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Urban Development -- Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley

Ever since the formation of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1888, non-profit business organizations, such as the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley and the Greater Los Angeles Visitors and Convention Bureau; community-based homeowner, resident and tenant associations, and civic leaders and concerned citizens have had tremendous impact on the growth and development of the greater Los Angeles area. City and county planning departments have also worked closely with neighborhood groups to ensure the safety of individual communities. Their efforts to create a strong business climate, their campaign to deliver Owens River water to Southern California, the promotion of year-round tourism in Southern California, the development of a modern transportation network, modern residential communities, public concerns for the environment and restricted land use, and the demands for industrial freedom are the woven fabric which makes up the multi-layered landscape that defines Los Angeles.

[Note: See also San Fernando Valley History Digital Library http://digital-library.csun.edu/]

The San Fernando Valley History Digital Library brings together images and textual materials from a variety of collections held by the University Library's Special Collections & Archives as well as items loaned from a many of the areas local historical societies, community organizations and private collections. The digital library was made possible in part from funding by the Library Services Technology Act. Other community preservation and cultural recovery projects documenting the history of the Valley are made possible through the San Fernando Valley Heritage Network.

ARLETA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
[1960- ] [ACC] [Non-LC]
Papers, 1960-2000
Acc: #: 00-03
4 cubic feet [unprocessed]
In-processing (Summer 2005)
Finding Guide not available at this time.
The historical files of the Arleta Chamber of Commerce were donated to the Urban Archives Center in September 2000 by Hawley Smith, President of the chamber.
Papers include administrative records, awards, environmental and city planning reports, grant proposals, maps, minutes, newsletters, photographs, resolutions, and related documentation on the concerns of the Northeast Valley business community of Arleta. Important projects sponsored by the Arleta Chamber of Commerce represented in the collection include the Arleta Zip Code Project, City Boundary Project and Community Enhancement Project.
ASSOCIATED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
[1927 - ] [ACCSFV] [CD988 .W441 1955]
Papers, 1955-1976
Acc. #: 80-17
5.5 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
Originally named the West Valley Associated Chambers of Commerce, the Association Chambers of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley organized in 1927 as an umbrella group for the chambers of commerce of Canoga Park, Chatsworth, Northridge and Reseda. The community chambers joined together to promote a spirit of cooperation among West Valley business, real estate and civic interests, and to advance the civic, commercial and industrial welfare of the region through legislative action. Later, the association broadened its geographic scope to include the southwest communities of Tarzana, Encino, Winnetka, Granada Hills and Woodland Hills. Between 1956 and 1975 five additional chambers joined the association bringing the total to twelve.
The collection documents the growth of housing, industry and commerce in the Valley, Los Angeles' largest residential suburb. The materials consist of agendas and minutes, articles of incorporation, by-laws, correspondence, delegate rosters, newspaper clippings, newsletters, press releases, reports and resolutions.
BECK, JUDGE JULIAN
[Note: See under - Political Movements & Politicians]
BOBERG, DOROTHY
[1930- ] [DB] [CD988 .W441 1957b]
Papers, 1957-1986
Acc. #: 89-21
15.5 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
From 1959 to 1962, Boberg attended California State University, Northridge as a graduate student, majoring in education. It was during her college days that she first became a political activist by servicing as co-chairs for the San Fernando Valley Voter Registration Drive and the Committee to Secure a Fifth City Council District in the San Fernando Valley. Boberg also co-chaired the Women's Committee for a Humane Abortion Law, a group started by AAUW members, from 1964-1966. During the same period Boberg was also involved in local PTA functions and co-wrote a study on Valley Secession from the City of Los Angeles.
The next ten years found Boberg involved in many projects and organizations. She chaired the Overview Committee of Destination 90 (a city planning study) sponsored by CSUN; was on the Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Concerns, and Townscape committees and served on the local Election Board. She also volunteered in numerous political campaigns which included serving as volunteer coordinator for Barbara Klien's City Council campaign. For several years, Boberg served on the board of directors of the Northridge Civic Association and conducted studies on the Los Angeles General Plan, Granada Hills and Northridge Specific Plans. She also served as the Northridge Civic Association president from 1971-1973.
In 1971, Boberg founded the North Valley Ecology Council and the Ad Hoc Committee for Citizens Participation in Planning to implement Destination 90 recommendations. She was also an active member of the Sierra Club Nuclear Task Force and observed City Council and Department of Water and Power Commission meetings, frequently testifying on environmental issues and against plans for construction of nuclear power facilities in the state. In 1975, Boberg worked as a research associate for the group Another Mother for Peace which culminated in the report: Nuclear Facilities and Radiation Monitoring in California. In 1976, Boberg became the research director for GUARD (a Southern California environmental organization) which intervened in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings on the construction of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Stations. She also wrote a detailed study of and campaigned for California's Nuclear Safeguards Initiative (Proposition 15).
The papers include articles, booklets, correspondence, newsletter, position papers, reports, speeches, testimony and related documents covering such issues as Atomic/Nuclear Energy, energy alternatives, urban planning in Los Angeles, as well as women's issues and state/ federal politics and policies.
CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION
[1933 - ] [CCAPA] [CD988 .W441 1933c]
Papers and Planning Report, 1933-2002
Acc. #: 99-06
79 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide-Record Group 0
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide-Record Group 1
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide-Record Group 2
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide-Record Group 3
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide-Record Group 4
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide-Record Group 5
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide-Record Group 6
The American Planning Association formed through a merger between the American Institute of Planners (AIP) and the American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) in 1978. The American City Planning Institute originally dates back to 1917, renamed in the 1930s the AIP. In 1934, the ASPO was established to conduct research and to promote planning. Due to the rapid growth of membership, in both the AIP and ASPO following World War II, the organizations consolidated forming the APA.
The APA is the nation's foremost voluntary organization for planning professionals. Based in Chicago and Washington DC, the APA is a non-profit, public interest, and research organization with 30,000 practicing planners, city officials, and citizens involved with urban and rural planning issues. It has forty-six regional chapters and seventeen divisions of specialized planning interests. California was the third state chapter established, forming the California Chapter of the American Institute of Planners (CCAIP), known today as the California Chapter of the American Planning Association (CCAPA). The CCAPA consists of the Inland Empire and Los Angeles sections.
The objective of the Association is to encourage planning that will contribute to the public well being by developing communities and environments that meet the needs of people and society more effectively. The Association publishes many educational and professional reports, in addition to publishing a research report on economic development and historic preservation co-sponsored by The National Trust for Historic Preservation. The APA also holds annual conferences and produces audio conferences, manuals, and training workshops on both video and audiotapes to promote education.
The CCAPA Collection is arranged into several record groups by contributor:
  • Record Group 0: CCAPA Administrative Records
  • Record Group 1: Melville C. Branch, Jr. Donation
  • Record Group 2: Betty Croly Donation
  • Record Group 3: Duncan & Jones Donation
  • Record Group 4: Simon Eisner Donation
  • Record Group 5: William Fraley Donation
  • Record Group 6: Norman Lind Donation
Administrative records include board minutes, by-laws, the organization's strategic plan and various chapter newsletters. The remainder of the collection contains documentation of land-use planning, roads and freeways, zoning and environmental protection. The records consist of primary planning documents at state, county, and local levels. The planning reports make up the bulk of the collection, dating from 1950 to 1990, some go back as early as the 1930s. The Collection also contains a few newspaper clippings as well as a large quantity of maps consisting of planning proposals for developing cities, counties, airports, parks, recreation facilities, airports and also addresses the conservation concerns of the community.
CALVO, ANTONIO REGALADO [1900-1973] AND MARIA DE LA LUZ (MENDEZ) [1896-1982] [ALC] [Non-LC]
Papers, 1926-2001
Acc. #: 04-06
.5 linear feet
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
Antonio Regalado Calvo (1900-1973) and Maria de la Luz Mendez Calvo (1896-1982) were immigrants from the Mexican state of Sonora. They made a life together as the owners of a small Mexican restaurant in the city of San Fernando.
The collection of Antonio and Luz (Mendez) Calvo gives a glimpse into the lives of a Mexican and Mexican-American family in the Los Angeles area during the mid-20th century. The collection consists of baptismal certificates, birth certificates, correspondence, family trees, identification cards, invitations, marriage certificates, newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and a yearbook.
CALVO, RAUL-ORAL HISTORY
[3 November 2004] [RC] [Non-LC]
Oral History, 11/3/2004 A/V
Acc. #: 04-10
[Description of Oral History not available at this time]
DENTZEL, CARL S.
[1913-1980] [CSD] [Non-LC]
Papers, 1930s - 1970s
Acc.#: 86-04
5 cubic feet [unprocessed]
Closed until processing is completed
Carl S. Dentzel was a determined leader in the cultural affairs of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley from 1940 until his death in 1980. He had a lifelong interest in the Southwest and a commitment to preserving its unique Native American, Spanish and Mexican heritage. Dentzel was born and raised in Beverly Hills. After study and travel in Europe, the Far East and Mexico, Dentzel settled in the northwest region of the San Fernando Valley known at the time as Zelzah and North Los Angeles. He and other leaders of the community worked successfully to get the community renamed "Northridge" which is still in use today. In the 1940s, Dentzel was an editor and writer for the Northridge Herald and The Federalist, and served on the Northridge Chamber of Commerce and the Southern California Council of Inter-American Affairs.
The Dentzel collection is slowly being developed as family members continue to donate items to the collection. The donation includes articles, correspondence, diaries, diplomatic and commercial reports, pamphlets, studies, an unfinished manuscript about Baja California, maps, photographs and speeches.
Note: See also- MultiCultural Music Arts Foundation at Northridge Rancho Cordillera del Norte. P.O. Box 280101 Northridge CA 91328. Contact: Paul Dentzel.
Telephone: 818.349.3431
email: admin@mcmafn.org
website: http://mcmafn.org/
FEATHER RIVER PROJECT ASSOCIATION
[CALIFORNIA WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION, 1966 - ]
[1955 - ] [FRPA] [CD988 .W441 1955b]
Papers, 1955-1974
Acc.#: 88-05
1.2 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
The history of California's water problems is filled with controversy and confusion, attempted solutions, many outstanding successes as well as several significant failures. Between 1927 and the end of World War II, the State's Water Plan was still being formulated and revised with many issues still unclear, not state funded or workable between Northern water-rights owners and Southern California users. The Water Ownership Rights vs. Water User Rights controversy has continued to be a major source of contention throughout the history of the California Water Plan.
During the early 1950s, the California Department of Water Resources was created to develop a plan of action toward solving California's water problems and make recommendations to the state legislature. By 1955, the Department of Water Resources had completed its research and published a working document, known as the Bechtel Report, and began implementing the revised California Water Plan.
In 1955, the Feather River Project Association (FRPA) was incorporated as a not-for-profit, non-partisan educational association to serve the public interest in the areas of water resource development and water conservation. The main focus of FRPA activities were two-fold: First, the association would collect and develop research material and independent studies concerning all aspects of The California Water Plan; especially in those areas pertaining to the proposed Feather River Project. FRPA would also disseminate those findings that stressed the urgent need to fund and implement actions that further developed the California Water Plan. In 1965, reflecting the expansion in statewide water projects, conferences and membership, FRPA voted to change its name to the California Water Resources Association. The name change took effect on December 9, 1966.
The Feather River Project Association Collection was donated to the Archives by one of its members, the City of Burbank. The collection documents such important issues as the future development of California's water resources, the water rights controversy and the California Water Plan as it has been revised through legislative action from 1900 until the early 1970s. The papers include annual reports; articles of incorporation; board of directors' agendas and minutes; conference agendas, minutes and statements; contracts; correspondence; financial statements; membership applications and lists; legislative circulars; newsletters; position reports and statements; published reports and resolutions.
GREATER LOS ANGELES VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU
[1921 - ] [GLAVCB] [CD988 .W441 1900]
Papers, 1900-1980
Acc.#: 79-07
22.5 linear feet [processed]
5 cubic feet [unprocessed]
No Restrictions to processed portion of the collection
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
The GLAVCB, originally known as the All-Year Club, was formed in 1921 by members of the downtown Los Angeles business community which sought to promote year-round tourism in Southern California. The club helped orchestrate the boom of the late 1920s and continued to play a significant role during the Great Depression, World War II and the post-War era. Through its efforts, tourism became a major business in Southern California. In 1968, the All-Year Club changed its name to the Southern California Visitors Council. The Council merged with the Los Angeles Convention Bureau in 1977 and took its current name.
The collection includes extensive materials illustrating the club's work during Don Thomas' energetic leadership such as advertising copy, correspondence, financial records, minutes, posters and publicity pamphlets, research reports and surveys, souvenir booklets, speeches and tourist guides.
[Note: Additional material on tourism in California is located in California Tourism and Promotional Literature Collection in the CSUN Oviatt Library's Special Collections Department.]
LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DONATION- VAN NUYS OFFICE
[dates unknown] [LACP] [Non-LC]
Planning Reports, 1960s -1980s
Acc. #: 03-14
8 cubic feet [unprocessed]
Closed processing is completed
Urban planning seen through environmental impact reports, legislation, land use litigation newsletters, community plans and related documentation. Of special significance are records pertaining to the Porter Ranch and Warner Center districts of the San Fernando Valley and the Wilshire District of Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES HEADQUARTERS ASSOCIATION-NEWSLETTER
[1983 - ] [LAHA] [CD988 .W441 1984b]
Newsletters, 1984-2003
Acc. #: 95-04; 03-08
.25 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
Los Angeles Headquarters (City) Association was initially established in 1961 by local commercial and business owners to actively promote the City of Los Angeles. As stated in its newsletter, "Los Angeles Headquarters Association is an organization of businesses committed to Los Angeles achieving its optimum potential as a major world city by fostering responsible economic growth and improving it quality of life."
Activities of the association have included Adopt-A-School Program, Save the Books Campaign in response to the fire that severely damaged the Los Angeles Public Library, and sponsors of several key annual awards banquets such as the Spirit of Los Angeles Award, Corporate Award and Community Award. The awards are given to community leaders and businesses which have voluntary worked to promote the City of Los Angeles. The association also sponsors forums to discuss economic and legislative issues effecting local businesses in Los Angeles. In 1994, the Association celebrated its 34th year of activities.
The Los Angeles Headquarters Association Collection contains the organization's newsletter Focus for the period 1984 to 2003. The newsletters are arranged in chronological order by volume and issue number.
LOS FELIZ IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
[1922- ] [LFIA] [Non-LC]
Papers, 1922-1999
Acc. #: 03-19
12 cubic feet [unprocessed]
Closed until processing is completed
The community of Los Feliz is located just northeast of downtown Los Angeles, adjacent to Griffith Park. LFIA, like many homeowner associations throughout Los Angeles County was established during a period of rapid growth of the city.
Administrative and committee files, community planning reports, constitution and by-laws, correspondence, membership reports, newsletters, resolutions and related records. Of particular importance is the Los Feliz Historical Survey that was done by the association.
MELLEN, JOSEPH A.
[1898-1981] [JAM] [Non-LC]
Planning Reports
Acc.#: 01-09
24 cubic feet [unprocessed]
Closed until processing is completed
[Note: Description not available at this time.]
MULHOLLAND, CATHERINE
[dates unknown] [CM] [Non-LC]
Papers & Magazines
Acc. #: 03-12
.09 cubic feet [unprocessed
Closed until processing is completed
 
NELSON, SUSAN B. -[FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS & SEASHORE/FOUNDATION]
[1927-2003] [SBN] [Non-LC]
Papers, 1962-2003
Acc. #: 03-17
68 cubic feet [unprocessed]
Closed until processing is completed
[Note: Description not available at this time.]
NORDSKOG, ANDRAE B.
[1885-1962] [ABN] [CD988 .W441 1906]
Papers, 1906-1986
Acc. #: 93-09
16.5 linear feet
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
Andrae B. Nordskog was born Arne Andreas Nordskog to Norwegian parents in Story City, Iowa in 1885. His adolescent interest in both music and electrical gadgetry foreshadowed an adult life of multiple careers and endless activity. During his lifetime, Andrae assumed the roles of husband, father of five, concert tenor, businessman, teacher of constitutional law, political candidate and activist, writer and public speaker.
Andrae accomplished his greatest successes in music from 1914-1927. From 1914-1916 Andrae sang as lead tenor for both the Standard Grand Opera Company of Seattle and in 1917, for the Knickerbocker Light Opera Company in Los Angeles. After a brief stint as a telephone engineer during World War I, Andrae returned to his musical interests. Although he successfully taught voice in Santa Monica, Andrae hoped to bring music to Los Angeles on a grander scale. Between 1919 and 1924, he organized the Santa Monica Bay Cities Philharmonic Courses, organized the Los Angeles celebrations of National Music Week, and was general manager for the Hollywood May Festival Association (which organized the first event given at the newly built Hollywood Bowl in 1921). Also in 1921 Andrae established the first phonograph recording company on the Pacific Coast, Nordskog Records. Along with recording for "Cyclonic" Eva Tanguay and Thurlow Lieurance, he was the first to record New Orleans jazz music by African-American artists.
With the closing of his record company, Andrae moved to Los Angeles and turned his interest and energy toward political and economic reform. Beginning in 1926 he produced The Gridiron, a weekly paper that promoted public utility reform. In 1927 he became actively involved in the Los Angeles-Owens Valley water controversy. His testimony before the California Legislature, printed as Communication to the California Legislature Relating to the Owens Valley Situation (1931) influenced the way historians have viewed the Owens Valley controversy. Elected in 1930, Andrae served over thirty years as president of the Los Angeles based Southwest Water League. The League studied water needs and resources of the southwest, making recommendations on aqueduct and reclamation projects proposed at all levels of government.
Through the Depression Era and into the nineteen-forties, Andrae continued his political activism, serving on numerous commissions and running for political office on both a local and federal level. He participated as chair of the Southern California Rate and Traffic Commission (1924), was a member of the California State Legislative Constitutional Revision Committee and chair of the Subcommittee on Public Utilities (1947-1948). He ran for a City Council seat (1935), Mayor of Los Angeles (1937), and for Vice-President under the Liberty Party ticket (1932).
From the nineteen-thirties through the nineteen-fifties, Andrae also pursued reform independently, through his magazines New America and Our Nation, and through association with various voluntary organizations. In 1933, Andrae challenged the constitutionality of retaining the nation's gold by the Federal Reserve Banks, forcing the banks to return the metal to the Treasury Department, and saving the nation 2.8 billion dollars in interest. Through voluntary organizations he worked to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment (Income Tax), eliminate the Electoral College, eliminate communist influence in the country, promote the National Highway Plan and improve Social Security. He gave over 1,700 speeches and wrote numerous books and manuscripts on monetary policy and government financing.
The bulk of the collection deals with his involvement in political issues relating to constitutional law, government monetary policy, and public utilities, especially water related issues. A significant portion of the collection documents his musical career, including his record business and connection with centers like the Hollywood Bowl and Santa Monica Bay Cities Philharmonic Courses. Nordskog's activities are documented predominantly through articles, booklets, congressional and legislative bills, correspondence, legal papers, magazines, newspaper clippings, newsletters, notes, printed matter, reports, statements, and testimony.
NORTHEAST VALLEY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
[PACOIMA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER]
[Note: See Section X: Oral History Interviews for detailed listing of interviewees.]
NORTHRIDGE CIVIC ASSOCIATION
[1952- ] [NCA] [CD988 .W441 1957]
Papers, 1957-1983
Acc.#: 85-16
5.5 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
Northridge Civic Association, Inc., a non-profit corporation, was established in the 1950s to promote and protect the interests and welfare of residential property owners in Northridge and neighboring cities in the northern section of the San Fernando Valley. Zoning, taxation, land and water use, streets and highways, annexation of fringe areas to Los Angeles, parks and playgrounds are development issues documented in the collection. Of specific interest to NCA members was the implementation of the Los Angeles General Plan and the changes it placed on their neighborhoods.
Files include administrative records, correspondence, maps, membership rosters, minutes, planning reports and city publications, and issues of The Wrangler and Transformation 2000 newsletters.
PACOIMA REVITALIZATION, INC. [1978-1981] [PRI] [CD988 .W441 1973]
Papers, 1978-1981
Acc. #: 81-10
3 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
In 1978, Pacoima Revitalization, Inc. (PRI) was created as a non-profit public corporation to direct the redevelopment program for the City of Pacoima located in the northeastern San Fernando Valley. The program was federally funded through the Los Angeles Community Development Department. PRI sought to arrange rehabilitation loans for housing renewal and capital improvement funds to foster industrial development, enhance commercial services and employment opportunities. Lacking continuation grants and funding, PRI closed its operation down in July 1981.
Articles of incorporation, by-laws, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, news releases, published articles and pamphlets, slides and audio-cassette tapes on PRI activities and projects.
RESEDA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
[1935 - ] [RCC] [CD988 .W441 1935]
Papers, 1935-1987
Acc. #: 87-07
5.5 linear feet [processed]
15 cubic feet [unprocessed]
No Restrictions on processed portion of the collection
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
The Reseda Chamber of Commerce (RCC) was formed by area merchants in 1935 to promote the welfare of the community and to cultivate the business and social interests of its members. The chamber involved itself in such municipal concerns as parking, flood control, street development and zoning issues. The organization also promoted local business by providing information about the community to attract potential commercial and residential growth.
Files include organizational records, correspondence, business directories, event records, financial records, newspaper clippings, newsletters, scrapbooks and 180 photographs.
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, ROCKETDYN DIVISION, SANTA SUSANNA FIELD LABORATORY ACTIVITY REPORTS [Now a DIVISION OF THE BOEING COMPANY] [ROCK] [CD988 .W441 1985] Reports, 1985- 54 linear feet [processed] Acc. # 90-13 No Restriction
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
The various environmental activity reports that make up the collection were donated to the Library of California State University, Northridge in April 1990 by S.R. Lafflam, Manager, Environmental Unit, Facilities & Plant Operations, Rocketdyne Division, Rockwell International Corporation in Canoga Park, California. In December 1996 Rocketdyne and the Santa Susana Field Laboratory became a subsidiary of the Boeing Company. Additional environmental reports were added to the collection by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services which has designated the Urban Archives Center as one of its member repositories. The collection will continue to be updated with environmental activity reports as they are transferred to the Archives.
The collection contains action plans, activity reports, assessment and investigative reports, permits, newsletters, annual and bimonthly monitoring reports conducted by environmental consultants, Rocketdyne staff, the Department of Health Services and the U.S. Department of Energy at the Santa Susana Field Laboratories. Subjects of particular interest covered in the reports include environmental concerns such as air, groundwater and soil pollution, hazardous waste cleanup and environmental management. The collection also includes documentation on community workgroup meetings sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency.
SANTA SUSANA MOUNTAIN PARK ASSOCIATION [1970 - ] [SSMPA] [Non-LC] Papers, 1969-1986 11 linear feet [semi-processed] Acc.#: 86-14
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
In 1969, Jan Hinkston of Chatsworth Beautiful and Jean Searle of the Sierra Club began a joint effort campaign to preserve the Santa Susana Mountains. The following year the Santa Susana Mountain Park Association was formed with Hinkston serving as its first president. Through the association's work, the historic Stage Coach Trail built in the 1850s was added to the National Registry of Historic Places. As the only road over the Santa Susana Mountains; tales of tedious rides, robberies and buried treasure contribute to the trails historic significance. Unusual geological formations make the Santa Susana Mountains an area of prehistoric significance. Successful negotiations with state and local governments resulted in the establishment of a local visitors park.
Correspondence, administrative files, newsletters and research papers documenting the importance of the mountains to San Fernando Valley history.
SENATOR ALAN ROBBINS COLLECTION [1973-1992] [SAR] [Non-LC] Papers, 1973-1992 64 Cubic Feet [unprocessed] Acc. #: 92-03
Some restrictions
The papers of Senator Alan Robbins were donated to the University Library's Urban Archives Center in several installments during the summer of 1992. The papers represent the activities of both his legislative office in Sacramento and his District Office in Van Nuys. The transfer arrangement of the collection and this inventory were prepared by student interns from CSUN's Department of History under the supervision of the archivist. The collection is closed to research until processing is completed. Restrictions have been placed upon the correspondence files between Senator Robbins and his legal counsel.
STANLEY, JAMES A.
[dates unknown] [JAS] [Non-LC]
Papers,....
Acc. #: 89-06
6 cubic feet [semi-processed]
Closed until processing is completed
[Description not available at this time.]
TARZANA PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION
[1966- ] [TPOA] [Non-LC]
Papers, 1966-1993
Acc. #: 93-01
7 linear feet [semi-processed]
Closed until processing is completed
[Description not available at this time.]
TILLACK, CORALIE H.
(HOLLYWOOD-BURBANK AIRPORT)
[1920 - ] [CHT] [CD988 .W441 1930]
Papers, 1930-1987
Acc.#: 87-23
1.5 linear feet [processed]
Restrictions on photographic duplication for images owned by Lockheed Corporation and Tillack manuscript.
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
In 1956, Coralie Tillack began her twenty-six year employment with Lockheed Air Terminal (Hollywood-Burbank Airport) located in Burbank, California. Starting as a telephone switchboard operator and later transferring to Field Operations, Mrs. Tillack was captivated by the history of the first million-dollar airport constructed in the United States, and she began gathering material to write a column for the company newspaper.
Over the years, she accumulated a large collection of newspaper clippings, magazines, books, memorabilia and photographs along with her notes from personal interviews with many of the airport's long-time employees. In 1982, she retired to write her own story of the airport, and her manuscript, Once Upon an Airport, was copyrighted in June 1987.
VALLEY INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ASSOCIATION
[Formerly INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY]
[1949 - ] [VICA] [CD988 .W441 1949]
Papers, 1949-1981
Acc.#: 78-01
8.5 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
The Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA) is a non-profit organization formed to attract industry to the San Fernando Valley and to protect the interests of Valley property owners and investors. It was founded in 1949 as the Industrial Association of the San Fernando Valley. Its members are manufacturers, real estate agents, retailers and professionals; as well as service organizations, chambers of commerce, banks, utilities and governmental bodies.
The VICA collection reflects the organizations wide-ranging industrial and zoning concerns through articles of incorporation, by-laws, charts, correspondence, fact sheets, financial reports, maps, membership rosters, minutes, newsletters, ordinances, photographs, public relations literature and video- taped interviews.
VALLEY VOTE-SAN FERNANDO VALLEY SECESSION MOVEMENT
[1996- ] [VOTE] [Non-LC]
Paper, 1996-2002
Acc. #: 03-03
29 cubic feet [unprocessed]
Closed until transfer inventory completed
[Note: Description not available at this time]
VOGLER, ASHER
[dates unknown] [AV] [Non-LC]
Manuscripts, 1935-1950
Acc.#: 85-17
.5 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
This small collection of certificates, charter, correspondence, memorabilia and related items saved by Mr. Vogler depict the community of South Gate, California's concern in the social and political issues affecting it during and immediately following a period of nationwide depression. Individuals of the community banded together becoming involved with three organizations that reflect these issues: The Democratic State Central Committee, End Poverty League, Inc. and The Epic Club of South Gate.
WARD, LINCOLN
[dates unknown] [LWC] [Non-LC]
Radio Interviews, 1976-1978 43 audio-cassettes [processed]
Acc.#: 79-04
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
While serving as president of the Industrial Association of the San Fernando Valley (now VICA), Ward hosted a weekly radio talk show on KCSN called "Our Business Is Your Business." A Pacific Telephone Company executive, Ward assisted by Joseph Staller of the Southern California Gas Company interviewed guests representing a cross-section of the local community.
Interviewees include Al Dorskind, Robert Selleck, Robert Neiman, Barbara Klein, Marjorie Kinney, Don Coyle, Robert Nordskog and Police Lt. Bill Shearer. The collection also includes tapes of 14 programs of a similar KCSN interview show hosted by Mark Alyn.
WEEKS, CHARLES
[dates unknown] [CW] [CD988 .W441 1923]
Papers, 1920-1928
Acc.#: 80-14
.5 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
Link to Descriptive Finding Guide
In 1920, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce invited poultryman Charles Weeks to establish in the San Fernando Valley a colony of one-acre egg ranches based on a formula he had successfully used in Palo Alto, California. Weeks accepted the invitation and colonized Owensmouth (now Canoga Park) with intentions of developing it into a regional center for social, intellectual and artistic enlightenment. The collection consists of scattered issues of The Intensive Little Farm from 1923 to 1925 and Chant-It-Clear from 1927 to 1928 and several individual publications issued by the Weeks Colony.
WEST VAN NUYS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
[1952 - ] [WVNCC] [CD988 .W441 1953]
Papers, 1952-1965
Acc.#: 80-13
1.5 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
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The West Van Nuys Chamber of Commerce (WVNCC) was established in 1952 by local merchants and ranchers who reactivated an original charter granted in 1940. Because it long championed the cause of the Van Nuys Airport, the world's most active non-commercial airport, WVNCC is often referred to as the "Airport Chamber."
The papers include agendas, correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and photographs. Some of the principal correspondents are Los Angeles mayors Norris Poulson, Sam Yorty and Tom Bradley. Also included are records of other chambers of commerce and the Los Angeles Board of Public Works.
ZORASTER, ALBERT
[1906 - ] [AZ] [CD988 .W441 1948]
Papers, 1951-1979
Acc.#: 80-12
1.5 linear feet [processed]
No Restrictions
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As a resident and businessman and San Fernando Valley resident since the 1920s, Albert Zoraster devoted much of his life to civic improvement. He worked as a volunteer with the Los Angeles City Board of Education, the Mayor's Valley Transportation Committee, the Los Angeles Department of Airports, Valley Presbyterian Hospital, and was a member of the Foundation board of trustees at California State University, Northridge. He has also been an active leader in several Valley rotary clubs, citizen advisory committees and chambers of commerce, and has received various civic awards, including the prestigious Fernando Award in 1975. He also was an officer of the Industrial Association of the San Fernando Valley and a charter member of the Van Nuys Chamber of Commerce. Zoraster continued to donate his time to various Valley causes throughout his retirement until his death after a long battle with cancer in April 1995.
The collection documents such topics as Van Nuys Airport, a proposed Malibu Freeway, Birmingham High School stadium, city planning, land use and transportation in the Valley. The materials include correspondence, maps, minutes, newspaper clippings, newsletters, photographs, resolutions, reports and speeches.
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