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Blog archive: Valleywood
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Oh crumb. Dennis McCarthy's column in the Daily News brings word that the 11-acre Jack Oakie estate — maybe the last intact vestige of the old Northridge horse culture — is being developed into 29 homes. The estate at 18650...
Posted January 13, 2007 07:55 PM
In the August issue of In Style magazine, New York actress Mary-Louise Parker talks about one of her beauty rituals: "When I'm in L.A., I get facials from a woman out in the Valley. Her name is Myrna Kaufman."...
Posted July 18, 2006 07:53 PM
Anybody know if this Chatsworth rock formation survived time, construction of the Simi Valley Freeway, rocket testing at Rocketdyne (now Boeing) and development of the Iverson movie ranch into condos? The 1912 photographs (left and right) are in the Online...
Posted May 17, 2006 05:59 PM
The CW television network, which launches this fall, will call Burbank home. Created by a merger of CBS-owned UPN and Time-Warner's WB, the new network will be based in the Pinnacle tower under construction at Olive Avenue and the 134...
Posted April 2, 2006 01:16 PM
It won't do anything good tor the Valley's image, but Crash is the first Oscar winner for best picture to be set mostly in (and about) the San Fernando Valley. Ventura Boulevard, Ventura Court and Hoffman Street all get serious...
Posted March 7, 2006 05:18 PM
Meghan, who works behind the camera in Valleywood and blogs at Musings, is still getting used to seeing celebs in her neighborhood. Her recent run-in came at a farmers market. While at the Studio City market, I was walking around...
Posted February 10, 2006 02:02 AM
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...
Posted February 1, 2006 05:29 PM
On the hit Fox TV show "The O.C.", a running story line has the young, attractive and mostly spoiled Orange County kids watching a soap opera called "The Valley." The joke is that the characters and plot lines in "The...
Posted February 1, 2006 05:10 PM
After his service in World War II, director John Ford wished to honor thirteen colleagues who did not return from overseas service in the Naval Field Photographic Reserve. The unit, which Ford commanded, was made up mostly of cinematographers, actors...
Posted February 1, 2006 02:38 PM
This chapter appears in The San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb by Kevin Roderick. The first filmmakers to come to the Valley, soon after the turn of the 20th century, were attracted by its versatile terrain and authentic-looking western locations. Early...
Posted November 24, 2005 01:39 PM
