Everybody Knows is a new Valley-based blog to me, by a woman who recently moved to Calabasas and commutes to Beverly Hills. In a recent post called Take the Long Way Home, she describes her alternate route home through the...

Do you love the modern-era homes in the San Fernando Valley? Want to see inside some of the most notable examples of mid-century architecture? The Los Angeles Conservancy's modernism committee has arranged to have six homes open, with docents on...

Must admit I had not known of the old, now-dry Girard reservoir until the L.A. City Nerd blog mentioned it recently. Now the Daily News and the Los Angeles Times both have stories today about residents in Woodland Hills trying...

More than a month ago I gave Los Angeles Times editor-at-large Thomas Curwen some ideas for places that played meaningful but little appreciated roles in the history and lore of Southern California land and real estate. I'm happy to say...

Joe Dungan at the website The Simon drove out to Magnolia Boulevard to see if Sherman Oaks' most unusual city historic-cultural monument—make that the Valley's most unusual landmark—still stands. He found that the 22-foot tower of wooden pallets built by...

The blog Here in Van Nuys posted a series of evocative photos taken around the exterior of the decaying former Air National Guard base on the west side of Van Nuys Airport. Old hangars that used to be along Stagg...

If you want a glimpse of what the Valley terrain looked like 200 years ago, before wheat fields or orange trees, the new Michael D. Antonovich Regional Park is your place. The park opens to public use the rolling...

Victor Medina's moviesites.org gives the history and updated information on several Los Angeles area filming locations. Historic Beale's Cut, a favorite backdrop for Westerns, is located just on the north side of Newhall Pass from the Valley, off Sierra Highway....

The rock outcropping beside Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Chatsworth has caught people's eyes since before Portola led his expedition into the Valley in 1769 and came upon a society of native Tongva and Chumash. Native artifacts have been found at...

Reader Tony Gaudenti took these photos comparing the 1980s scenery to the later development of the old Benjamin Porter ranch foothills around today's intersection of Rinaldi Street and Corbin Avenue. The first pair are looking south from above Rinaldi down...

Hello,   My name is Anthony. I've lived in the valley my whole life. I recently purchased your book. It's great. I was reading through it and found a sentence under "Castle Peak: A beacon for the ages." It...

Jerry L. Schneider's great website Movie Making Locations Plus has posted the story (with photos) of Lasky Mesa. It was a historic movie location ranch apparently established by the Jesse Lasky-Famous Players Co. in 1914. Gone with the Wind and...

The former Southern Pacific Railroad station at Chandler and Lankershim boulevards is one of the last true relics of the 19th century San Fernando Valley. Built in 1895, it is reputed to be the oldest structure in North Hollywood....

The cemetery believed to be the Valley's second oldest (other than Mission San Fernando Rey) accepted burials from about 1870 to 1939 and contains some 750 graves. Recently the San Fernando Valley Historical Society took over ownership. Once known as...