow grain and run sheep. Van Nuys split this huge acreage, with his senior partner, Issac Lankershim, getting the east area (present-day Lankershim Blvd. crossed his section). Van Nuys also built the first wood frame house in the San Fernando Valley in 1872.
But in an odd sense, it was never Isaac Van Nuys' town—land speculators simply borrowed the name of his holding, the Van Nuys Ranch. The City of Los Angeles, and William Mulholland were building the Owens River aqueduct, starting in 1905 and to be finished in 1913. The San Fernando Valley was where the water was headed—first—and speculators were out to buy the Van Nuys Ranch—and subdivide it into 3 cities, Van Nuys, Marian (now Reseda), and Owensmouth (now Canoga Park) and start land sales just as the aqueduct was finished. Issac Van Nuys took his money—left his name on the town—and returned to his Los Angeles elite—with an office building remaining downtown with his name.
The speculators, organized into the Los Angeles Suburban Home Association, including Harry Chandler and Harrison Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times, Moses Sherman, a streetcar line owner, and Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a real estate promoter with ties as far back as the "Land Run of l889" (the Great Oklahoma Land Rush), bought Van Nuys out, and prepared to sell the San Fernando Valley.
From the grand opening and barbecue, Washington's Birthday, 1911, Van Nuys was sold as "The Town That Started Right", plotted with set-asides for a high school and commitments to build important buildings "first", including the Bank of Van Nuys, changed but still standing on the southwest corner of Van Nuys Blvd and Sylvan Street, to give a sense that the vacant lots sold, with little more than stakes and ribbons flapping in the breeze, would bloom into a city. A major artery—double wide street—with a Pacific Electric "Red Car" line between the traffic—was built all the way from Hollywood, over Cahuenga Pass, through Lankershim (now North Hollywood) out Chandler Bl, turning right into Van Nuys on Van Nuys Bl, and then turning to the west on Sherman Way to extend to the other "new cities" on the Van Nuys Ranch, Marian (now Reseda) and Owensmouth (now Canoga Park). Big selling points in l9ll—H.J. Whitley's idea—built by partner and builder Moses Sherman,take the Pacific Electric interurban—and be downtown in an hour—or drive the paved road alongside--("no speed limit"--if your Model A could do 35 mph)--all season.
And the unlimited Owens River aqueduct water—oranges, orchards,sugar beets, speciality crops—all available when the young Van Nuys voted to join the greater City of Los Angeles in l9l5.
But the so-called "The Town That Started Right" was built on Tyrone Wash—two blocks east of Van Nuys Blvd—and would flood at the drop of a hat.
Two pioneers to be noted--Hobart Johnstone Whitley, promoter extraordinare, one of the "Boomers" who built towns in a day after the l889 "Oklahoma Land Rush", who drew the designs for some 150 towns with a stick in the dust, including the San Fernando Valley cities of Van Nuys, Reseda and Canoga Park, and founder of Hollywood, just over the hill. Whitley also had a huge home along his ceremonial boulevard, the "first house" you saw as you turned from Chandler Blvd unto Van Nuys Bl.
Second, William P.Whitsett, who bought a half-interest in the Van Nuys townsite, and remained as real estate salesman and town booster, and whose influence grew till he was Chairman of the Metropolitan Water District, where he helped oversee the second great aqueduct that boosted Los Angeles' position, the Colorado River Aqueduct to Los Angeles in the 1930s.
Written accounts in the l9l0's and l920's gave much of the credit to H.J. Whitley—but Whitsett's long residence in town has given him more "historical credit" for the San Fernando Valley's progress.
Van Nuys developed slowly—currently remaining is a fine collection of 1920's and 1930s churches and California-style bungalows, which now make up a "historic preservation overlay zone" (2004) generally east of the 1914 Van Nuys High School. By the end of World War II, when the GI's were demobilized, and many came West, Van Nuys and the San Fernando Valley lived through a tremendous boom.
Many call the San Fernando Valley (and Van Nuys) in this period "America's Suburb", as in the Kevin Roderick book. Dr. Seuss even opined on what made the typical Van Nuys resident in a bit of poetry parodying "The Organization Man" of the 1950s.
If you "cross" all your "T's" and "dot" all your "I's"--
You can get a job in "IT" (information technology)
And you can live in Van Nuys..."
In that same sense, the Van Nuys of the 1990s has suffered the criticism of another humorist, Sandra Tsing Loh, in her book, "A Year In Van Nuys".
Van Nuys is in the heart of the San Fernando Valley and home to about 100,000 people; the main thoroughfare, Van Nuys Boulevard, is noted for its car dealerships, its "Auto Row". It also functions similar to a "county seat" for the Valley, with its Government Center (Erwin Street Mall) containing a branch of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Van Nuys police station, the Van Nuys offices for Los Angeles City Hall, Van Nuys State Office Building and a branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.
The 1945 General Motors Van Nuys Assembly Plant, a major manufacturing facility for General Motors' Chevrolet division along with aerospace and defense plants in neighboring cities led to a prosperity which inspired many to call the San Fernando Valley "America's suburb" (as in Kevin Roderick's book). Neighboring Panorama City sprang up—a thousand tract homes and 1950's mall, all on the promise of GM's new factory. But General Motors left, aerospace declined, and when the GM plant was dismantled in 1998, all that remains is a "big box store mall" called The Plant.
Like many central San Fernando Valley neighborhoods, Van Nuys was a middle-class neighborhood as late as the 1970s, but the demographics of some neighborhoods in Van Nuys have changed considerably since then.
In late 2004, the San Fernando Valley's first historic preservation overlay district was established in an area of early 20th-century bungalows east of Van Nuys High (founded 1914). According to the November 23, 2004, Los Angeles Times, "The neighborhood has become a melting pot of ethnic groups and home styles. Nearby stand such historic buildings as Van Nuys High School (1914), the Spanish colonial "old Van Nuys library (1927), the WPA-funded Van Nuys City Hall (a miniature 1/3 size copy of the downtown City Hall) and the 12th Church of Christ Scientist (1932)."
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Pacoima (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~9.74 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Pacoima ("rushing waters") is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California.
It is bordered by the Los Angeles districts of Mission Hills on the west, Arleta on the south, Sun Valley on the southeast, Lake View Terrace on the northeast, and by the city of San Fernando on the north. Major thoroughfares include San Fernando Road, Van Nuys Boulevard, and Laurel Canyon Boulevard. The Golden State and Ronald Reagan freeways run through the district.
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Sylmar (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~9.88 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Sylmar is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. Sylmar is located east of Interstate 5 and north of the city of San Fernando. Sylmar was once the site of the world's second largest olive groves—hence its name, which means "Sea of Trees".
Some 1500 years before the Spaniards settled, the Sylmar area was inhabited by the Tongva Indians. In 1797, the Spaniards founded Mission San Fernando Rey de España in what is now the nearby community of Mission Hills. Father Iballa, Padre at the Mission from 1820 to 1834, was indirectly responsible for Sylmar’s olives. He recognized the similarity of the climate and soil to those found in Europe where olives had been cultivated for centuries. He sent to Spain for seedlings, and planted them around the mission. San Fernando became a city in 1874, leading to the naming of the unincorporated land surrounding San Fernando to Morningside. The area was renamed Sylmar after incorporation into the City of Los Angeles during the building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which passes through the north-west corner. Local stories state that the designer of the old aqueduct, William Mulholland, stood on the foothills near the site of the planned aqueduct and noted that the wind caused the green and silver leaves of the olive farms to look like waves crashing against the mountains.
By 1890, a group of Illinois businessmen bought 2,000 acres (8 km2) east of the railroad tracks on San Fernando Road just south of Roxford Street and planted olives on over 1,100 acres (4.5 km2). Calling themselves the Los Angeles Olive Growers Association, they built a packing plant and sold olives under the Tyler Olives label, later changing to the Sylmar Packing label. Sylmar’s olives became famous throughout the state for sweetness and purity. Chinese pickers were hired to harvest the crops and produced up to 800 US gallons (3,000 L) of olive oil a day. The pickling plant was located on the corner of Roxford and San Fernando Road.
Along with its near-perfect climate for olives, Sylmar seemed ideal for the treatment of respiratory problems. The present Olive View-UCLA Medical Center has its origins in a tuberculosis sanitarium which opened near the current site in 1920 and was destroyed by fire in 1962. A new major medical center facility opened in January 1971 and was destroyed in the Sylmar earthquake the following month. The new Olive View Medical Center opened in 1987.
Around 2000, some local residents proposed a plan to rename the southwest portion of the district as Rancho Cascades.
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Melody Ranch
24715 Oakcreek Ave Newhall CA
~10.07 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Since 1915, when the studio was first opened for business, an endless string of hard riding shoot-em-ups have been produced at this location.
Melody Ranch (also known as Gene Autry's Melody Ranch) is a 1940 western film which tells the story of a singing cowboy who returns to his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the town. It stars Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller, Barton MacLane, Barbara Jo Allen, George 'Gabby' Hayes and William 'Billy' Benedict.
The movie was written by Ray Golden, F. Hugh Herbert, Sid Kuller and Jack Moffitt. It was directed by Joseph Santley. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
In 1950, Gene Autry brought his singing cowboy persona to television in a series which was alternately called The Gene Autry Show and Melody Ranch.
http://www.melodyranchstudio.com/
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Valencia Country Club
27330 Tourney Rd Valencia CA
~11.27 miles from Chatsworth city center
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This 18-hole golf course plays to a par of 72 and measures 7, 076 yards. Valencia Country Club has hosted such tournaments as the PGA TOUR's Nissan Open and the PGA TOUR's AT&T Champions Classic eight years in a row.
This is a private golf club.
27330 N Tourney Rd
Valencia, California 91355
Los Angeles County
Phone(s): (661) 287-1880, (661) 254-4401
Fax: (661) 287-9440
Website: www.valenciagolfclub.com
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Six Flags Magic Mountain
Valencia CA
~11.47 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Located 20 minutes north of Hollywood, Six Flags Magic Mountain has more than 100 thrilling rides, games and attractions, including 15 roller coasters. Some of the theme park's most popular roller coasters are - X2, Tatsu, Goliath and The Riddler's Revenge. The park is also known for having the most inversions for a single park with six different looping coasters.
Adjacent to the theme park is a separate admission water park, Six Flags Hurricane Harbor.
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Chatsworth
Strathearn Historical Park
Simi Valley CA
~11.48 miles from Chatsworth city center
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The Strathearn Valley Historical Park and Museum opened in 1969 and is located in the Strathearn home built in 1892-3. The 6.25 acre park encompasses a Chumash Indian Village, several barns, a library, general store and Colony House.
Hobbies & Activities category: Western hemisphere native art, artifacts; Historical museum; Provincial or municipal park; National Register of Buildings
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Rancho Simi
Simi Valley CA
~11.53 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Rancho Simi, also known as Rancho San José de Nuestra Senora de Altagarcia y Simi, was a 113,009-acre (457 km2) Spanish land grant in eastern Ventura and western Los Angeles counties given in 1795 to Francisco Javier Pico and his two brothers, Patricio Pico and Miguel Pico by Governor Diego de Borica. The name derives from Shimiji, the name of the Chumash village here before the Spanish
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Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles CA
~11.54 miles from Chatsworth city center
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The Skirball Cultural Center is a facility in Los Angeles, California devoted to Jewish culture and heritage. The center features a museum with regularly-changing exhibitions, film events, music and theater performances, comedy, family, literary and cultural programs.
The Skirball's facilities, first opened to the public in 1996, are located in the Santa Monica Mountains, not far from the Getty Museum in the Sepulveda Pass. The address is 2701 N. Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles. The site was designed by internationally-renowned Boston-based architect Moshe Safdie.
The Center is named after philanthropist-couple Jack Skirball and Audrey Skirball-Kenis, whose foundation largely funded its construction. The Center is an affiliate of Hebrew Union College.
The Skirball Museum predates the Skirball Cultural Center, having been established in 1972 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in L.A. The Museum moved into the Skirball Cultural Center after the center's completion.
The museum's permanent main exhibit is called Visions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America, and focuses on the history, accomplishments, and values of the Jewish people over 4,000 years. Exhibits show where Jews have lived around the world, how their experiences shaped current Jewish values, and the Jewish experience in the United States. Noah’s Ark at the Skirball is a family-oriented exhibit designed to encourage all generations to connect with one another, learn the value of community, and help build a better world. The floor-to-ceiling wooden "ark" contains exploration and challenge areas along with animal puppets created from recycled materials. The museum also offers changing exhibits of art, history and culture.
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Sherman Oaks (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~11.57 miles from Chatsworth city center
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Sherman Oaks is an 8.1-square-mile (21 km2) district in the San Fernando Valley area of the city of Los Angeles, California. In contrast to much of the Valley, the area is relatively urbanized, with commercial skyscrapers along Ventura Boulevard as well as scattered throughout. In addition, residential densities are highly mixed, with apartment and condominium neighborhoods alongside single-story residential ones. The area is a local hub for regional transportation, business, and shopping.
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