THREE VINTAGE IMAGES OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

CHERISHING OUR VALLEY          2012

These three images from the San Fernando Valley are from vintage postcards given to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley by Gary Fredburg in 2012.  (click on images to enlarge them.)

Paradise Park's Camp Playtime - 5520 Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys. STate 6-6811 - date of postcard is unknown.

 Hollywood Freeway looking into the San Fernando Valley - The caption on the card sates that "Hollywood seen in the distance.  I think the caption is in error and that the view is looking into the Valley.
The card was mailed in 1968 to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McCreary - 228 Alton Street in Battle Creek, Michigan. The card reads:
"Hi Pals, Well the plane stayed up. Little heavy on one side. Boy there is no other way to go. Never thank the ground from B.C. to here. Go into Chicago on ramp. See lots things. Going to Disneyland Sun. H. going fishing Sat.   see you   Katherine Harold."

Jim Gentry's Safari Room - 15426 Devonshire, Mission Hills, California - When in San Fernando -= visit Jim Gentry's Fin and Feather - 800 San Fernando Road.

HARRY S. TRUMAN CAMPAIGNS FOR U.S. VICE PRESIDENT

CHERISHING OUR VALLEY               2012

Among artifacts recently donated to The Museum's archives of our political history is an 8 page brochure of the life and political history of Senator Harry S. Truman. Such documents not only provide information about candidates asking for San Fernando Valley votes, but reveal political strategies as well.  Here Senator, later to become President, Harry Truman presents himself as the ideal partner with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.   

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VERY EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF CAHUENGA PASS

CHERISHING OUR VALLEY              2012

Little by little, The Museum's archives are amassing an impressive history of the San Fernando Valley.  These two very early photographs of the Cahuenga Pass are important examples of how pieces of our historic puzzle are put together.  

Cahuenga Pass - date unknown - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Gary Fredburg 2012 - (click on image to enlarge it.)

      Great photographs like the one above often pose as many new questions as they answer.  What was this very impressive building or complex at the right? Future technologies may be able to use geological features in the photograph to give a precise location. In the meanwhile, it is your Museum's responsibility to care for the original images and share copies with scholars.

A stream leading into the Universal City, Studio City, North Hollywood area from the Cahuenga Pass- date unknown. Acquired by the donor Gary Fredburg at the same time as the overview photograph above.

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LA's MAYOR SAM YORTY LIVED IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

CHERISHING OUR VALLEY                 2012

Sam Yorty was a full-time politician who was elected to the US Congress, the California State Legislature and for a dozen year ... the Mayor of Los Angles. Sam, who lived in Studio City, seldom dodged giving his opinion about almost everything. He died in the Encino-Tarzana Medical Center.

This year Joe and Ladonna Van Wolf gave your Museum an heroic bronze bust of this love-him or hate-him mayor.

 Sam Yorty Political Memorabilia - Collection of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley 2012.
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THE ROAD TO THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

CHERISHING OUR VALLEY      2012

Among America's best loved comedy films of the 1940s and 50s were the famous "Road" movies of Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. All three blockbuster performers and supporters of the U.S.O. lived in Toluca Lake / North Hollywood.

 Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope - San Fernando Valley residents in 1940

 Hamming it up in a Road Movie were Hope, Lamour and Crosby (click on images to enlarge them)

The Life of Bob Hope, "They Got Me Covered" - 1941 first edition - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Gary Fredburg 2012. 

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