Vintage Los Angeles

Vintage Los Angeles

Historical photography, stories, and memories of old Los Angeles

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HomepageThe author of Tarzan started the original El Caballero Country Club on land once owned by General Otis of the LA Times
BirdWonderlandBird Wonderland Ventura Boulevard housed MGM's first heard roaring lion, the cockatoo in Casablanca, Dinah Shore's birds, Satan the movie tiger old LA
CanogafarmsFrank Flowers dried fruits allowed Our Lady of Grace's first mass on the packing room floor of Canoga Farms Encino history
Closed SFV HospitalsNorth Hollywood's Riverside Hospital (1950-1998), from Baby Boomer maternity ward to Dr. Brotman and then iconic Sacred Hearts set for Scrubs.
EarlyShermanOakshomesExplore early 20th Century Sherman Oaks homes. See vintage photos, historical facts, and learn how our local historian can research your house!
ElcaballeroThe author of Tarzan started the original El Caballero Country Club on land once owned by General Otis of the LA Times
FirstChineselawyersChan Chung Ling was the first Chinese lawyer in California, You Chung Hong founded Los Angeles’ Chinatown, and Hong Yen Chang was prevented from
FirstblacklawyersLosAngelesThe first black lawyers of Los Angeles were from the Caribbean Robert O' Hara Benjamin, also a newspaper man, then Ceruti Southern California NAACP leader
FirstlawyersofcaliforniaCalifornia's first lawyers were Mexicans and Los Angeles' first judge was Augustin Olvera who was learning to speak English in 1850
GermainsNurseryGermains Nursery landscaped Los Angeles from the late 1800s until 1957 from grow lot at Valley Glen Park on Ethel
GriffithparkLos Angeles myth the Rancho Los Feliz curse a cause of Griffith Park being donated to the City of Los Angeles.
HalwallisHal Wallis, A-list Hollywood producer built an English estate in Sherman Oaks on present day site of Millikan Junior High before receiving the Commander of the
Highway Patrol TvSherman Oaks & Valley Village 1958 and now, Mellethin's Laurel Canyon Office, Burbank, Victory, Ventura Blvd. Vintage
IcecapadesIce Capades North Hollywood Bewitched 1972, place for San Fernando Valley youth to grow up passage from literature
LahistoryOld Los Angeles photographs, images, and information not available elsewhere including, but not limited to, pop culture, suburbia, and mid-century Los Angeles
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RetroswimmingpoolsAn Explosion of Display Swimming Pools Fronted Mid-Century Sherman Oaks, Ventura Boulevard in a one-mile radius
SanfernandoPlentiful land, poultry farms, and ranches were the backdrop of the early San Fernando Valley before wide scale tract home development in the late 1940s
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UrbantrashVW slow car made fast fantasy Drag racing, Chandler Blvd.San Fernando Valley, vintage Sherman Oaks, California 1980s

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