Northridge is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the

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. The community is home to California State University, Northridge, and the

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. Originally named Zelzah by settlers in 1908, the community was renamed North Los Angeles in 1929 but the appellation sometimes caused confusion between North Hollywood and Los Angeles. In 1938, civic leader Carl S. Dentzel decided to rename the community to Northridge Village, which morphed into modern-day Northridge. The Northridge area can trace its history back to the

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people and later to Spanish explorers. It was sold by the Mexican governor

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to Eulogio de Celis, whose heirs divided it for resale.

Population

The 2000 U.S. census counted 57,561 residents in the Northridge neighborhood—or , among the lowest

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for the city. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 61,993. In 2000 the median age for residents was 32, about average for city and county neighborhoods; the percentage of residents aged 19 to 34 was among the county's highest."Northridge"
Mapping L.A., ''Los Angeles Times'' The neighborhood was considered "highly diverse" ethnically within Los Angeles, with a high percentage of Asian people for the county. The breakdown was

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, 49.5%;

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, 26.1%; Asians, 14.5%;

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, 5.4%; and others, 4.6%. Mexico (24.7%) and the Philippines (9.8%) were the most common places of birth for the 31.8% of the residents who were born abroad—an average figure for Los Angeles. The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $67,906, considered high for the city. Renters occupied 46.4% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 53.6%. The average household size of 2.7 people was considered average for Los Angeles. In 2000 there were 3,803 military veterans, or 8.5% of the population, a high percentage compared to the rest of the city.

Geography

Map of Northridge neighborhood, Los Angeles, California

Northridge touches

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and Granada Hills on the north, North Hills on the east, Van Nuys on the southeast, Lake Balboa and Reseda on the south and Winnetka and Chatsworth on the west.Colored map, Mapping L.A., ''Los Angeles Times (PDF)
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History

Indigenous peoples

The area now called Northridge was first inhabited about 2,000 years ago by the Native American

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(or Tongva) people. Among their tribal villages Totonga was nearby Northridge. The Gabrielino-Tongva people, who lived in dome-shaped houses, are sometimes referred to as the "people of the earth". They spoke a

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Uto-Aztecan (Shoshonean) language. Their

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are very hard to find nowadays, and those not public, nor protected, many destroyed by the development of Greater Los Angeles; there are no public rock art sites in Los Angeles County. A replica can be seen at The Southwest Museum and there are archeological exhibits at Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History,

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, Louis Robidoux Nature Center and El Dorado Nature Center.

Mexican land grant

In the late 1840s, Mexican Governor

broke with the tradition of "granting" land and, instead, sold it, without the usual area limitations, to Eulogio de Celis, a native of Spain. By 1850, de Celis was in the Los Angeles census as an agriculturist, 42 years old, and the owner of real estate worth $20,000.

Land division

A few years later, the land was split up. The heirs of Eulogio de Celis sold the northernly half - - to Senator George K. Porter, who had called it the "Valley of the Cumberland" and Senator Charles Maclay, who exclaimed: "This is the Garden of Eden." Porter was interested in ranching; Maclay in subdivision and colonization. Francis Marion ("Bud") Wright, an Iowa farm boy who migrated to California as a young man, became a ranch hand for Senator Porter and later co-developer of the Hawk Ranch, which is now Northridge land.

Education

Thirty-four percent of Northridge residents aged 25 and older had earned a

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by 2000, an average percentage for the city but high for the county. The percentages of the same-age residents with a

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and a

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or higher were high for the county.

Primary and secondary schools

In 1962, Nobel Junior High School in Northridge became the first air-conditioned school in the Los Angeles school district. In 1982 the board considered closing Prairie Street Elementary School in Northridge.Faris, Gerald.
Closing of 8 Schools Recommended, One Near Airport
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''. April 17, 1983. South Bay SB2. Retrieved on January 16, 2012. It was located on the California State University, Northridge campus, and that university used Prairie as a laboratory school.Savage, David G.
L.A. Board to Close 5 More Schools
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''. February 7, 1984. Part II C2. Retrieved on January 16, 2012. In April 1983 an advisory committee of the LAUSD recommended closing eight LAUSD schools, including Prairie Street School. In August 1983 the board publicly considered closing Prairie, which had 280 students at the time. In 1984 the board voted to close the Prairie Street School. In 1985 some parents were trying to have Prairie Street School re-opened. Secondary and lower-grade schools within the Northridge boundaries are:

Public

* Andasol Avenue Elementary School, 10126 Encino Avenue *

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Middle School, 9950 Tampa Avenue * Topeka Drive Elementary School, 9815 Topeka Drive * Balboa Gifted / High Ability Magnet Elementary School, alternative, 17020 Labrador Street *

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, 9601 Zelzah Avenue * Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School, 9351 Paso Robles Avenue * Dearborn Street Elementary School, 9240 Wish Avenue * Calahan Street Elementary School, 18722 Knapp Street * Napa Street Elementary School, 19010 Napa Street * Northridge Middle School, 17960 Chase Street * Parthenia Street Elementary School, 16825 Napa Street

Private

* Casa Montessori, 17633 Lassen Street *

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, 18437 Superior Street * Highland Hall Waldorf School, K-12, 17100 Superior Street * Art of Learning Academy, 9535 Alden Avenue *

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School, elementary, 9501 Balboa Boulevard * First Presbyterian Church of Granada Hill, elementary, 10400 Zelzah Avenue * Cornerstone Christian Academy, 11031 Yolanda Avenue * East Valley Academy, K-12, 20212 Londelius Street * Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School, Elementary and Middle, 17701 Devonshire Street

Colleges

California State University, Northridge, or CSUN, part of the

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system, offers bachelor's and master's degrees in a number of disciplines. The school is a major producer of K12 teachers in the region and the nation as a whole. CSUN also has engineering, business, and film programs. CSUN had its beginnings as a college on Nordhoff Street and Etiwanda Avenue and officially opened in 1956 as "San Fernando Valley Campus of Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences." Two years later it separated from its parent and became "San Fernando Valley State College." By the early 1970s, however, this institution became known as "California State University, Northridge." By fall of 2016, CSUN had reached enrollment of almost 40,000 students. A 2004 study revealed that CSUN is a major contributor to the local economy: between $663 million and $686 million annually. Additionally, CSUN employs 5,800 people directly through the university and adds another 5,700 to 6,000 jobs into the local economy.

Entertainment

Motion pictures and television

Silent star Janet Gaynor and her costume-designer husband Adrian were the first owners of a spacious estate in Northridge, which was later sold to Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor. Later, actor

Jack Oakie Jack Oakie (born Lewis Delaney Offield; November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television. He portrayed Napaloni in Chaplin's ''The Great Dictator'' (194 ...

owned the property and lived on it. The Oakie house was set for the wrecking ball, but in 2010 the city agreed to buy the Tudor-style stone landmark and its ranch estate. Marion Marx, wife of

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, and Barbara Stanwyck started Marwyck Ranch as a horse breeding farm. The original house and a small portion of the ranch still exist, and is managed by the city as Oakridge Estate Park. Northridge was known as the "Horse Capital of the West," with regular Sunday horse shows, annual stampedes, and country fairs.

Devonshire Downs

In the late 1960s,

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was the site of two major rock music festivals. The little-known two-day 1967 ''Fantasy Faire and Magic Music Festival'' (at "Devonshire Meadows") featured

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, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish,

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Canned Heat Canned Heat is an American band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1965. The group is noted for its efforts to promote interest in blues music and its original artists and rock music. It was founded by two blues enthusiasts Alan Wilson and Bob ...

Iron Butterfly Iron Butterfly is an American rock band formed in San Diego, California, in 1966. They are best known for the 1968 hit " In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", providing a dramatic sound that led the way towards the development of hard rock and heavy metal musi ...

and several other bands. The better-known but confusingly named 1969 ''

Newport Pop Festival The Newport Pop Festival, held in Costa Mesa, California, on August 3–4, 1968, was the first music concert ever to have more than 100,000 paid attendees. Its sequel, billed as Newport 69, was held in Northridge, California, on June 20–22, 196 ...

'' was a massive three-day event that featured Jimi Hendrix and many other top acts. It took place in June and was briefly the largest music festival ever held before losing that distinction to

Woodstock Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, United States, southwest of the town of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aq ...

the following August. Like its famous successor, it had problems with large numbers of gate-crashers, and some young attendees far from home camped out nearby in sleeping bags. Unlike Woodstock, "nearby" included parts of suburban Northridge, where most of the local residents were horrified to find their neighborhoods invaded by "hippies". A ban on rock music festivals soon followed.

Earthquakes

The

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was named for Northridge based on early estimates of the location of the quake's

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; however, further refinements showed it to be technically in neighboring Reseda. The earthquake, which occurred on a blind thrust fault, was one of the strongest ground motions ever recorded in North America. Freeways collapsed, and many buildings suffered irreparable damages. Vertical and horizontal accelerations lifted structures off their foundations. During the 1994 quake, the Northridge Hospital Medical Center remained open and treated more than 1,000 patients who came to the facility during the first few days after the magnitude 6.7 quake. This was the second time in 23 years that the area had been affected by a strong earthquake. On February 9, 1971 the San Fernando earthquake (also known as the Sylmar earthquake) struck, having a magnitude of 6.5.

Points of interest

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, famous deli in Northridge * CSUN Botanic Garden * California State University, Northridge (CSUN) * Donald E. Bianchi Planetarium at CSUN *

, Regional shopping mall. *

Northridge Hospital Medical Center Northridge Hospital Medical Center is a hospital in the Northridge district of Los Angeles, California, US. It is currently operated by Dignity Health. History The hospital was founded in 1955 by Dr. Frederick Gruneck as a 49-bed hospital wi ...

* Studio 606 West, the recording studio of rock band Foo Fighters * U.S. Metric Association is based in Northridge.

Hospital

Northridge Hospital Medical Center consists of a 411-bed hospital and serves 2 million residents of the Valley. The hospital is one of only two facilities in the Valley certified as a trauma center for treating life-threatening injuries.

Parks, recreation and sports

The Northridge Recreation Center, located at 18300 Lemarsh St., has an indoor gymnasium, without weights, which may also be used as an auditorium. Its capacity is 400. The park also has barbecue pits, a lighted baseball diamond, lighted indoor basketball courts, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a community room, picnic tables, a lighted soccer field, and lighted tennis courts.Northridge Recreation Center
. City of Los Angeles. Retrieved on March 23, 2010. The Northridge Pool, on the recreation center grounds, is an outdoor heated seasonal pool. Dearborn Park, located at 17141 Nordhoff St., is an unstaffed, unlocked park has lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, picnic tables, and lighted tennis courts. Vanalden Park, located at 8956 Vanalden Ave., is an unstaffed pocket park, has a horseshoe pit, a jogging path, and picnic tables.

Government and infrastructure

Local government

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Station 70 (Northridge) and Station 103 (Northridge/CSUN) serve the community. City of Los Angeles neighborhood councils that cover Northridge: * Northridge East Neighborhood Council * Northridge West Neighborhood Council * Northridge South Neighborhood Council The

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operates two police stations that serve Northridge: * Devonshire Community Police Station serves residents north of Roscoe Boulevard. * West Valley Community Police Station serves residents south of Roscoe Boulevard.

County, state, and federal representation

The

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operates the Pacoima Health Center in

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, serving Northridge. The

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Northridge Post Office is located at 9534 Reseda Boulevard. * Northridge is represented in the

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by California's Senators

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and

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. * In the

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, Northridge is located within California's 30th congressional district represented by

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. * In the State Assembly, Northridge is located within

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represented by

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. * In the California State Senate, Northridge is split between California's 18th State Senate district represented by Democrat Robert Hertzberg, and

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represented by Democrat Henry Stern. * Northridge is located within the City of Los Angeles’ 12th City Council District represented by Councilmember

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Notable people

* Brooke Abel, Olympic synchronized swimmer * Ariane Andrew, professional wrestler *

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, producer and screenwriter *

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, singer *

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, professional football *

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, professional basketball *

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, professional basketball * Jim Davis, actor * Bobbi Fiedler, Congress member *

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, figure skater at the 1980 Winter Olympics *

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, film and television producer *

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, actor * Mike Houghton, professional football *

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, Co-founder of

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, professional baseball * Antonia Lofaso, celebrity chef * Casey Matthews, professional football * Kyle, entertainer * Clay Matthews, professional football player * John H. Meier, business adviser to Howard Hughes *

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, singer, guitarist and composer * Bob Skube, professional baseball * Malcolm Smith, professional football *

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, cinematographer * Brian Vranesh, professional golfer * Duffy Waldorf, professional golfer *

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, Major League Baseball *

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, Major League Baseball * Danny Worth, professional baseball

References

External links

North Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce

Northridge East Neighborhood Council

Northridge West Neighborhood Council

Northridge South Neighborhood Council

DONE:Neighborhood Council Database

Comments about living in Northridge

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