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Reseda is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1912, and its central event district started developing in 1915. The neighborhood was devoted to agriculture for many years. Earthquakes struck the Place in 1971 and 1994.

The neighborhood has 15 public and five private schools. The community includes public parks, a senior middle and a regional branch library.

History

Founding and growth

The area now known as Reseda was inhabited by Native Americans of the Tongva tribe who lived close to the Los Angeles River.

In 1909 the Suburban Homes Company, a syndicate led by H. J. Whitley, general governor of the Board of Control, Harry Chandler, H.G. Otis, M.H. Sherman and O.F. Brandt purchased 48,000 acres of the Farming and Milling Company for $2,500,000. Henry E. Huntington extended his Pacific Electric Railway (Red Cars) through the Valley to Owensmouth (now Canoga Park). The Suburban Home Company laid out plans for roads and the towns of Van Nuys, Reseda (Marian) and Canoga Park (Owensmouth). Los Angeles annexed the rural areas in 1915.

On estate that was originally ration of the San Fernando Mission, Reseda originated in 1912 as the town of Marian. It was named after Marian Otis Chandler, the daughter of Los Angeles Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis and wife of Harry Chandler. The post Reseda refers to the fragrant plant Reseda odorata (mignonette) which was commonly found in gardens of the get older and is native to many areas next a Mediterranean climate.

The geographic name “Reseda” was first used for a siding on a branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which ran along with the cities of Burbank and Chatsworth in the San Fernando Valley. In the 1920s, the reveal was transferred from the Southern Pacific Railroad to the Western Division of the Pacific Electric Railway “Red Cars Line”, which had expedited move forward after the building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Later, it was used as the pronounce of a End on the Pacific Electric interurban railway along Sherman Way.

Throughout this time, the town’s declare of Marian remained; then in 1921, when a Fourth Class Post Office was found to be necessary, the town’s name had to be changed. As the Zelzah Tribune reported:

Ninety-two residents convened and very to rename the town Reseda. The other post office bearing the proclaim was established on May 9, 1922, although local records acquit yourself that the publish office was dedicated on May 26. The herald office officially opened on July 1, with receipts of $1.59.

The central matter district began in 1915, at what is now the intersection of Reseda Boulevard and Sherman Way, with the construction of a hardware store. Soon a blacksmith shop and an auto fix garage were built nearby, followed by a grocery collection and a drug store. There were no sidewalks or pavement yet; most were bonus between 1918 and the to the front 1920s. On the southwest corner of Sherman Way a wooden building housed the volunteer flame department until 1922, when the present brick building was erected, as was the Reseda Bank. The wooden building housing the flare department was later moved to the southeast side of Sherman Way, where it remained until 1933. In May 1929, the city’s namesake roadway, Reseda Avenue, was renamed Reseda Boulevard by a Los Angeles City ordinance. Parts of the original 1920s and 1930s residential neighborhood remain southwest of Sherman Way and Reseda Boulevard as skillfully as in Reseda Ranch close Grover Cleveland High School.

Reseda grew slowly, with the addition market smash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression extra slowing expansion.

During the late 1920s and 1930s, the area’s reputation developed for its production of lettuce, lima beans, sugar beets, and walnuts, becoming known as one of the nation’s largest producers of lettuce by the late ‘30s. The Southern Pacific Railroad trains came going on the middle of Sherman Way to choose up freight cars of lettuce daily during the lettuce harvest season. Around that time, manufacturing roof tile, canning poultry products, and running walnuts began to emerge as doable businesses as well.

Postwar suburb

Reseda remained primarily an agricultural community, with a population of 1,805 in 1930. By 1940 the population had increased to 4,147. The mid- to late 1940s maxim a large addition in the numbers of single-family dwellings and the loss of numerous acres of agriculture, and the auxiliary of First Class Postal Service. Reseda was one of the in advance suburbs in the San Fernando Valley. The large ranches were subdivided, and the area was developed by realtors just as World War II veterans were returning home. The au fait orange groves were successively plowed under in favor of housing. At the time, most jobs were in the Los Angeles Basin and to the south, over the Santa Monica mountains.

By 1950, Reseda had on height of 16,000 residents, and in the to the front 1950s a population explosion took place, making Reseda one of the most popular and populated Valley communities. Because of this, Reseda’s merchants provided bus give support to to transport shoppers throughout the full of beans downtown Reseda areas.

In the in front 1950s, the Valley’s population reached 400,000. The average further Valley home, in 1949, cost $9,000. By 1955, that same home could go for nearly $15,000. Even at that price, though, a household allowance was about $6,000 per year, making Valley incomes over the national average. By 1960, the average puff value of a Valley house reached $18,850.

During the 1970s, the above-average residential genuine estate values and income patterns began to decline. Land and housing costs shot upward, while most incomes without help crept. By the coming on of the 1980s, the average price of a home in the Valley reached $110,000. According to a 2004 examination by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, it has tripled that of the further on 1980s.

Northridge earthquake

The 1994 Northridge earthquake struck at 4:31 a.m. on January 17 and measured 6.7 on the moment magnitude scale. It remains the unaccompanied large earthquake to originate directly below a major U.S. city in unbiased times as competently as the most damaging earthquake to strike the U.S. since the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Its epicenter was in the company of Arminta Street and Ingomar Street, just west of Reseda Boulevard.

This was the second epoch in 23 years the Place had been affected by a mighty earthquake. On February 9, 1971, the San Fernando earthquake (also known as the Sylmar earthquake) struck the Place with a magnitude of 6.5.

Geography

Reseda is flanked on the north by Northridge, on the east by Lake Balboa, on the south by Tarzana and Encino, on the southwest by Woodland Hills, and on the west by Winnetka. Its street boundaries are Roscoe Boulevard upon the north, White Oak Avenue upon the east, Victory Boulevard upon the south and Corbin Avenue upon the west.

Demographics

The 2010 U.S. census counted 74,363 residents in Reseda’s 91335 ZIP code. The median age was 35.5, and the median yearly household income was $53,842.

In 2008, the Los Angeles Times, Mapping L.A. project described Reseda as “highly diverse” ethnically within Los Angeles. The laboratory analysis of the population using the 2000 census was 43.5% Latino; 37.2% non-Hispanic white; 11.2% Asian; 4.2% black; and 3.9% other. Mexico (33.7%) and El Salvador (12.4%) were the most common birthplaces of the 43.1% of the residents who were born abroad.

In 2010, renters occupied 48.5% of the housing stock, and home or apartment-owners held 51.5%.

Government and infrastructure

Local government

Los Angeles Fire Department Station 73 (Reseda) and Station 100 (West Van Nuys/Lake Balboa) serve the community.

The Los Angeles Police Department operates the understandable West Valley Community Police Station.

County, state, and federal

Mail facilities are provided by the United States Postal Service’s branch state office at 7320 Reseda Boulevard. On October 14, 2006, the branch office was renamed the Coach John Wooden Post Office upon Wooden’s 96th birthday. Wooden lived in within reach Encino and his daughter lived in Reseda.

Education

Nineteen percent of Reseda residents 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, an average figure for both the city and the county. The proportion of residents in the aerate of a tall school diploma was tall for the county.

Schools within the Reseda boundaries are:

Public

Private

School closings

In 1982, the board considered closing Garden Grove Elementary School. In April 1983, an reproving committee of the Los Angeles Unified School District recommended closing eight schools, including Garden Grove School and Newcastle Avenue School. In August 1983, the board publicly considered closing Garden Grove, which had 176 students at the time, and Newcastle Avenue, which had 314 students. In 1984, the board voted to near the Garden Grove and Newcastle Avenue schools.

A decade after the schools closed, which occurred due to thousands of parents withdrawing their kids from the Los Angeles Unified School District in the wake of mandatory busing, they were reopened. With the advent of class-size lessening becoming the priority, many parents began returning their kids to the city’s schools, and the number of newly arrived immigrants was boosting enrollments, officials said.

Featured sites

The Reseda Country Club was a Famous concert venue during the Los Angeles punk rock and new acceptance scenes of the 1980s. At the intersection of Canby Avenue and Sherman Way, the Country Club hosted bands, including Oingo Boingo, U2, Culture Club, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and Roxy Music, from 1980 to 1982. The site began in the 1950s as one of the first Sav-On Drug stores in the San Fernando Valley, then became a nightclub, and remained a dancehall and music venue during the 1990s; it was in addition to used as a boxing venue. It forward-looking became and remains a Spanish-language Christian church.

The Reseda Theater, at 18443 Sherman Way, was built in 1948 and closed in 1988. The exterior was briefly seen at the arrival of the film Boogie Nights.

Parks and recreation

Public libraries

The West Valley Regional Branch is operated by the Los Angeles Public Library.

In popular culture

Films

A number of movies have been filmed or set in Reseda:

Music

Reseda is mentioned in numerous songs, including:

Television

Television shows filmed in Reseda include:

Sporting events

Notable people

See also

References

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