SUNLAND-TUJUNGA California "The Rock": Yes call it - "Saint Noho" - my views of my two valleys

MY MOM HAS PASSED AWAY please click to read more...

60 YEAR NOHO
RESIDENT
TILLIE ELOVITZ
1916 - 2006

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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.

WATZ THIS VISITING
ST & NOHO ???
coming Monday...

- HEY LUCY,
WE NEED SUM SPLAININ'

STOP THE PRESSES, AGAIN!
I WAS RIGHT ALL THE WAY...
there was a chair & eagle
on top of the sphere...

(see WHOLE STORY below)

I WAS RIGHT
AND
I WAS WRONG
then I AM CORRECT-
I said 'something' was
on top of the Noho
Welcome Art ...TRUE
I said an Eagle ...WRONG
no I was correct-
It was a CHAIR
standing on one leg
WITH AN EAGLE ON TOP !

GOOD OLD LUCY RICARDO,
aka Lucille Ball resides at
Magnolia & Lankershim home of the
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
the Emmy stands tall by the
rising eucalyptus trees
personifying the Arts District

As with the story below we have some other
monuments of note in Noho besides all our
acting favorites at the Emmy Circle...
Amelia the fated pilot is a historical note.

Then we have the SPHERE
seen here Welcoming All to Noho,
but click to enlarge and you see on
top the green of old brass
-AND I DO NOW REALLY REMEMBER
a 'chair standing on one leg'
ON TOP OF THE SPHERE,

I may be crazzzzi,
but I think it looked
like this a chair with an EAGLE
on top of the sphere

What happened to the
CHAIR ? & EAGLE?
Graffiti laden murals
get repaint jobs,
if this was VANDALISM,
is it going to be repaired.

MY HOMEWORK -call WENDY
or other Noho people...

ANSWERS EXPECTED
"What Happened to the Chair?"
SATURDAY & SUNDAY...

ALICE of Tom La Bonge's
Office & Regina of the
Community Redevelopment
Agency TOLD ME
that the monument
WAS VANDALIZED
and it is in the process
of being RESTORED

! yeah ! yeah !

-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.

more..
-MONUMENTAL NOHO ART

At Burbank and Lankershim and Tujunga,
which are all streets in North Hollywood,
there is the Noho Welcome monument,
and there is is, say no more...
NEW UPDATE:
I remember A CHAIR AND AN EAGLE
on top of the sphere?
SEE STORY ABOVE..

At the corner of North Hollywood Park by
the L.A. Library Branch where Tujunga
and Magnolia meet, there is a statue of
North Hollywood's famous native, the
flyer of fate, Amelia Earhart the pilot
doomed to history. Go to the library
or search engine to find out her story.
OK HERE'S A HINT

hint

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

-OPOSSUM STORIES
IN NOHO

this my new family pal,
I thought, turns out I think
there one or more...

One day in the Winter I heard
noises coming from the side
window of the living room,
this is in Noho, I looked out
at the bush that I put solar
powered nite ambient lites pointing up into the leaves.
At first I thought it was a mouse, I then noticed it was a
baby opossum getting warm on the led light fixture.
This happened again when I saw VIC ( see kitty story below)
looking out the window and looking at the baby opossum.
We didn't see it anymore till last month again when I was
chaparroning VIC ( he's an indoor cat) and I noticed him
stand up and pick up his tail like a hunting dog, and there
was are now teenage pal face to face with VIC. Well, I yelled
at him so there would be no accidental fighting. A few days
later I was outside in my tent watching TV, VIC was in the
house, and I saw my buddy, it was so matter of the moment
that I did not get any pics. Another nite I got this pic, above,
of our new occupant.
Yes, as of a few days with this heat I give water and catfood.
I heard rustling yestarday, had a flashlite, agin cam not there,
there were TWO OPOSSUMS.
-the tails continue...

-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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-PUT THE POLITICIAN
ON THE CORNER AND HE
MAKES A MOVIE BY HIMSELF
wb pic click on pic to see trailer more ST shots

Would you believe the corner shown in the pics below
recently had our GOVERNATOR, prior to him being
elected, making a major motion picture right at this
same corner of Foothill and Mt. Gleason?

IT IS TRUE...T 3 Terminator 3 was filmed extensively
in Sunland Tujunga and right at this corner where there
is now this new mini mall. We saw something being
built back then and said 'oh no another car repair shop?'
Then the rumors, and as you see it is, as in my pics,
the pre production of the movie from sets to before shooting shots.
YOU MUST come back and CLICK on each LINKs listed below *

THERE IS THE SAME
FIRE HYDRANT
AS SEEN IN THE MOVIE.

-GOVERNATOR PRODUCES
T3 IN SUNLAND TUJUNGA

THIS IS LOS ANGELES AND THE VALLEYS.
HOLLYWOOD MOVIEMAKING at its finest.
Yes, that is
OUR GOVERNATOR in his last epic FILMED in
SUNLAND TUJUNGA, right on the border of the two
cities at Foothill & Mt. Gleason. -TERMINATOR 3 !
See production pics by me, you must click on each link
here to see all the photos the set build-up, pre production... *
Page One * Page Two * Page Three * Page Four

-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.