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[oldshowbiz]

Chinese Laundry on Lankershim Blvd

[d-beatradio]

Blow up your TV.

[vannuysblvd]

The Weddington Brothers General Store, 1893

[oldshowbiz]

Phyllis Diller at the Lazy X

[oldshowbiz]

Linda Ronstadt at the Palomino

[vannuysblvd]

Hammond Davis family had the first tennis court in the San Fernando Valley at Davis Ranch, North Hollywood. This ranch was located at what today would be the northeast corner of Laurel Canyon and Riverside Drive and encompassed 40 acres. The Davis family came from England in 1895 and settled in Lankershim and started playing tennis. People from England often came to visit, arriving in a private stage coach, fully dressed in formal Victorian dress. 1895-1902? (x)

[vannuysblvd]

If you look at the right edge of this photo taken in 1965 you can see the Bob's Big Boy located at 5300 Lankershim Boulevard that later became Cugee's before it burned down in the early morning hours of January 28, 1981. Shown at center left is the Security-First National Bank of North Hollywood, situated at Lankershim Boulevard and Weddington Street. The building stands on property once occupied by the old Fred Weddington homestead; Fred Weddington was vice president of this bank in 1948. Also pictured are several other businesses, such as Florsheim Shoes, Bob's Big Boy and Kal-rosian Steaks, among others. Photograph dated July 27, 1965 and taken by Gordon Dean. Source: LAPL

[gbeckla]

North Hollywood Elegy

Lankershim Boulevard was better when Grammy took me to the Jewish Council Thrift Store to buy me an out-of-date Writer’s Market, and I looked up at her against the naked fluorescent tube lights, and wanted to write a story that would make her rich and me famous so that we wouldn’t have to shop at the Jewish Council Thrift Store again. * There was once a time — you’ll have to trust me — when Dad…

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