SUNLAND-TUJUNGA California "The Rock": August 2006

WELCOME TO

St. Noho
a native's eye on
Sunland Tujunga and North Hollywood

-My Introduction

first-timers
Please read
what this is
is all about.

OLD SCHOOL L.A.
old photos of
Los Angeles, Ca.

- HEY LUCY,
WE NEED SUM SPLAININ'

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-another st-noho AIR RAID SIREN

Victory@Tujunga

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-IF THE SHOE FITS drive it,
30 SECONDS OUT OF NOHO

Shoe Repair Car on Verdugo 30 seconds out
of North Hollywood. Pic by Video Louis Elovitz
This is on Verdugo an extension of Camarillo
from Noho. There is a good Pet Store around
the corner in this mini mall, and across the
street is a Chicago Hot Dog place, ummmmmm.

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-HOLLYWOOD FWY
or RAILWAY ?

Take a good look, if you ever drove from Hollywood
to the San Fernando Valley, Universal Studios,
North Hollywood, you first have to climb over the
Cahuenga Pass. Here we see the Barham Bridge
which is at the top of the grade and this is what see
here in this old pic when the middle portion was
given to the Red Car system which was started
in the early 1900's and ended in the 1950's and
eventually filled with freeway lanes which were
originally just a highway on the outside of the railway,
see way to the right. This view is looking towards
North Hollywood N.W. You can see the
LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT billboard on the right.

-HISTORY UNCOVERED,
ALMOST, IN NOHO

I took this cellphone pic
last week, it IS the Macy's
logo, BUT THE NEXT DAY
we still have OUR MAY CO,

UNDER THE BANNER SOON TO COME...

no, not Robinson's May, I will
always know it as MAY CO
and just this building not
the pre-earthquake
Laurel Plaza depicted
in this still up sign.

THE MAY CO building was built in 1955, I saw it
going up as I walked to Victory Elementary.
Four stories high and 5 stories below ground.
The IOF Independent Order of Foresters put on
Christmas Event with the Granada Hills Highlander
Band marching around this edifice you see here
as a helicopter landed with Santa. Laurel Plaza
was added on the Oxnard St. side and had an
Ice Rink and a few stores. It was torn down after
the 90's earthquake.

It does look like MACY'S the Federated Company
units will soon blanket the country. It is nice to
know this wonderful historical Noho building
will remain part of our community.

-NOHO POSSUM LIVE
ON VIDEO

this my new yard pet,
I thought, turns out I think
maybe I have two...
click for video

-JUST REMINDING
EVERYONE
OF THE HUMPS...

SUNLAND TUJUNGA FOOTHILL BLVD
GETS FRESH PAINT
while the humps have no markings at all
THE HUMPS MAKE YOUR CAR GO
BUMP BUMP BROKE
the mysterious humps of Tujunga Cyn Blvd.

WHY OH WHY OH WHY !
THE SHAME.

click any pic to read original story HUMPTY ...

-ALIEN INVASION
IN ST & NOHO

ALIEN INVADERS to Sunland Tujunga &
North Hollywood. It was the 1950's and
U.F.O.'s abound in Southern California

ALIEN VISITORS TO ST-NOHO ???

The LUER FRANKS company sent this rocket advertisement
out to various market openings. Children could go inside and
sit in the spaceship and watch a commercial laden cartoon.
Here it is in Sunland and I saw it myself as a child in the
Valley Plaza Shopping Center at Alexanders Market

-WHAT

What is being built
on tht NE corner of
Lankertshim & Oxnard ?

-WHY

Why has The City of L.A.
NOT COME THROUGH
as this dirt lot stands next
to the new LAUSD school...
PROMISES PROMISES.

MY MOM
LET US DO
helicopters
and Coca Cola
... IN NOHO !































up up and away...

I PERSONALLY KNOW
OF ONE AIRPORT IN
NORTH HOLLYWOOD,
and I grew up hearing
of another, both near
each other,
at different times.

When I grew up an older friend
David Kennedy, said his Dad had
flown his airplanes landing in the
WASH that is now the 170 where
his house was approximately in
the area of Laurel Cyn and Burbank NE near the WASH.

Movie Theater former
Alexander's Market

My Mom would always take us to shop. One area was
VALLEY PLAZA, or as she would jokingly call it,
"Valley Pleasure" the part SW of Sears by the Theater
which was an ALEXANDER'S MARKET.
Oh, the COKE MACHINE in this market on those hot
Valley days would dispense a bottle of COKE, 8oz,
that was so cold the first drinks were COKE SLUSH.

Victory Van Owen park
In Valley Plaza

The large parking lot is the same today leading to that
part of Victory Van Owen Park which WAS/IS on both
sides of the WASH/170FWY. The WASH was great
all that sand, and on the other side there was a slanting
concrete wall that we would get a piece of corrugated box
throw some sand and sliiiide!

Basically Victory Blvd
and Laurel Cyn

In 1957 (I looked it up on the web) L.A. Airways
paved a landing circle and road from Victory Blvd
to have a helicopter mail stop, which a man in a
station wagon would come and pick up US Mail.
My best friend Richard and I once took a passenger
trip on the noisy Korean Era helicopter leaving
VALLEY PLAZA going to Van Nuys, LAX,
Down Town L.A. and Burbank Airport
(BOB HOPE AIRPORT
originally LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT)
a very noisy but exciting flight.

SO, there you are
2 (TWO) airports in NOHO,
TOLD YA!.

email ST NOHO questions

-ANTARCTICA WEATHER
IN NOHO
57 (fifty-seven) YEARS AGO !

North Hollywood and all of L.A. fell under
a freak Winter storm in February of 1949.

COMPARE PICS 1949 versus 2006 in Noho.
My Dad once gave Dr. Fishbeck of Ch 7 news
weather copies of pics which were aired,
I think it was the 1970's. (Henry Elovitz)

1949 ...................................2006

First the front of the House
then the back and that is the same FENCE.

It WAS FEBRUARY 1949, just wanted
you all to coooool off a little.

VIC TANNY PICS
A CAT OF 2 CITIES

Vic Tanny was born in Sunland Tujunga and lived
6 years there. He has lived with his sister Sweety Pie
and they both moved with me to North hollywood
2 years ago. These pics are in Noho. Enjoy a product,
as myself, of both Valleys and Citys.

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-SUNLAND TUJUNGA EATS

Being hungry is one thing we like to take care of.
That early evening 'I do not want to cook' syndrom
takes hold, get the keys, let's go to JIMMY DEANS

Right at the same corner the 'little old lady' got the fine
for moving too slowly at Foothill & Woodward on the
northwest corner seen here on this video pan first showing
the old kmart, where the drive-in was, then shows the
crosswalk the lady got fined and then JIMMY DEANS.
You can eat inside or outside or use the drive-thru.
Hamburgers, hot dogs (ask them to grill 'em)
malts, shakes, fries, onion rings...
our hometown hangout.