A REMINDER ON HOW TO MAKE COMMENTS

Childrens' Art School Project - Encino, California

GREETINGS MUSEUM COMMUNITY
Fred Berk, Librarian of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley wants to remind folks to begin your blog replies two lines down on the form. This makes sure than none of your remarks get cut off, or that the first sentence won't be blocked out. THANKS FRED

Also, if you are comfortable, sign your comments so that the Museum Community can correspond with you via the comments.
THANKS JERRY

PHYLLIS HANSEN'S WONDERFUL DISCOVERY!

It may take years to identify this school, let alone the names of these San Fernando Valley students and teachers. Simply marked on the back of the photograph, "San Fernando Valley", Phyllis Hansen's discovery adds yet another piece in the amazing puzzle called history.
Thanks Phyllis for sharing this image with the Museum Community.

WEBSITE CREATED TO INFORM COMMUNITY OF POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENTAL THREATS

Newly Created Freeway Through The Cahuenga Pass
Historic postcard collection - The Museum of the San Fernando Valley

The following information was sent to the Museum Community of the San Fernando Valley by Richard Bogy and Roy P. Disney. The educational and historical integrity of Campo de Cahuenga is at stake in this commercial expansion.

On behalf of the NBC Universal / MTA Working Group we’re pleased to introduce you to our new website. You can visit us at: http://nbcuworkinggroup.com

The NBC Universal / MTA Working Group is a federation of eleven long-established community organizations and four Neighborhood Councils, who represent the residential and business communities around the NBC Universal Studios and the Universal MTA site. The combined organizations of the Working Group represent more than 100,000 constituents and well over 1,000,000 annual stakeholders. The Working Group was formed after the announcement that NBC Universal would seek to develop and expand their existing facilities at Universal Studios and Theme Park / Hollywood and they would also exercise their option to develop the MTA Universal site, adjacent to the historic Campo de Cahuenga.

As currently presented, this development and construction project would represent one of the largest private construction projects in Los Angeles history. Some of the currently proposed and potential elements include:

MTA site: Up to 1.4 Million square feet of new development
Office tower(s) up to 26 floors in height
Hotel and condo tower up to 34 floors in height
Production facilities up to 100 feet in height
Illuminated and animated billboards and signage
Parking towers – up to 10 total floors in height & 4500 parking spaces
Retail spaces
All to be constructed on less than 10 acres of build able space and with
a planned completion date of June 2010

NBC Universal site: Up to 1.0 Million square feet of net new building space
Just under 3000 new homes and living units
A new hotel tower
A Reinvigorated and expanded City Walk complex
Reinvigorated tour spaces
New and additional production spaces

The proposed developments will be constructed in one of the most traffic chocked corridors of the City, including Barham Boulevard , the Cahuenga Pass and Cahuenga corridor, Lankershim / Cahuenga Boulevards and the combined 101 and 134 freeways.

This Group is committed to working in partnership with GE / NBC Universal and any and all developers of the properties to ensure a final project that will benefit NBC Universal, MTA, and the developers as well as preserving and enhancing the quality of life for those residents and communities that neighbor to and are directly affected by the projects.

Please visit our website often as the information contained within it will change on a regular basis. If you would like more information please contact us as shown in the website.

Thank you.

Roy P. Disney Richard Bogy
NBC Universal / MTA Working Group NBC / Universal MTA Working Group
General Chairman Vice Chair
Outreach and Communications

EFFORT TO SAVE THE HISTORIC COMMONWEALTH SAVINGS BUILDING

HISTORIC COMMONWEALTH SAVINGS BUILDING
5077 Lankershim Boulevard (Photograph by John Eng)
"Finest example of early high-rise commercial structures in the San Fernando Valley."

Shel Weisbach, San Fernando Valley history advocate wants to remind the Museum Community of an emerging campaign to save Commonwealth Savings.
A hearing before the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board (Commission) will occur on:
Thursday, July 12 at 10:00 AM.
Los Angeles City Hall, Room 1010.

Historic Cultural Nomination documents filed on behalf of the Commonwealth Savings Building by Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee are available from the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission.

YOUR MUSEUM HELPS TO KEEP YOU COOL!

Gary Fredburg as a boy in the great snow of 1949


Corner of Morrison and Ranchito "Our first home."
Photographs taken 13902 Morrison Street in Van Nuys, California

Museum Board Member, Gary Fredburge sends you photos of himself in cooler times --- The great snow of 1949.
Children were kept home from school, and some were terrified by something they had never seen before. Nearly everyone who lived in the San Fernando Valley at the time has a snow-story. Do you?

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