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 the path (August, 1984) that by March, 1993 had been paved as Corbin Avenue.

In these two below, looking south from Rinaldi, the left shot is from March, 1987 and the right scene is from the early 1990s.

Finally, Gaudenti captured the snowfall that blanketed the Santa Susanas in February 1989. He's looking northwest from Corbin and Rinaldi (and remembers it was a nippy 33 degrees.) The latter photo was taken at the same spot four years later.

It's still possible to glimpse what the Valley used to look like in parts of Porter Ranch, but the natural landscape is vanishing fast. In fact, if you have nostalgia for the smell of new lumber and the sound of hammers and saws erecting houses, Porter Ranch is the place for you. Entire neighborhoods are still being built, just like across the rest of the Valley in the 1950s and '60s. The suburban sprawl leveling the foothills north of Rinaldi now reaches west to Browns Canyon.