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17 unusual facts about Burbank


Bruce Gary

Born in Burbank, California, the young Gary was a bundle of energy and for that reason his parents allowed him to set up the drum kit that his cousin had offered him after getting bored with it.

Buck Page

Page died in his apartment at the Burbank Senior Artists Colony in Burbank, California.

Burbank, Oklahoma

Rich and famous oilmen such as Marland, Frank Phillips, L. E. Phillips, Waite Phillips, and William G. Skelly stood in the shade of the Elm tree and bid in the auctions.

EskDale, Utah

The town is home to EskDale High School, which serves EskDale, Garrison, Utah, Burbank, Utah, and Baker, Nevada, along with other locals in the Snake Valley area.

FotoKem

FotoKem originated as a motion picture film lab located in Burbank, CA.

Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music

Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music was shot inside NBC's Studio 1, at its color television facility in Burbank, California.

Harrison Myers

At a workshop with Ernie and Elaine Lively in Burbank, he read a new script from sister team Deanna Shapiro and Julie Smith, called "The Legend of Cryin' Ryan" with his class, and was cast in the role of Kevin with Bailey Kipper's POV's Andi Eystad.

Henry Klumb

He's responsible for the design of the Battaglia, Coty and Meador houses in Burbank, CA, as well as the Plumb house in Los Angeles during that period.

Letters to Laugh-In

The highest-rated joke that day won the home viewer a prize (such as a trip to Hawaii), while the lowest-rated joke won a trip to "beautiful downtown Burbank".

Miguelito LaMorté

Miguelito LaMorté is a singer-songwriter, born Michael Christopher LaMorté in Burbank, California on December 26, 1969 to parents Anthony Fiore LaMorté and Mariann LaMorté.

Nilo Menéndez

Nilo Menéndez Barnet (Matanzas, 26 September 1902 - Burbank, California, 15 September 1987) was a Cuban-born naturalized American songwriter.

Samuel J. Aquila

Aquila was born on September 24, 1950 in Burbank, California and ordained a priest in 1976 for the Archdiocese of Denver.

San Dewayne Francisco

A resident of Burbank, Washington, his aircraft was shot down on November 25, 1968 during the Vietnam War.

Sister Suffragette

To amplify Disney's and Johns' mutual embarrassment, the misunderstanding only became apparent while both parties sat opposite each other in Walt Disney's Burbank studio lot office.

So-Cal Speed Shop

Founder Alex Xydias opened the shop on Olive Avenue in Burbank, California on March 3, 1946, the same day he was discharged from the Army Air Force.

Stalker Ichikawa

Joining CIMA, Don Fuji, and the Muscle Outlaw'z of Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino, he competed on the two-night Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament event for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla at the Burbank National Guard Armory in Burbank, California.

Stefanie Schaeffer

Schaeffer was born in Burbank, California to Gloria Peri-Smith and Peter Schaeffer, and was raised in Palm Springs.


Alex Xydias

In 1946, immediately after Xydias was discharged from the United States Army Air Corps, he opened the So-Cal Speed Shop in Burbank, one of the first hot rod shops in Southern California.

Brian Delate

Brian is best known worldwide for portraying Walter Moore/Kirk Burbank in the 1998 Paramount film The Truman Show.

Burbank Films Australia

In the years that followed, until 1988, Burbank adapted the works of many other well-known authors and legends, including Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers among many others.

Burbank Leader

The Burbank Leader is a biweekly newspaper published by the Los Angeles Times in Burbank, California.

Burroughs School

John Burroughs High School - a public high school located in Burbank, California

Consent to Treatment

It was recorded at Bay 7 Studios in Valley Village and Media Vortex in Burbank, California, and released in the United States August 15, 2000, by Universal Records.

DIC Entertainment

DIC Entertainment's American arm was founded in 1982 as DIC Enterprises, headed by Andy Heyward, Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi, in Burbank, California.

Dignity Health

Sheila Browne, RSM, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, West Midwest Community, Burbank, CA

Don Stanley

After moving to the television side in the 1950s (and, eventually, to their later studios in Burbank, California), he handled announcing duties for such television programs as The Sheilah Graham Show, One Man's Family, The Spike Jones Show, and NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.

Donnie Brooks

There was a special memorial service and rockabilly show in his honor on Sunday, March 26, 2007 at the Elks Lodge in Burbank, California.

Ether Ship

At the elite school's temporary campus of Villa Cabrini, in Burbank, California, they constructed and conducted various performance experiments, in collaboration with other artists and media visionaries of the time, including Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Morton Subotnick, Gene Youngblood, Serge Tcherepnin, Tom McVeety, Will Jackson, Larry Lauderborn, Sharon Grace, Naut Humon, Z'EV, et al.

Father Knows Best

Originally built in 1941 during the production of a series of Blondie movies, this theatrical property continued to serve for many more years as part of the backlot of Columbia Pictures (now Warner Brothers Ranch in Burbank, California).

Gary Burbank

On September 23, 2009, Burbank returned to the airwaves at his old time slot of 3p-6p with then hosts Eddie Fingers and Tracy Jones promoting his new book "Voices In My Head."

Hope Airport

Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, United States (IATA: BUR)

Jody Samson

Jody Samson (November 1, 1946 – December 27, 2008) was a knifemaker and bladesmith from Burbank, California who designed butterfly knives for Benchmade and the swords used in such movies as Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, First Knight, The Mask of Zorro, Blade, Blind Fury, Batman & Robin, Batman Forever, and Streets of Fire.

Jonathan Gems

Gems has written a number of unproduced scripts for Burton, including a Beetlejuice sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, an updating of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" set in Burbank, California, The Hawkline Monster, a cowboy/monster movie that was to star Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson and Go Baby Go, a beach movie in the style of Russ Meyer.

Lake Tahoe Airport

Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA): Burbank, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Ontario, San Diego, San Francisco

Lee Lanier

After working for Buena Vista Visual Effects at Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles, Lanier worked at PDI/DreamWorks in the San Francisco bay area—where he created digital special effects for the movies Shrek and Antz.

Leslie Harrison Dam

The dam forms Tingalpa Reservoir which is situated between the suburbs of Capalaba, Chandler and Burbank in Brisbane, Australia.

Let's Do It for Johnny!

Mixed by Tom Soares at Electric Lady Studios, NYC Except "The Bitch Song" Mixed by Matt Wallace at Encore Studios, Burbank, CA

Los Beltrán

Unlike the families of Archie Bunker and Alf Garnett, however, the Beltráns in the first episode are moving up from their working-class digs to a nice, middle-class duplex in Burbank, which they've bought thanks to some lottery winnings.

Luke Burbank

Burbank spent two months as host of NPR's short-lived morning show The Bryant Park Project, an experiment in alternate programming by the network that aired on 13 public radio stations.

Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues

It was recorded at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, California (which has since been renamed the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts).

Menasco Unitwin 2-544

In mid-1935 Lockheed's chief engineer, Hall Hibbard, began discussing with Al Menasco, the president of the Menasco Motors Company in Burbank, the merits of coupling two Menasco C6S Super Buccaneer six-cylinder in-line engines mounted side-by-side, driving a single propeller.

Metromedia Square

One of his other classic shows, Sanford and Son, remained taped at NBC Studios in Burbank; its 1980 revival, Sanford, was videotaped at Metromedia.

Northrop Alpha

Design work was done at the Avion Corporation, which in 1929, became the Northrop Aircraft Corporation based in Burbank, California.

Outerwall

March 25, 2008 Roy Disney, used his Shamrock Activist Value Fund of Burbank to ask for regulatory changes in Outerwall governance.

Ralph Andrews

From 1980-1986, Ralph Andrews and his production company had an office at Columbia Pictures' lot located at the Burbank Studios in Burbank, California.

Richard Burmer

After spending time in college studying music theory and composition, Richard moved to Los Angeles where he became a sound designer for E-mu Systems in Santa Cruz and engineer/synth programmer for EFX systems in Burbank.

Saturday Night Wrist

Recorded at the Carriage House, Stamford, CT; The Spot, Sacramento, CA; The Airport, Burbank, CA; The Hangar, Sacramento, CA; Morning View House, Malibu, CA

Steve Bing

On August 5, 2009, a 737 private aircraft owned by Stephen Bing and based out of hangar 25 at the Burbank airport in Southern California, was utilized in the return of American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee who had spent 5 months of a 12-year sentence in North Korea.

TBI plc

Additionally, TBI provides airport management services at Atlanta and Macon, Georgia and Burbank, California in the US.

The Dundies

The episode was filmed at a former Chili's in the San Fernando Valley, in the city of Burbank.

Tyler Newton

Newton attended John Burroughs High School in Burbank, California, where he lettered in volleyball and water polo while earning a scholastic achievement award.

Valley Glen, Los Angeles

In the "Mapping L.A." geographical section of the Los Angeles Times website, the 4.81 square miles of Valley Glen are bounded on the north by Raymer Street, Sherman Way or Vanowen Street, on the west by the Tujunga Wash, Woodman Avenue or Hazeltine Avenue, on the south by Burbank Boulevard and on the east by the Hollywood Freeway.

Valley Village, Los Angeles

It is bordered by the Ventura Freeway to the south, the Hollywood Freeway to the east, Coldwater Canyon Avenue to the west and Burbank Boulevard to the north.

Wally Rehg

Following his baseball career, Regh worked as an electrician helper at Paramount Pictures Studios until the time of his death, in Burbank, California, at the age of 57.