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10 unusual facts about Silver Lake


Bernard Daly

During a Christmas Eve party in 1894, an oil lamp started a fire in a crowded community hall in the small town of Silver Lake, Oregon.

Carl Esser

In 1995, Carl was found dead at his Silver Lake, Los Angeles apartment, apparently having died several days earlier from a cocaine-induced heart attack.

Christmas Valley, Oregon

Christmas Valley post office was established in 1963 as a rural station of Silver Lake.

Green and Yellow TV

The Green and Yellow TV was an American pop rock band that formed in 1997 when Michael Regilio, Todd O'Keefe and Justin Rocherolle uprooted from Boston and moved to the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, where the three met bass player Io Perry.

Gregory Gray

He wrote openly of being gay on his third LP, Euroflake in Silverlake, the title referencing the gay enclave of Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

Nobody Walks

23 year old Martine (Thirlby) has just arrived in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles when she moves into a wealthy family's pool house, and begins working to complete work on her art film.

Paul Roessler

In November 2011, he relocated to the newly opened Kitten Robot Studios in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of Los Angeles.

Saint Mary's Township, Perry County, Missouri

There are three unincorporated communities in St. Mary’s Township: Barks, Silver Lake and Yount.

Silver Lake, Missouri

Silver Lake is an unincorporated settlement in Saint Mary's Township in Perry County, Missouri.

Silver Lake, San Bernardino County, California

Silver Lake is a town that existed near the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, six miles north of Baker, in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California.


Antonia Scarpa

Moving to Los Angeles, Scarpa played with several of the bands that created the original “Silver Lake” scene including “Don Knotts Overdrive", and Interscope recording artists “Lifter” with Mike Coulter and Jeffrey Sebelia.

Battle of Buffington Island

Lt Commander Leroy Fitch's fleet included the Brilliant, Fairplay, Moose, Reindeer, St. Clair, Silver Lake, Springfield, Victory, Naumkeag, Queen City which were tinclads and ironclads.

Dangerbird Records

Founded by Peter Walker Grousbeck and Jeff Castelaz in 2004, the label is home to artists across the globe, as well as part of the burgeoning Silver Lake music scene.

Global Blue

Equistone Partners sold the business in May 2012, for 1 billion euros to the technology private equity firm Silver Lake, with Swiss private equity house Partners Group taking a minority stake.

I Am the Messiah

#"The Devil Went Down to Silverlake" (Gagel and Sir Rock-A-Lot) – 3:28

Live in Spaceland

The album is a ten track live recording, released through the American label, Spaceland Recordings, and recorded at Spaceland an alternative rock/indie rock nightclub in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on November 15, 2006, as part of NME Wednesday night concert series.

Los Angeles County Flood of 2005

Large amounts of rain also fell in the Mojave Desert, causing the usually dry Mojave River to reach its terminus at Soda Lake and overflow into Silver Lake, which it has rarely reached in recorded history.