Home Remodeling in Studio City, California

The Los Angeles River and Tujunga Wash flow through Studio City. The two concrete-lined channels unite just west of Colfax Avenue and north of Ventura Boulevard adjacent to Radford Studio Center.

Originally known as Laurelwood, the area that Studio City occupies was formerly share of Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando. Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando was a 116,858-acre (472.91 km) Mexican land take over in present-day Los Angeles County, California, granted in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Eulogio F. de Celis. This estate changed hands several epoch during the late 19th century, and eventually passed into the ownership of James Boon Lankershim (1850–1931) and eight additional developers, who organized the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company. In 1899, however, the Place lost most water rights to Los Angeles, so subdivision and sale of land for crop growing became untenable.

Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct began in 1908, and water reached the San Fernando Valley in November 1913. Real house boomed, and a syndicate led by Harry Chandler, business executive of the Los Angeles Times, with Hobart Johnstone Whitley, Isaac Van Nuys, and James Boon Lankershim acquired the surviving 47,500 acres (192 km) of the southern half of the former Mission lands—everything west of the Lankershim town limits and south of present-day Roscoe Boulevard excepting the Rancho Encino. Whitley platted the area of present-day Studio City from portions of the existing town of Lankershim, as skillfully as the eastern part of the supplementary acquisition.

In 1927, Mack Sennett began building a further studio on 20 acres (81,000 m) donated by the home developer. The area around the studio was named Studio City.

In 1955, Studio City’s Station 78 became the first racially integrated station in the Los Angeles City Fire Department.