Real estate ads in 1923 declared Fernangeles "Southern California's Newest City...Where San Fernando Road meets Lankershim Boulevard." Residence lots listed for $600 to $900, business lots $750 to $3200. The name suggested a San Fernando Valley country atmosphere, but with proximity to Los Angeles. Located on a busy north-south state highway, the ads claimed that Fernangeles would succeed because "one hundred thousand people have to pass this corner daily." The name, however, never really caught on. Today, Fernangeles — like Roscoe, its neighbor just south along San Fernando Road — is part of Sun Valley. The name survives on a Los Angeles city park and pool that opened in the late 1920s, and an elementary school built in 1946.

Fernangeles has been added to Gone But Not Forgotten, along with a new listing on the Tailwaggers Guide Dog Institute.