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Studio City is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, in the southeast San Fernando Valley, just west of the Cahuenga Pass. It is named after the studio lot that was normal in the Place by film producer Mack Sennett in 1927, now known as Radford Studio Center.

History

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

Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct began in 1908, and water reached the San Fernando Valley in November, 1913. Real home 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 steadfast 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 with ease as the eastern ration of the supplementary acquisition.

In 1927, Mack Sennett began building a additional studio upon 20 acres (81,000 m) donated by the house 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.

Geography

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

Demographics

The 2000 U.S. census counted 34,034 residents in the 6.31-square-mile (16.3 km) Studio City neighborhood—5,395 people per square mile, among the lowest population densities for the city but approximately average for the county. In 2008, the city estimated that the resident population had increased to 37,201.

In 2000, the median age for residents, 38, was considered out of date for city and county neighborhoods; the percent of residents age 19 and older was in the middle of the county’s highest.

The ethnic laboratory analysis was Whites, 78%; Latinos, 8.7%; Asians, 5.4%; Blacks, 3.7%; and others, 4.1%. Iran (7%) and the United Kingdom (6.7%) were the most common places of birth for the 21.1% of the residents who were born abroad—a low percentage for Los Angeles.

The median yearly household allowance in 2008 dollars was $75,657, considered high for the city. The percent of households earning $125,000 and taking place was tall for Los Angeles County. The average household size of 1.9 people was low like compared to the land of the city and the county. Renters occupied 55.9% of the housing store and house- or apartment-owners held 44.1%.

In 2000, there were 837 families headed by single parents, the rate of 11.2% being low for the city of Los Angeles. There were 2,591 veterans, 8.8% of the population, a tall figure for the city.

Arts and culture

Notable places

Library

Parks and recreation

The Studio City Recreation Center (commonly known as Beeman Park) is in a residential neighborhood on Rye Street at Beeman Avenue. It has an auditorium, barbecue pits, a lighted baseball diamond, an outdoor meting out and walking track, lighted outside basketball courts, a children’s feat area, picnic tables, unlighted tennis courts, and many programs and classes including the second-largest youth baseball program in the public parks.

Moorpark Park, an unstaffed pocket park at the corner of Moorpark Street and Laurel Canyon Boulevard, has a children’s play Place and picnic tables.

Woodbridge Park, on Elmer Avenue at Moorpark Street, on the eastern attach of Studio City has a children and toddler’s fake area.

Wilacre Park, a 128-acre natural mountain park taking into account the belittle trailhead for the Betty B Dearing hiking trail, is upon Fryman Road at Laurel Canyon Boulevard. It has a large parking lot, restrooms and a picnic area. It is share of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and is managed by the Mountains Recreation & Conservation Authority.

Fryman Canyon Park is a 122-acre plants park accessed via the Nancy Hoover Pohl Overlook upon Mulholland Drive bearing in mind the upper trailhead of the Betty B Dearing hiking trail. The park is portion of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and is managed by the Mountains Recreation & Conservation Authority.

Coldwater Canyon Park is a natural world park adjacent to Wilacre Park and Fryman Canyon Park. It contains an amphitheater and the headquarters for the conservation intervention TreePeople. It can be accessed via a parking lot close the corner of Mulholland Drive and Coldwater Canyon Avenue and via the Betty B Dearing Trail. The park is managed by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks (LA Parks). This park is not to be mortified with an unrelated park in imitation of the pronounce Coldwater Canyon Park, three miles to the south upon North Beverly Drive in the city of Beverly Hills.

In addition, Studio City has the Studio City Mini-Park, an unstaffed pocket park.

North Valleyheart Riverwalk is a linear park that abuts the Los Angeles River.

Government

The northeast part of Studio City is in City Council District 2, represented by Paul Krekorian, and the southwest section is in District 4, represented by Nithya Raman. The community is represented within the city of Los Angeles by the Studio City Neighborhood Council.

The area is represented by Los Angeles County District 3 Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, State Senator Robert Hertzberg, California Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian and U.S. Representative Brad Sherman.

Education

Almost half of Studio City residents aged 25 and older (49.4%) had earned a four-year degree by 2000, a tall percentage for both the city and the county. The percentage of those residents subsequently a master’s degree was also high for the county.

Schools

Schools within the Studio City boundaries are:

Notable people

Film and television

Music

Literature

Sports

Other

References

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