EL CAMINO REAL BELL AT HISTORIC CAMPO DE CAHUENGA

In January 1972, San Fernando Valley’s Campo de Cahuenga received two important gifts. They were an El Camino Real bell and a painting in oil of Governor Pio Pico. They were presented to the Campo as part of the 22nd annual observance of the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga.
The bell, which still marks the great importance of the Campo, was a gift from the Mission Trails Woman’s Club (a chapter of the California Federation of Women’s Clubs).
The portrait of Governor Pico was painted by the Women’s Club’s art chair Pauline Pico. Ms. Pico is the wife of the grandson of the Governor.
Others who made the bell a reality were the North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, the Toluca Lake Chamber of Commerce, Campo’s neighbor University Studios, Campo de Cahuenga Historical Memorial Association, the Peyton Randolph Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the North Hollywood Rotary Club and the Native Daughters of the Golden West.

GOVERNOR PIO PICO ANNIVERSARY COMING SOON

2009 - The Year of Valley History

Governor Pio Pico from La Reina - Los Angeles in Three Centuries 1929 - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley by Gary Fredburg 2008 (click on image to enlarge)

NO HO WALKING TOUR
Despite the heat and smoke from the mountain wildfires, we had a good turn out this Saturday for The Museum's walking tour of historic North Hollywood. Special thanks to Director of Museum Tours, Richard Hilton, Fred Berk and Michael Stevens for their help making our in-tourists comfortable and welcome.

Pio Pico was the last governor of Alta California for the Republic of Mexico. With ancestors from Mexico, Europe and Africa, he would come to represent the many peoples now living in California. Pio Pico was born in the Mission San Gabriel on the 5th of May 1801. He died on September 11, 1894.