TARZANA LEADER BARRY EDELMAN HELPS MAKE HISTORY ON AIDS LIFECYCLE 9 RIDE

2010 THE YEAR OF VALLEY ADVENTURES

Barry Edelman - center - 2010 photo by Gerald Fecht

Newly elected North Area Representative to the Tarzana Neighborhood Council, Barry J. Edelman, at the Ride’s closing ceremonies in Brentwood on Saturday June 12, 2010. Barry was a key "roadie" volunteer in the constantly moving camp’s Information Services.
California bluebird feeds its young in Santa Maria.

MOTHER AND CHILD IN 1923 - BEFORE IT WAS CALLED TARZANA

2010 -- The Year of Valley Adventures
Digital photo of Elsa (Rigg) Brown and son Loren Brown 1923 -
gift of Melissa Brown Bidermann 2010 – Archives of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley – photo 1438 (click on image to enlarge)

Melissa Bidermann of Granda Hills shares this priceless photograph of her family taken in the Fall of 1923. Here at the 25 acre Brown Ranch off of Ventura Boulevard near Reseda Boulevard, Elsa (Rigg) Brown holds her little son Loren Austin Brown.
The first 25 acres was bought around 1917 or 1918, and an additional 20 acres was added around 1925.
Elsa’s husband David Crane Brown was to become the first
president of the Tarzana Chamber of Commerce. His election is believed to have taken place at the Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzana Ranch.
Where now stands grocery and drug stores, and the 101 freeway rushes by, was once seen a great flat farming Valley. David Brown was once the president of the Valley Walnut Growers Association. Walnut saplings still "volunteer" throughout the west San Fernando Valley.

THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY COLLECTS AND STUDIES CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

- Tarzana Carpets - Vintage Postcard in the collection of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley - gift of Gary Fredburg 2008 -
Interested in a braided or oval carpet? Just call Tarzana Carpets at DIckens2-5119. McQueen's Tarzana Carpets also offered complete interior decorating services and draperies. The store was located at 18584 Ventura Boulevard, Tarzana.

Not only does your Museum collect artifacts and records of contemporary history and popular culture, but we share them with other historical organizations as well. For example, when we add to our vintage postcard collection an item like Tarzana Carpets, we notify groups such as the Tarzana Historical Museum, so that folks will know where to find information about their communities, or to have the item available for some future exhibit. We also share jpg high resolution photographs for their files.
In the future, your Museum hopes to provide common storage, restoration, conservation and exhibition services to our sister historical institutions as well.

The San Fernando Valley deserves a great Museum of history and culture.