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,
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, located in the
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. The neighborhood contains the
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, the El Portal Theatre, several art galleries, and the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences. The North Hollywood Metro Rail station is one of the few subway-accessible Metro Rail stations in Los Angeles. 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.


History


Before annexation

North Hollywood was once part of the vast landholdings of the
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, 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
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. The leading investor was
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, 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,
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and
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, moved to the San Fernando Valley and took over management of the property. Van Nuys thought the property could profitably grow wheat using the
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technique developed on the
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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.Link 1991, p.27 In October 1887, J.B. Lankershim and eight other developers organized the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company, purchasing north of the Cahuenga Pass from the Lankershim Farming and Milling Company.Link 1991, p. 31 Lankershim established a townsite which the residents named Toluca along the old road from
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to
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. 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
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along the
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rather than surface irrigation.Jorgenson 1982, p. 82 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. 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.Bearchell and Fried 1988, p. 124 When the
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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. 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.


Annexation to Los Angeles

West Lankershim (more or less today's Valley Village) agreed to be annexed to the City of Los Angeles in 1919. Lankershim proper joined in 1923. 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". The result was a massive development of housing which transformed the area into a suburban development of Los Angeles. In the late 1940s and 1950s the area saw the first department-store-anchored, auto-oriented shopping center in the Valley:
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, covering both a development at Laurel Canyon at Victory boulevards but also a loose collection of other retail stores south along Laurel Canyon to Oxnard, including a branch of the
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, the second-largest suburban department store branch in the U.S. at the time. In the mid-1950s Valley Plaza claimed to be the largest shopping center on the
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and the third-largest in the country. The May Co. at the south end of the Valley Plaza shopping district built its own attached, enclosed mall,
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, opening in 1968.Alternate Link
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The last department of Valley Plaza's anchors,
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, closed in 2019 as department store-anchored shopping centers lost favor. As of 2020, much of the Valley Plaza retail space is either empty, portion is now a middle school, and the Laurel Plaza site is under construction to become NOHO West, a
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including retail. Lankershim Blvd. around Magnolia Blvd. was the heart of the town of Lankershim and of North Hollywood and until the mid-1950s boasted the largest concentration of retail stores, banks, restaurants, and entertainment. In 1953, for example, the shopping strip included three full-line department stores: J.C. Penney at 5261 Lankershim, Yeakel & Goss department store at 5272, and the upscale single-location Rathbun's department store at nos. 5307–15. There were also branches of the large Harris & Frank clothing chain at 5236 Lankershim,
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at 5356. Nearby
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shopping center, designed for accessibility by car with plenty of free parking, opened in 1951 and kept growing until by 1956 it claimed to be the third-largest shopping center in the country. It was difficult for the Lankershim retail district to compete and by 1980, most stores had closed including Rathbun's. By the late 1950s, many of the original owners were aging, and their children were moving to other areas. School integration in the subsequent years,
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, 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 The North Hollywood shootout was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in the North Hollywood district of Los Ange ...
occurred in 1997, leaving 12
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officers and eight civilians injured and the two armed robbers dead.


21st century

The opening of North Hollywood station in 2000, establishment and success of the
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in the old "downtown", and repurposing of disused lots such as
Laurel Plaza NoHo West is a mixed-use complex in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. Developed on the of the former Laurel Plaza regional shopping mall, the development includes residential units, commercial offices and pedestrian-oriented shops and restaurants. ...
into NOHO West, has revitalized the heart of North Hollywood. Since 2000, the community has been developing and undergoing many changes, thanks in large part to the formation of the 743-acre North Hollywood Development District and the subsequent NoHo Commons projects. In 2015, Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood was part of the first San Fernando Valley
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, an event sponsored by the
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in which major roads are temporarily closed to motorized vehicle traffic and used for recreational
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.


Geography

North Hollywood is bordered on the north by Sun Valley and on the northeast and east by Burbank.
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borders North Hollywood on the southeast and south, and
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abuts it on the southwest. It is bordered by
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and
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on the west. North Hollywood is not bordered by the neighborhood of
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, as North Hollywood is approximately north of Hollywood. North Hollywood has a hot summer
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(
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Csa).


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
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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. The neighborhood was considered "moderately diverse" ethnically within Los Angeles. The breakdown was 57.7%
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, 27%
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, 5.7%
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, 5.6%
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, and 4% from other groups. Foreign-born residents made up 46.4% of residents, a high percentage for Los Angeles; Mexico (43.2%) and El Salvador (16%) were the most common places of birth for this portion of the population. The percentages of never-married men and never-married women were among the county's highest. 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%.


Arts and culture


Attractions

The
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, and
Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 10621 Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood and Burbank, California. The cemetery has an entrance called the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation that is the final resting place for aviation ...
, are located in North Hollywood.


Parks and recreation

The North Hollywood Recreation Center is mostly in North Hollywood, with a portion in
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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. 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. 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.


Education

Eighteen percent of North Hollywood residents aged 25 and older had earned a
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by 2000, an average figure for both the city and the county. The percentage of the same-age residents with less than a
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was high for the county. Schools within the North Hollywood boundaries are:


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 North Hollywood High School (NHHS) is a public high school in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is located in the San Fernando Valley and enrolls approximately 2,500 students. Several neighborhoods, inc ...
, 5231 Colfax Avenue * East Valley High School, 5525 Vineland Avenue * The Science Academy STEM Magnet (7 year college preparatory), 5525 Vineland Avenue * North Hollywood Adult Learning Center, LAUSD Adult Education, 10952 Whipple Street


Private

* Penny Lane, a center for children who were abused by their family members and bullies, in existence since 2013. NOTE: This was the former site of the Dubnoff Center for Child Development, K–12, 10526 Dubnoff Way. The school's main building was designed in 1965 by
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in association with Flores, Gelman and Green, completed in 1968. Penny Lane bought out the Dubnoff Center in 2013 due to the Dubnoff Center losing money and facing bankruptcy and liquidation issues. * 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
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(WELS) * St. Patrick Elementary School, 10626 Erwin Street * 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


Infrastructure


Transportation

The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission 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 in 1990. The decision followed the
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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 Red Line subway in its first weekend in operation. The station is the starting point for the B Line of the Metro subway, which cost $4.5 billion to build. Instead of a further B Line extension further into the Valley, Metro built the Metro G Line
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. Its terminus is located across the
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from the
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. This expanded the station area into a
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, and many
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and
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es now stop at the station. Proposals have been made to extend the B Line northeasterly to Bob Hope Airport in Burbank and the Downtown Burbank Metrolink station in downtown Burbank, or to extend it in a northwesterly direction along Lankershim Boulevard and eventually to Sylmar. Neither project is currently funded nor is included in Metro's Long Term Transportation Plan. The North Hollywood-Pasadena Transit Corridor was approved by the Metro board April 28, 2022, and is expected to be completed by 2024. it will provided faster bus service to Glendale and Pasadena.


Notable people

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Bibliography

* Bearchell, Charles, and Larry D. Fried, ''The San Fernando Valley Then and Now'', Windsor Publications, 1988, * Coscia, David, ''Pacific Electric and the Growth of the San Fernando Valley'', Shade Tree Books, 2011, * Jorgensen, Lawrence C., ''The San Fernando Valley Past and Present'', Pacific Rim Research, 1982, * Link, Tom: ''Universal City – North Hollywood, a Centenniel Portrait'', Windsor Publications, 1991, * Mullaly, Larry, and Bruce Petty, ''The Southern Pacific in Los Angeles 1873–1996'', Golden West Books/Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation, 2002, * Roderick, Kevin, ''The San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb'', Los Angeles Times Books, 2001,


External links

* ''Los Angeles Times'', Real Estate section, Neighborly Advice column:
North Hollywood: NoHo finds its mojo in a colorful, artsy sort of way
(July 27, 2003) {{Authority control 1887 establishments in California Communities in the San Fernando Valley Neighborhoods in Los Angeles Populated places established in 1887