I’m not from Los Angeles but I’m really curious about the valley. You always hear people talk about it like it’s the new jersey of the west coast. Is it really so bad?
The valley
by Anonymous | reply 142 | November 19, 2023 5:41 PM |
It’s not bad, but the further away from the Hollywood Hills you are, the more bland it becomes with strip malls and lower working-class people.
It’s also cut off from ocean breezes and becomes hot as fuck in the summer.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 26, 2023 8:03 AM |
Perfect description R1.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 26, 2023 8:09 AM |
I actually like the Valley. My sister raised her two boys in Sherman Oaks and it really grew on my.
So, yeah. I actually like the Valley. I admit it.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 26, 2023 9:57 AM |
Not the Valley, no, the SIMI VALLEY yes
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 26, 2023 10:01 AM |
The Valley was where droves of middle-class Whites fled, panically abandoning some of the nicer areas of the West L.A. hills, after a few Black lawyers and doctors moved in.
Sixty years later, the grandchildren of those who fled, eager to escape the Valley’s boredom and relentless heat, are using familial loans and inheritances for down payments on the now million+ dollar homes in the integrated neighborhoods their grandparents abandoned.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 26, 2023 11:36 AM |
It's a long day, living in Reseda; there's a freeway, running through the yard.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 26, 2023 12:09 PM |
[quote] You always hear people talk about it like it’s the new jersey of the west coast
This is interesting you say this because on my first visit to Los Angeles, on the drive from LAX downtown, I couldn’t get over how much Los Angeles looked like New Jersey with palm trees. I think much of the derision of the Valley comes from projection of Los Angeles’s insecurities.
That being said, the Valley gained a reputation for seediness partly through the birth of the pornographic video industry there. I don’t think a pornographic industry really exists anymore in that sense because the internet has fractured it so much, but in the 70s and 80s Boogie Nights era, the Valley was indeed the Hollywood of porn.
Further derision of the Valley comes from its trapped heat and air pollution.
I would like to add that derision of the Valley comes from an era when the LA basin was not an ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE ZOMBIE DYSTOPIA APOCALYPSE. Even the wealthiest celebrities ensconced in Brentwood and Bel Air regularly post on social media about the horror of contemporary Los Angeles living. Being in “the good side” of Los Angeles is no longer relevant.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 26, 2023 12:28 PM |
[quote] The Valley was where droves of middle-class Whites fled, panically abandoning some of the nicer areas of the West L.A. hills, after a few Black lawyers and doctors moved in.
I always wonder if some people here post from another planet.
Middle class whites abandoned South Los Angeles and moved to the Valley because they did not want live next to working class blacks. The friction between whites and segregated blacks in South LA was the cause of the Watts riots.
“…most of these suburbs (in the Valley) barred black people, using a variety of methods. White middle-class people in neighborhoods bordering black districts (in South LA) moved en masse to the suburbs, where newer housing was available. ”
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 26, 2023 12:38 PM |
BEST representation of "The Valley" from the series "It's Like, You Know."
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 26, 2023 12:41 PM |
R1 when describing physical distance, correct word is "farther." Easy to remember, begins with "far."
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 26, 2023 12:44 PM |
R8: White flight happened long before the Watts riots.
Don't forget "the other valley", the San Gabriel, which also looks like NJ with palm trees and is miserable in the summer.It's East of downtown. It's now mostly Asian, but was mostly white and middle income--those people went to the Inland Empire (even duller and hotter) or to places like NV and AZ.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 26, 2023 12:45 PM |
Did I say White Flight happened after the Watts riots only? Dumbass.
Almost all white flight happened starting after World War 2.
“In the United States during the 1940s, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, low-cost mortgages through the G.I. Bill, and residential redlining enabled white families to abandon inner cities in favor of suburban living and prevent ethnic minorities from doing the same.”
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 26, 2023 12:49 PM |
Additionally, alongside the race riots, sensational crimes like Tate-La Bianca (Benedict Canyon and Los Feliz) instigated white middle class families to leave central Los Angeles for the safety of the Valley.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 26, 2023 12:58 PM |
The valley was mostly developed in the 50s. well before the riots. "dumbass"
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 26, 2023 2:53 PM |
And I said, “Almost all white flight happened starting after World War 2.”
When were you diagnosed with your learning disorder?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 26, 2023 3:00 PM |
OMG, working class people! Run!
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 26, 2023 3:55 PM |
People are writing as if the Valley was populated solely due to whites fleeing LA, when in fact, after WWII the so-called Great Migration began and people moved there from all over the country, which continued unabated until the '70s and beyond. Half a million people. Farms slowly were replaced by housing developments, and industry moved in.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 26, 2023 4:00 PM |
(Both valleys and the whole LA suburban area.)
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 26, 2023 4:02 PM |
[quote]Don't forget "the other valley", the San Gabriel, which also looks like NJ with palm trees and is miserable in the summer.It's East of downtown. It's now mostly Asian, but was mostly white and middle income--those people went to the Inland Empire (even duller and hotter) or to places like NV and AZ.
I live in the SGV and it's certainlly not "mostly Asian," although a few cities have Asian majorities.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 26, 2023 4:13 PM |
As a child of the late 50’s, I lived in the (then overwhelmingly White) Hills of West LA (View Park). For sale signs popped up like mushrooms the month after two Black families (one headed by a doctor the other a school vice-principal) moved in.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 26, 2023 4:15 PM |
[quote]Almost all white flight happened starting after World War 2.
Mildred Pierce lived in Glendale.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 26, 2023 4:17 PM |
FUN FACT: Sharon Gless’s maternal grandparents owned more than 42,000 acres of land in the San Fernando Valley and sold it off for development during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 26, 2023 5:01 PM |
R19: Arcadia, Rosemead, Covina, West Covina, Alhambra, San Gabriel, San Marino. Are you counting Pasadena--which is very diverse? May be El Monte (mostly Hispanic). Not a lot of white majority towns.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 26, 2023 5:11 PM |
The porn industry was pretty much restricted to Chatsworth which is the Centra/North Valley.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 26, 2023 5:13 PM |
R23 Sierra Madre is.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 26, 2023 6:16 PM |
R7
The drive from LAX to Downtown doesn’t get near the Valley but it seems as if you are saying it does. I’ve been in NJ plenty of times but never thought it looked like the LA basin (Beverly Hills, Westwood, Hollywood, etc.).
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 26, 2023 6:22 PM |
R21, Kabobdale?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 26, 2023 6:22 PM |
[quote] The drive from LAX to Downtown doesn’t get near the Valley but it seems as if you are saying it does.
Because you have reading comprehension issues.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 26, 2023 6:34 PM |
I think it's the areas South of downtown LA that feel like NJ. The Valley has its own phisonomy and character, and I don't think it can be compared to any place, especially any place on the East Coast.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 26, 2023 6:34 PM |
The drive up the 110 looks exactly like New Jersey with palm trees
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 26, 2023 6:36 PM |
As others have noted, there are 2 valleys in LA- San Fernando and San Gabriel. "THE" Valley is San Fernando and is north (over) the Sepulveda pass. Because of its landlocked nature, the valley is hotter, smoggier and junkier. There is great Mexican and Latin food in the valley because of the larger ethnic groups there. It's flat, concrete, strip malls everywhere, and can be depressing. There are bad areas as linked, on the map.
I don't really consider Burbank/Universal City/N Hollywood/Glendale/Atwater Village the valley. That's kind of an extension of both Hollywood and the Foothills.
San Gabriel Valley (SGV) is a whole different animal and is already discussed above. ASIAN. Also hot. Pasadena, South Pas, La Canada Flintridge, and Arcadia are the best cities/towns.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 26, 2023 6:52 PM |
I’ve never heard anybody say they don’t consider Burbank or Glendale to be the Valley.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 26, 2023 7:41 PM |
I lived in Eagle Rock/Pasadena/Altadena for years and love it. If I can afford to retire there, I'm heading back. Winter and snow sucks.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 26, 2023 7:46 PM |
Oh honey have you been back to those areas recently? The guy who won the billion dollar lottery was from Altadena and he got the hell out of there.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 26, 2023 7:50 PM |
Burbank is the edge of the Valley, Glendale is definitely not the Valley.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 26, 2023 7:50 PM |
I saw that he bought a big house in the hills which I guess is the flex people make when they have the means. I still love those Craftsman bungalows, sue me.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 26, 2023 7:52 PM |
It literally begins “ Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley”
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 26, 2023 7:57 PM |
But it isn't.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 26, 2023 7:59 PM |
My grandparents worked in downtown Los Angeles during the Watts riots, but lived in Temple City (in the "other valley" R11 is referring to) at the time. I know my grandpa had some stories from that time. After the Manson murders, he threw in the towel and said "fuck this, we're going back to Oregon," where they were both from. He was insistent on not raising my dad and aunt in LA after that, and dragged them along with my poor grandmother (who loved Los Angeles) back to her podunk hometown of 2,000 in eastern Oregon. Needless to say, I think my father and aunt experienced significant culture shock.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 27, 2023 5:18 AM |
Great firsthand anecdote, thanks r39
“With seven people dead and the lone suspect cleared, fear consumed Los Angeles. A Beverly Hills sporting goods store sold 200 firearms in two days. The price of guard dogs rose from $500 to $1,500.
WARREN BEATTY, actor and director. He helped fund a $25,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the Tate killers. He is 72. This hit the movie community very deeply. On a 10-point scale it disturbed me at around a 27. Jay Sebring, Sharon, Abigail, and Voytek were friends of mine. It was something that happened, and no one knew why. Everybody was trying to come up with a reason. The collective response to these killings was what you might expect if a small nuclear device had gone off.“
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 27, 2023 11:52 AM |
We are The valley.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 27, 2023 12:43 PM |
I would classify Glendale as one of the east entrances to the Valley coming from the I-5 (Golden State Freeway). The other east entrance is over Cahuenga Pass from DTLA, on the 101 (Hollywood Freeway), I e Studio City, Toluca Lake.
The western entrance is Sepulveda Pass (I-405, aka the San Diego Freeway) leads to Sherman Oaks, Encino.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 28, 2023 4:40 AM |
I knew a slut from there once.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 28, 2023 4:57 AM |
[quote] Even the wealthiest celebrities ensconced in Brentwood and Bel Air regularly post on social media about the horror of contemporary Los Angeles living. Being in “the good side” of Los Angeles is no longer relevant.
People in L.A. love to complain. Yes, the homeless situation is out of control but i've little sympathy for the complainers. It's no one's fault that you cannot part with your 2bd/2ba bungalow in Palms even though it's worth $1.5 million -- Idaho is calling! Even when reactionary has-beens like Scott Baio and Antonia Sabato Jr. make a big MAGA song-and-dance out of leaving LA you know they're leaving begrudgingly and with deep regret.
Everybody loves the sunshine...
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 28, 2023 6:03 AM |
R33 Have you looked at the housing prices?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 29, 2023 7:57 PM |
I live in the Valley and I love it. Every time I have to drive "over the hill" into Hollywood or worse, Santa Monica, I dread it. The valley isn't perfect but it's far less crowded than those areas and cheaper to live here but not by much.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 29, 2023 8:24 PM |
Burbank and Glendale are the only parts of that area that aren't in the City of Los Angeles (other than San Fernando itself and Universal City.) All of those other Valley towns (Sherman Oaks, Reseda, Valley Village, Woodland Hills, North Hollywood, Encino, Van Nuys, Pacoima, Studio City, Northridge, etc.) are actually Los Angeles.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 30, 2023 12:00 AM |
R48: You are splitting legal/civic hairs. Geographically (and culturally) they are ALL "The Valley".
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 30, 2023 1:52 PM |
La Canada-Flintridge always gets left out
by Anonymous | reply 53 | November 13, 2023 4:10 AM |
It's where that slut Brooke Logan is from. .. What more proof do you need?
by Anonymous | reply 54 | November 13, 2023 4:13 AM |
New Jersey is not the New Jersey of the east coast.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | November 13, 2023 4:50 AM |
It's awful. It's blocked off from the ocean breezes, so it's always hotter than hell.
It's one big paved over plain of track homes.
Yeah, there's some wealth there. So?
I'm fine living by the beach and checking out Hollywood when I wanna club.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | November 13, 2023 5:17 AM |
The Los Angeles Times did an extensive neighborhood mapping project several years back, and this is the San Fernando Valley:
by Anonymous | reply 57 | November 13, 2023 5:34 AM |
Glendale is part of what's called "The Verdugos."
by Anonymous | reply 58 | November 13, 2023 5:35 AM |
The valley as the New Jersey of Los Angeles.
Hahhahhahahhahahhaha
by Anonymous | reply 59 | November 13, 2023 7:12 AM |
L.A. Times column from last year during the mayor's race on how The Valley has changed.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | November 13, 2023 8:10 PM |
Used to be - the valley was where you could find cheap rent Vs "Over the Hill" Not so sure nowadays. My first apartment in Van Nuys was...$230 in Van Nuys - which was typical for that area. In Hollywood it would be twice that
by Anonymous | reply 61 | November 13, 2023 8:54 PM |
When and how many rooms R61?
by Anonymous | reply 62 | November 13, 2023 8:59 PM |
late 70s early 80s 1 BR and FURNISHED
by Anonymous | reply 63 | November 13, 2023 9:05 PM |
[quote]My first apartment in Van Nuys was...$230 in Van Nuys
Could be worse. Could be Reseda.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | November 13, 2023 9:14 PM |
I live in Burbank and I love it. It's expensive, but having gone to UCLA, I had my fair share of shit "over the hill." I would rather live here than in Santa Monica or Hollywood or Palms.
I find it's cooler here in the summer than most places in the Valley. Woodland hills is often 20 degrees hotter than here in Burbank. And I often have thoughts of leaving CA altogether but the truth is, this is home and the weather is just gorgeous.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | November 13, 2023 9:19 PM |
[quote] Could be worse. Could be Reseda.
Could be worse. Could be Panorama City.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | November 13, 2023 9:20 PM |
LOTS and LOTS of strip malls
by Anonymous | reply 67 | November 13, 2023 9:24 PM |
OP - If you've been to any densely populated Post-War American suburb on a 70 degree day, you've essentially been to The Valley.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | November 13, 2023 9:30 PM |
Could be worse...could be PACOIMA!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 69 | November 13, 2023 9:31 PM |
[quote]It's one big paved over plain of track homes.
R56? The word you're looking for is "tract," as in "tract homes."
Please make a note of it.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | November 13, 2023 9:36 PM |
R62 When and how many glory holes were adjacent to the motel for rent.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | November 13, 2023 11:05 PM |
It's interesting how much things change when you drive from say North Hollywood and cross the border into Burbank. Everything seems better once you get outside of the LA limits. Cleaner, better zoning, better infrastructure, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | November 13, 2023 11:31 PM |
The no-tel motels and hookers were famously along Sepulveda Blvd. pretty much in the middle of The Valley. .. So well-known that the corresponding neighborhood with the designated name "Sepulveda" didn't like that association, so they voted to become "North Hills" -- despite the fact that there are absolutely no hills in the vicinity. .. Even funnier, more than three decades later, the cheap motels and hookers are still there.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | November 13, 2023 11:44 PM |
[quote]Could be worse. Could be Reseda.
[quote]Could be worse. Could be Panorama City.
[quote]Could be worse...could be PACOIMA!!!!
At least it's not Sylmar.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | November 13, 2023 11:59 PM |
At least it's not Lancaster.
Or Upland.
Or Ontario.
Or Monrovia.
Or Duarte.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | November 14, 2023 12:22 AM |
r72, you got that right! I lived in North Hollywood for 20 years. I moved to Burbank 2 years ago and it's SO much nicer than No Ho. Although there are still homeless people here MOST of them live in their cars in the library parking lot. In NO HO it was RV's lining the streets and homeless camps under the off ramps.
I will say though, in my 20 years in No Ho, I had to park on the street and the only thing that ever got stolen from me was my spare tire on the back of my jeep. I've been here in Burbank 2 years now and I've had my bike lights stolen off my bike when it's been locked up inside my parking garage for my apartment TWICE already. I suspect some of the homeless folks wander into the garage and take them but it could be another resident for all I know.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | November 14, 2023 4:25 AM |
that song always baffles me r6. There actually isn't a freeway running thru Reseda. (Tarzana, Encino, Van Nuys yes but not Reseda.)
by Anonymous | reply 77 | November 14, 2023 5:06 AM |
Madonna lives in the valley.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | November 14, 2023 5:07 AM |
R78 If you're talking about that place of Madonna's in Hidden Hills, she had it on the market for more than a year, and she was finally able to off-load it this past June. Hidden Hills is a private little enclave that occupies a corner of the Santa Monica Mountain communities, which aren't considered part of The Valley.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | November 14, 2023 6:10 AM |
Hidden Hills is right in the middle of Woodland Hills.
Isn't that the valley?
by Anonymous | reply 80 | November 14, 2023 7:04 AM |
Hidden Hills is the most western edge of the SFV....just west of Woodland Hills, north of the 101 & Calabasas.... as one enters into the Conejo Pass to Agoura Hills/Agoura/Thousand Oaks. It's technically the Valley...but they won't admit it. They think of it as Malibu North...because it's gated.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | November 14, 2023 8:08 AM |
I meant to say, it's *basically* the Valley, not technically -- because the LA times says it isn't "technically" the Valley. It's splitting hairs/falls into a gray area. (that is brown, ha)
by Anonymous | reply 82 | November 14, 2023 8:18 AM |
Geographically, HIdden Hills is in what's called the Simi Hills, just like Bell Canyon to the north. You can see this more clearly on topographic maps.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | November 14, 2023 8:37 AM |
Aren’t there a bunch of horsies in Hidden Hills?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | November 14, 2023 8:52 AM |
Very private and gated Hidden Hills became it's only little city back in 1961. Only about 2000 people live there. And yeah, there might be just as many horses.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | November 14, 2023 8:06 PM |
Lived in the Valley for 30 years. Studio City and Valley Village. When I had to start stepping over homeless to walk the dog or go to Gelson's I knew it was time to bail. It was nice while it lasted.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | November 14, 2023 8:14 PM |
The Valley is to LA what Long Island is to NYC. Orange County is to LA what New Jersey is to NYC.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | November 14, 2023 8:48 PM |
Actually r87 I'd reverse that. Long Island like Orange County is more repug than Jersey.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | November 14, 2023 9:00 PM |
These days, there might be more more of New Jersey in San Bernardino County.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | November 14, 2023 9:12 PM |
Hidden Hills, a REAL city, not just a community. The original lots were one acre or more. Very homey. Very quiet. Very family oriented. The big lots meant stables, horses, riding rings, etc. Pot luck dinners. Very Mayberry feeling. And then the tear downs started followed by the McMansions. Tennis courts. Huge pools. Vineyards (!). And then the Kardashians started and the rest is history. Due to private roads and gates the privacy is still mostly there but the homes and cozy feeling is long gone.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | November 15, 2023 12:51 AM |
I was last in Hidden Hills about five years ago. It’s such a cool little area. Too bad about the teardowns. You would think they would have strict rules for the community.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | November 15, 2023 12:54 AM |
What constitutes North Hollywood?
by Anonymous | reply 92 | November 15, 2023 2:02 AM |
[quote]What constitutes North Hollywood?
North Hollywood is bordered on the north by Sun Valley and on the northeast and east by Burbank. It's bordered by Toluca Lake and Studio City on the south and Valley Village and Valley Glen on the west..
by Anonymous | reply 93 | November 15, 2023 2:16 AM |
Los Angeles geography is so confusing, I’m wondering, is it really true (as I’ve heard) that even many people who live there find it as confusing as other people do?
by Anonymous | reply 94 | November 15, 2023 2:56 AM |
It's not very confusing, outside of the mountains, most of it is laid out as a grid. It's just sprawling.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | November 15, 2023 3:08 AM |
I don’t find Boston, New York, or San Francisco confusing at all but I find LA very confusing. The canyons, the hills, the passes, the various valleys. How close or distant things are to each other.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | November 15, 2023 3:13 AM |
(And the seemingly hundreds of neighborhoods)
by Anonymous | reply 97 | November 15, 2023 3:14 AM |
Toluca Lake is actually part of North Hollywood.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | November 15, 2023 3:22 AM |
I think it's "North Hollywood" that is so confusing to many people -- outsiders, especially. People expect it to be immediately adjacent to Hollywood (like West Hollywood) which, of course, it isn't. (the Santa Monica Mountains separate them). That part of the San Fernando Valley was known first as "Toluca", and then as "Lankershim" (after real estate developer, JB Lankershim). In the mid-late 1920s, the name was changed to "North Hollywood", in order to capitalize on the glitz & glamour of Hollywood, and make it more appealing to people moving here from elsewhere in the country.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | November 15, 2023 3:42 AM |
r92, North Hollywood starts just east of the 170 from Victory BLVD down to the 101 freeway. It ends around Hollywood Way where it transitions into Burbank.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | November 15, 2023 4:07 AM |
[quote]Toluca Lake is actually part of North Hollywood.
Isn't part of Toluca Lake in Burbank?
by Anonymous | reply 101 | November 15, 2023 4:25 AM |
R101 Burbank is an incorporated city with its own police department, while Toluca Lake and North Hollywood are both under LAPD jurisdiction, and are served by the same LAPD division.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | November 15, 2023 5:25 AM |
[quote]The Toluca Lake Chamber of Commerce website states that the district is not only a neighborhood in Los Angeles but that it "spills over into Burbank" and "Political entities and others, such as the Greater Toluca Lake Neighborhood Council each draw their own boundaries to suit specific needs. For example, the Toluca Lake Chamber of Commerce serves the entire community in Burbank and Los Angeles, while the City of Los Angeles considers its neighborhood called Toluca Lake to be entirely within its city boundaries"
by Anonymous | reply 103 | November 15, 2023 5:58 AM |
“Spills over?” I remember there being a distinct border between Burbank and Toluca Lake. Basically, Toluca Lake is where the potholes start.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | November 15, 2023 6:10 AM |
[quote] The word you're looking for is "tract," as in "tract homes."
r70 Yes Virginia, I caught the typo. We need an edit option. Or maybe I was talking about railroad tracks.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | November 15, 2023 6:30 AM |
Linda Granger’s second husband was arrested for performing oral sex on a baggage handler in Burbank Airport.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | November 15, 2023 6:58 AM |
R98 North Hollywood and Toluca Lake are two different neighborhoods that just border each other. Click on each neighborhood to see its borders.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | November 15, 2023 8:00 AM |
R107 For example, zip code 91602 is both North Hollywood and Toluca Lake. It’s very confusing.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | November 15, 2023 8:11 AM |
I grew up in Glendale in the ‘50s and ‘60s and always considered it “The Valley.” My grandmother lived in Pasadena, but it wasn’t considered a good area when I was a child. Glendale was much nicer. Still is.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | November 15, 2023 8:18 AM |
Toluca Lake is a tiny enclave of wealthy people who don’t want to be associated with North Hollywood, although North Hollywood’s surge of vagrants and drug addicts have no doubt drifted into their posh cul-de-sacs. Their Nextdoor postings are probably very entertaining.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | November 15, 2023 8:24 AM |
[quote](And the seemingly hundreds of neighborhoods)
R97, I don't think Los Angeles has more neighborhoods than New York. Have you ever looked at a map of Queens? The difference is that NY is divided up into boroughs, so the neighborhoods can be organized in your head that way. LA is much larger than the other cities you named - larger than any other American city except New York - so naturally it has more neighborhoods.
What is a little different from older cities is that LA's borders are extremely irregular because of years of annexations and expansions throughout the 20th century. Other newer cities, like Phoenix and Houston, are similar.
The other thing is that a lot of LA (some people say most of LA) is suburban. A more apt comparison than any single city would be an entire metropolitan area, including the sprawling suburbs. Unless you're familiar with the area, most suburban sprawl is confusing.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | November 15, 2023 8:25 AM |
Inglewood, up to no good!
by Anonymous | reply 112 | November 15, 2023 12:18 PM |
Pasadena has everything from suburban-ish slums to super rich, so it has plenty of "good areas", including the revivals of its commercial areas.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | November 15, 2023 3:41 PM |
The person who posted that Pasadena didn't have "nice areas" was probably my daughter Nancy. She's hard to love, but I try, God knows, I try.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | November 15, 2023 7:02 PM |
[quote] Los Angeles geography is so confusing, I’m wondering, is it really true (as I’ve heard) that even many people who live there find it as confusing as other people do?
We don't. The mountains, which are visible from every neighborhood, always let you know where you are.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | November 15, 2023 8:03 PM |
R116 Agreed. Native here, and I'm never confused, but I do find the skits from The Californians on SNL where they're always inserting freeway and street directions on how to get some place around Los Angeles totally hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | November 15, 2023 8:17 PM |
“The Californians” is, like, totally outdated now.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | November 15, 2023 8:30 PM |
The San Fernando Valley: geographic area including the incorporated cities Burbank, Glendale, Calabasas and Hidden Hills.
The Valley: The areas of the San Fernando Valley that are not incorporated, with shitty public schools run by the LAUSD and policed by the overburdened LAPD.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | November 15, 2023 9:05 PM |
As a non-native I was confusing North Hollywood with what might be called the northern part of Hollywood - like Beachwood canyon. For ex. Wikipedia even says: Beachwood Canyon is a community in the Hollywood Hills, in the northern portion of Hollywood in Los Angeles, California.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | November 16, 2023 6:40 AM |
Posts R99 to R104 prove my point about LA geography being confusing. Granted, not to people who live there, I guess. :/
by Anonymous | reply 123 | November 16, 2023 7:13 AM |
Los Angeles County includes 88 cities, and over 400 neighborhoods.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | November 16, 2023 8:42 AM |
R123: You're just stupid. Outside of the mountains (a small % of the area of greater LA), the LA area has a grid pattern of roads and freeways. It's very easy to figure things out. These small area problems suggest, you have no idea how to look at a "big picture".
by Anonymous | reply 125 | November 16, 2023 2:30 PM |
Unless you have to go to LAX, just stay South of the 101 and North of the 10. And actually, it's easier to fly out of Burbank.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | November 16, 2023 7:25 PM |
L.A. proved too much for the man.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | November 16, 2023 7:58 PM |
If you're driving in the LA area, sooner or later you'll run into a freeway, the ocean, or a mountain.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | November 16, 2023 7:59 PM |
So is he leaving?
by Anonymous | reply 129 | November 16, 2023 8:00 PM |
What train is he taking?
by Anonymous | reply 130 | November 16, 2023 8:40 PM |
I remember back when North Hollywood was nice clean families and kids playing in the street. Ice cream trucks and cub scouts, instead of taco trucks, if you know what I mean.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | November 16, 2023 8:56 PM |
R127 Love you. Fuck me senseless.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | November 16, 2023 9:20 PM |
r131, North Hollywood was always a gang central area. They cleaned it up a bit in the 90's but they are trying to hard with the "arts district." It's a shit hole.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | November 16, 2023 9:49 PM |
The moniker "No Ho" is rather funny.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | November 16, 2023 9:54 PM |
North Hollywood is full of burrito stands, gangs and horny fags in dumpy apartments. Drive through it and your Grindr starts to ping like crazy.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | November 16, 2023 11:25 PM |
[quote]We don't. The mountains, which are visible from every neighborhood, always let you know where you are
Yessss, exactly, R116! It's the *mountains* that ground native Angelenos! I could be dropped, blindfolded, into almost any neighborhood in the city (SFV, SGV, Westside)....and just looking around at the mountains/hills (not street-signs or buildings), I'd know where I am, generally speaking.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | November 17, 2023 5:57 AM |
Think of LA generally as a flat coastal plain with large mountains “dropped” around it. It’s not inherently hilly like the Bay Area. When people speak of knowing where they are by looking at mountains, they’re right on the money.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | November 17, 2023 8:41 AM |
I lift mine eyes to the mountains, whence cometh my help.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | November 17, 2023 11:33 AM |
Ewww, as if!
by Anonymous | reply 139 | November 17, 2023 5:40 PM |
OP's first mistake was not capitalizing the letter 'V'.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | November 18, 2023 7:14 AM |