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21 unusual facts about San Fernando Valley


Bart Andrus

Andrus was born in Logan, Utah and grew up in Sepulveda, California (now called North Hills), a community in the San Fernando Valley of the city of Los Angeles.

Channel Islands Air National Guard Station

In December 1988, after more than six decades of California Air National Guard flying tradition in the San Fernando Valley, the 146th Airlift Wing began moving from Van Nuys Air National Guard Base to a brand new facility, built on Federal land leased to the State of California, adjacent to the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division and NAS Point Mugu, an active duty Navy flying installation.

Dynamite Kablammo

Dynamite Kablammo (also referred to as DK) is a sketch comedy group based in the San Fernando Valley, established in 2006 by Greg Kaczynski, Matt DeNoto, and Candida Rodriguez.

Fay Spain

Both led busy lives and enjoyed their time away from work by relaxing in a home they remodeled in the San Fernando Valley of California.

Ferdinand III of Castile

Places such as San Fernando, La Union, San Fernando, Pampanga, and the San Fernando de Dilao Church in Paco, Manila in the Philippines, and in California, San Fernando City and the San Fernando Valley, were named for him and placed under his patronage.

Halfway Gone

The video was shot in the Anthony C. Beilenson Park (formerly Balboa Park) in the Lake Balboa district of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.

He Met Her

Rocky Chance grew up in the San Fernando Valley, the oldest child of modeling couple Paulette Banoza and Vito Banoza.

Heffer Wolfe

It is revealed in an episode (Specifically the episode 'Who's for Dinner?', where Heffer's "birthmark" is also revealed) that Heffer's biological father is still alive with a girl cow named Joyce living in a trailer in the Canoga Park section of the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States.

Jack Elway

In late March 1976, Elway was introduced as the head coach at Cal State Northridge in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.

Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings

A few months after Zevon's death, his son, Jordan, drove out to one of his father's storage spaces in the San Fernando Valley to begin the process of sorting through old recordings.

Robert Melgoza

Melgoza works closely with the Valley Cultural Center, helping them to raise funds for Music, Dance, and the Arts in the San Fernando Valley community.

Shirley Mitchell

She became engaged to Dr. Julian Frieden by early October 1946, holding her engagement shower at the San Fernando Valley home of singer Dinah Shore.

Ted Greene

He would also make occasional live appearances at clubs in the San Fernando Valley, usually playing a Fender Telecaster.

The Big High

Friday and Gannon pay a call on the Shipleys at their posh home in the San Fernando Valley.

The Dundies

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

The Gilded Palace of Sin

Most of the songs were written by Parsons and Hillman at a house in the San Fernando Valley dubbed "Burrito Manor."

The Way I Want to Touch You

This inspired the duo to record two songs, “The Way I Want To Touch You” and “Disney Girls” at a small recording studio (the size of a garage) located in the San Fernando Valley.

Tony Angell

In the early 1940s the Angell family took up residency in the San Fernando Valley, which was still largely undeveloped and surrounded by vegetable farms, citrus and walnut orchards.

Tribe of Gypsies

Tribe of Gypsies is a San Fernando Valley, California-based Latin rock group, best known for band leader/guitarist Roy Z who has produced, written for, and played with such well-known artists as Judas Priest, Rob Halford, and Bruce Dickinson who has used various members of Tribe of Gypsies to record his solo albums starting with 1994's Balls to Picasso.

Triplicate

Triplicate was purchased as an unsuccessful three-year-old for $6,000 by actor/dancer Fred Astaire who owned Blue Valley Ranch, a Thoroughbred breeding farm in the San Fernando Valley.

Under and Alone

William Queen was a nearly 20-year ATF veteran as well as a motorcycle enthusiast when, in 1998, a “confidential informant” contacted Queen's superiors, offering to help place an agent inside the San Fernando Valley chapter of the Mongols.


Alisa Childers

Born Alisa Noelle Girard to Karen and Christian music pioneer, Chuck Girard of Lovesong, she grew up in San Fernando Valley, California.

C.P.O. Sharkey

The series featured an early American primetime TV depiction of punk rock, with San Fernando Valley punk rock band, The Dickies, making a guest appearance.

Demographics of Los Angeles

Since World War II (1945 onward) most whites in these neighborhoods have relocated to other parts of the city (i.e. the San Fernando Valley and Westwood, Los Angeles), nearby suburbs including Orange County and Simi Valley in Ventura County, and other parts of Southern California.

East Hollywood, Los Angeles

The Hollywood Freeway, also called the 101 and U.S. Route 101, cuts northwest from downtown Los Angeles, with all its freeway connections, through Hollywood to the San Fernando Valley.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Starting in the early twentieth century, there was a large growth in population on the western edges of the city moving to the San Fernando Valley and out into the Conejo Valley in eastern Ventura County.

Joseph F. Holt

She had to determine which of the three men on stage was the real member of Congress, between a Chevron service station attendant/owner from the San Fernando Valley named Earl Sager and a press agent for Ringling Brothers Circus named Norman Carroll.

Lemoine Blanchard

He was brought to the San Fernando Valley when he was a year old, was educated locally and, after graduating from high school, he joined his father's North Hollywood firm, Blanchard Lumber Company, of which he later became owner.

Los Angeles City Council District 6

As the city expanded to the north and west, the 6th District's boundaries gradually shifted in those directions, but in 2002 the boundaries of the entire district were lifted out of West Los Angeles and transferred to the San Fernando Valley, as was the then-representative, Ruth Galanter, who protested the suddenness of the move.

Moses Sherman

Moses Hazeltine Sherman (December 3, 1853 – September 10, 1932) was an American land developer who built the Phoenix Street Railway in Phoenix, Arizona, and later built other lines and owned property in the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood, California.

Porter Ranch, Los Angeles

Porter Ranch is in the hilly northwestern tip of the San Fernando Valley, where, according to a 2008 Los Angeles Times article, it was a "calm outpost of Los Angeles" that attracted residents "seeking sanctuary from the urban hubbub."

Robert Rebhan

He is known for his strong advocacy of consumer protection and privacy issues, particularly in the state of California, having worked with the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council, the California Employment Development Department and the San Fernando Valley Employer Advisory Council.

Scott Wilk

He is a Republican representing the 38th district, encompassing Simi Valley, the northern section of the San Fernando Valley, and most of the Santa Clarita Valley.