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North Hollywood, Los Angeles
North Hollywood | |
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| Coordinates: 34°10′26″N 118°22′44″W / 34.1739°N 118.3790°W / 34.1739; -118.3790Coordinates: 34°10′26″N 118°22′44″W / 34.1739°N 118.3790°W / 34.1739; -118.3790 | |
| Country |  United States of America |
| State |  California |
| County |  Los Angeles |
| City |  Los Angeles |
North Hollywood is a neighborhood located in the east San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles. It is home to the NoHo Arts District and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and it has seven public and eight private schools. There is a municipal park and a recreation center. The neighborhood is an important transportation center.
North Hollywood was established by the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company in 1887. It was first named "Toluca" before being renamed "Lankershim" in 1896 and finally "North Hollywood" in 1927.
Contents
1 Demographics
2 Geography
3 History
3.1 Before annexation
3.2 After annexation
3.3 21st century
4 Attractions
5 Government and infrastructure
5.1 Transportation
6 Education
6.1 Public
6.2 Private
7 Parks and recreation
8 Notable people
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Demographics
The 2000 U.S. census counted 77,848 residents in the 5.87-square-mile North Hollywood neighborhood—or 13,264 people per square mile, about an average population density for the city but among the highest for the county. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 87,241. In 2000 the median age for residents was 30, considered an average age for city and county neighborhoods; the percentage of residents aged 19 to 34 was among the county's highest.[1]
The neighborhood was considered "moderately diverse" ethnically within Los Angeles. The breakdown was Latinos, 57.7%; whites, 27%; Asians, 5.7%; blacks, 5.6%; and others, 4%. Mexico (43.2%) and El Salvador (16%) were the most common places of birth for the 46.4% of the residents who were born abroad—a high percentage for Los Angeles. The percentages of never-married men and never-married women were among the county's highest.[1]
The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $42,791, considered average for the city but low for the county. The percentages of households that earned $40,000 or less were high for the county. Renters occupied 75.4% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 24.6%.[1]
Geography
North Hollywood is bordered on the north by Sun Valley and on the northeast and east by Burbank. Toluca Lake borders North Hollywood on the southeast and south, and Studio City abuts it on the southwest. It is flanked by Valley Village and Valley Glen on the west.[2]
It is not contiguous with Hollywood, being separated by other parts of the San Fernando Valley and the Hollywood Hills.
North Hollywood displays a hot summer Mediterranean Climate (Köppen climate classification Csa)
| Climate data for North Hollywood, Los Angeles | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °F (°C) | 65.1 (18.4) | 66.4 (19.1) | 69.2 (20.7) | 72.9 (22.7) | 75.4 (24.1) | 79.2 (26.2) | 87.6 (30.9) | 88.3 (31.3) | 87.1 (30.6) | 80.3 (26.8) | 74.6 (23.7) | 68.9 (20.5) | 76.2 (24.6) |
| Average low °F (°C) | 38.7 (3.7) | 40.5 (4.7) | 42.8 (6.0) | 47.0 (8.3) | 50.3 (10.2) | 52.8 (11.6) | 57.9 (14.4) | 56.9 (13.8) | 54.9 (12.7) | 49.1 (9.5) | 40.9 (4.9) | 40.6 (4.8) | 47.7 (8.7) |
| Average rainfall inches (mm) | 3.47 (88) | 3.80 (97) | 2.62 (67) | 1.18 (30) | 0.15 (3.8) | 0.01 (0.25) | 0.01 (0.25) | 0.04 (1.0) | 0.30 (7.6) | 0.45 (11) | 1.32 (34) | 2.99 (76) | 16.34 (415.9) |
| Source: https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ca6256 | |||||||||||||
History
Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company 1887
Before annexation
North Hollywood was once part of the vast landholdings of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España, which was confiscated by the government during the Mexican period of rule.
A group of investors assembled as the San Fernando Farm Homestead Association purchased the southern half of the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando.[when?] The leading investor was Isaac Lankershim, a Northern California stockman and grain farmer, who was impressed by the Valley's wild oats and proposed to raise sheep on the property. In 1873, Isaac Lankershim's son and future son-in-law, James Boon Lankershim and Isaac Newton Van Nuys, moved to the San Ferndando Valley and took over management of the property. Van Nuys thought the property could profitably grow wheat using the dryland farming technique developed on the Great Plains and leased land from the Association to test his theories. In time, the Lankershim property, under its third name, the Los Angeles Farming and Milling Company, would become the world's largest wheat-growing empire.[3][4]
In October 1887, J.B. Lankershim and eight other developers organized the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company, purchasing 12,000 acres (49 km2) north of the Cahuenga Pass from the Lankershim Farming and Milling Company.[5] Lankershim established a townsite which the residents named Toluca along the old road from Cahuenga Pass to San Fernando. On April 1, 1888, they offered ready-made small farms for sale, already planted with deep-rooted deciduous fruit and nut trees—mostly peaches, pears, apricots, and walnuts—that could survive the rainless summers of the Valley by relying on the high water table along the Tujunga Wash rather than surface irrigation.[6][7]
Lankershim School, located near what is now the intersection of Vineland and Riverside, and the first school in the San Fernando Valley, c.1889
The land boom of the 1880s went bust by the 1890s, but despite another brutal drought cycle in the late 1890s, the fruit and nut farmers remained solvent. The Toluca Fruit Growers Association was formed in 1894. The next year the Southern Pacific opened a branch line slanting northwest across the Valley to Chatsworth. The Chatsworth Limited made one freight stop a day at Toluca, though the depot bore the new name of Lankershim. With the post office across the street being called Toluca, controversy over the town's name continued, and the local ranchers used to quip, "Ship the merchandise to Lankershim, but bill it to Toluca." In 1896, under pressure from Lankershim, the post office at Toluca was renamed "Lankershim" after his father, although the new name of the town would not be officially recognized until 1905.[8][9]
By 1903, the area was known as "The Home of the Peach". In 1912, the area's major employer, the Bonner Fruit Company, was canning over a million tons of peaches, apricots, and other fruits.[10] When the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened in 1913, Valley farmers offered to buy the surplus water, but the federal legislation that enabled the construction of the aqueduct prohibited Los Angeles from selling the water outside of the city limits.[11]
At first, resistance to the real-estate development and downtown business interests of Los Angeles remained strong enough to keep the small farmers unified in opposition to annexation. However, the fruit packing company interests were taken over by the Los Angeles interests. The two conspired to decrease prices and mitigate the farmers' profit margins, making their continued existence tenuous. When droughts hit the valley again, rather than face foreclosure, the most vulnerable farmers agreed to mortgage their holdings to the fruit packing company and banks in Los Angeles for the immediate future and vote on annexation.[citation needed]
After annexation
Circus Liquor, landmark sign dating from 1959
West Lankershim (more or less today's Valley Village) agreed to be annexed to the City of Los Angeles in 1919, and Lankershim proper in 1923.[12][13] Much of the promised water delivery was withheld, and many of the ranchers one by one had their holding foreclosed or transferred to the packing companies. In turn, these were bought up by the real-estate developers and by the late 1920s a massive effort was underway to market the area to prospective home owners throughout the country. As part of this effort, in 1927, in an effort to capitalize on the glamour and proximity of Hollywood, Lankershim was renamed "North Hollywood".[10] The result was a massive development of housing which transformed the area into a suburban development of Los Angeles.
By the late fifties, many of the original owners were aging, and their children were moving to other areas. School integration in the subsequent years, blockbusting, and subsequent ethnic turmoil encouraged many remaining families to move out, who in turn were replaced with black and Hispanic families moving from the downtown areas. By the 1990s, the demographic changes had almost completely transformed the region.
The North Hollywood shootout occurred in 1997 leaving 12 Los Angeles Police Department officers and eight civilians injured and the two armed robbers dead.
21st century
High-density property development in "NoHo"
Since 2000, the community has been undergoing many changes and developing, thanks in large part to the formation of the 743-acre North Hollywood Development District and the subsequent NoHo Commons projects.[14]
In 2015 Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood was part of the first San Fernando Valley CicLAvia, an event sponsored by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in which major roads are temporarily closed to motorized vehicle traffic and used for recreational human-powered transport.[15]
Attractions
The Idle Hour Cafe on Vineland Ave.
North Hollywood is home to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park is located in the area, and includes the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation.
Universal Studios is also located on the border between Hollywood and North Hollywood, easily accessible through one of NoHo's main streets, Lankershim Blvd. Universal Studios has several attractions inside the actual park and in the non-paid CityWalk section. North Hollywood has several art houses, restaurants and theaters as well.
Government and infrastructure
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services has the Antelope Valley Area Health Office and the San Fernando Valley Area Health Office in a facility in North Hollywood.[16][17] The department operates the North Hollywood Health Center in North Hollywood.[18] In addition the department operates the Glendale Health Center in Glendale, serving North Hollywood.[19]
The United States Postal Service operates the North Hollywood Post Office at 7035 Laurel Canyon Boulevard,[20] the Valley Plaza Post Office at 6418 Bellingham Avenue,[21] and the Victory Center Post Office at 6535 Lankershim Boulevard.[22]
Transportation
North Hollywood station LA Metro
North Hollywood Pacific Electric Car Station, 1919
The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission took years, but finally in 1990 approved the construction of the subway connecting North Hollywood to Hollywood, East Hollywood, Koreatown, Westlake and downtown Los Angeles along the Metro Rail Red Line. The decision followed the Los Angeles City Council unanimously endorsing North Hollywood as the northern terminal of the Red Line with the final route having termini at Union Station and North Hollywood. The North Hollywood Metro Subway station opened in June 2000. Close to half a million people took advantage of free rides on the 17.4-mile (28.0 km) Red Line subway in its first weekend in operation. The station is the starting point for the Red Line Metro system, which cost $4.5 billion to construct.
The tunnel to connect the Metro Red Line Hollywood leg to the San Fernando Valley extension cost $136 million. It included the cost of digging a tunnel under the Santa Monica Mountains. The tunneling work was done by a Traylor Brothers/Frontier-Kemper joint venture. The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and the Sierra Club had fought to prevent the tunneling but ultimately lost. Environmentalists were concerned that the removal of billions of gallons of ground water might affect springs, wildlife and vegetation.
Tunneling from North Hollywood for the subway started in 1995. Workers dug 70 feet (21 m) deep using tunneling machines. Work progressed an average of 50 to 200 feet (15 to 61 m) daily, performed by work crews round-the-clock six days a week. The machines bored through soil that once lined the bottoms of ancient oceans.
The two tunnels between the North Hollywood and Universal City stations were a total of 10,541 feet (3,213 m). The cost of building the two tunnels was $65.4 million and involved 250 workers.
A further Red Line extension was replaced by the Metro Orange Line bus rapid transit. Its terminus is located across the street from the subway station. This expanded the station area into a transit hub, and many local and rapid buses now stop at the station. Proposals have been made to extend the Red Line northeasterly to Bob Hope Airport in Burbank and the Burbank Metrolink station in central Burbank, or to extend it in a northwesterly direction along Lankershim Boulevard and eventually to Sylmar, a proposal which was mentioned in at least one published account in the press by former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Neither project is currently funded nor is in Metro's Long Term Transportation Plan.
Education
East Valley High School
Eighteen percent of North Hollywood residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, an average figure for both the city and the county. The percentage of the same-age residents with less than a high school diploma was high for the county.[1][23]
Schools within the North Hollywood boundaries are:[24]
Public
- Bellingham Primary Center Elementary School, 6728 Bellingham Avenue
- Fair Avenue Elementary School, 6501 Fair Avenue
- Lankershim Elementary School, elementary, 5250 Bakman Avenue
- Maurice Sendak Elementary School, 11414 West Tiara Street
- Oxnard Street Elementary School, 10912 Oxnard Street
- Victory Boulevard Elementary School, 6315 Radford Avenue
- James Madison Middle School, 13000 Hart St
- Roy Romer Middle School, 6501 Laurel Canyon Boulevard
North Hollywood High School, 5231 Colfax Avenue
East Valley High School, 5525 Vineland Avenue- North Hollywood Adult Learning Center, LAUSD Adult Education, 10952 Whipple Street[25]
Private
Dubnoff School main building, built 1967
- Dubnoff Center for Child Development, K–12, 10526 Dubnoff Way. The school's main building was designed in 1965 by Ena Dubnoff in association with Flores, Gelman and Green.
- San Fernando Valley Professional School, K–12, 6215 Laurel Canyon Boulevard
- St. Paul's First Lutheran, Pre-K-8, 11330 McCormick Street, a school of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)[26]
- St. Patrick Elementary School, 10626 Erwin Street [27]
- Montessori Academy of North Hollywood, elementary, 6000 Ensign Avenue
- Laurel Hall, elementary, 11919 Oxnard Street
Oakwood High School, 11600 Magnolia Blvd- Or Hachaim Academy, elementary, 6021 Laurel Canyon Boulevard
- The Wesley School, elementary, 4832 Tujunga Avenue
- St. Charles Borromeo, elementary, 10650 Moorpark Street
Parks and recreation
The North Hollywood Recreation Center is mostly in North Hollywood, with a portion in Valley Village.[28][29] The park has an auditorium, lighted indoor baseball diamond courts, lighted outdoor baseball diamonds, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, lighted handball courts, picnic tables, an outdoor unheated seasonal pool, and lighted tennis courts. In addition the center has an indoor gymnasium which can be used as a second auditorium and a community room; the gymnasium's capacity is 250 people.[29]
The Valley Plaza Recreation Center in North Hollywood includes an auditorium, barbecue pits, a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a 40-person community room, a lighted American football field, an indoor gymnasium without weights, an outdoor gymnasium without weights, picnic tables, lighted tennis courts, and unlighted volleyball courts.[30] The Jamie Beth Slaven Park, an unstaffed pocket park with unlighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, and picnic tables, is in North Hollywood.[31]
Notable people
Gene Autry, actor[32]
Corbin Bernsen, actor[33][34]
Brennan Boesch, MLB baseball player[35][36]
Everett G. Burkhalter (1897–1975), California politician[37][38]
Adam Carolla, North Hollywood High School[39]
Nudie Cohn, tailor[40]
Vince DiMaggio, baseball player[41]
Tina Jordan, model[42]
Dorothy Lamour, actress[43]
Robin Lopez and Brook Lopez, NBA basketball players[44][45][46]
Bruce Manson, tennis player[47]
Randy Rhoads (1956–1982), guitarist[48]
Hervé Villechaize (1943-1993), actor[49]
Jim Wilson, City Council member[50]
See also
Los Angeles portal
Los Angeles portal
References
Notes
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^ "Map." Valley Village Neighborhood Council. Retrieved on September 21, 2009.
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^ "Valley Plaza Recreation Center." City of Los Angeles. Retrieved on March 19, 2010.
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^ Biography from a USA Network website for Psych
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ISBN 1-883792-55-X
External links
 | Wikivoyage has a travel guide for North Hollywood. |
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Los Angeles Times, Real Estate section, Neighborly Advice column: "North Hollywood: NoHo finds its mojo in a colorful, artsy sort of way" (27 July 2003)- North Hollywood crime map and statistics
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