Glendale, California
Glendale, California City of Glendale View of Glendale from Forest Lawn Memorial Park View of Glendale from Forest Lawn Memorial Park Flag of Glendale, California Flag Official seal of Glendale, California Location of Glendale inside County of Los Angeles and the State of California Location of Glendale inside County of Los Angeles and the State of California Glendale, California is positioned in the US Glendale, California - Glendale, California Glendale / l nde l/ is a town/city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
Its estimated 2014 populace was 200,167, making it the third biggest city in Los Angeles County and the 23rd-largest town/city in California.
Glendale lies on the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley, bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
The town/city is bordered to the northwest by the Sun Valley and Tujunga neighborhoods of Los Angeles; to the northeast by La Canada Flintridge and the unincorporated region of La Crescenta; to the west by Burbank and Griffith Park; to the east by Eagle Rock and Pasadena; to the south by the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles; and to the southeast by Glassell Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The Golden State, Ventura, Glendale, and Foothill freeways run through the city.
Glendale has one of the biggest communities of Armenian descent in the United States. In 2013, Glendale was titled LA's Neighborhood of the Year by the readers and editors of Curbed.com. The Glendale region in the 1870s In 1860, his grandson Teodoro Verdugo assembled the Verdugo Adobe, which is the earliest building in Glendale.
Glendale, 1910 In 1884, inhabitants gathered to form a townsite and chose the name "Glendale" (it was bounded by First Street (now Lexington Drive) on the north, Fifth Street (now Harvard Street) on the south, Central Avenue on the west, and the Childs Tract on the east). Residents to the southwest formed "Tropico" in 1887.
Glendale incorporated in 1906, and took in Tropico 12 years later.
Harrower opened his clinic in Glendale in 1920, which for many years was the biggest company in the city.
In 1964, Glendale was chose by George Lincoln Rockwell to be the West Coast command posts of the American Nazi Party.
In 1977 and 1978, 10 murdered women were found in and around Glendale in what became known as the case of the Hillside Strangler.
Glendale from Griffith Park in the southwest, with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background and the Verdugo Hills on the extreme left Glendale is positioned at the junction of two large valleys, the San Fernando and the San Gabriel.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 79.212 km2 (30.6 sq mi); 30.5 square miles (79 km2) of it is territory and 0.13 square miles (0.34 km2) of it (0.43%) is veiled by water.
It is bordered to the north by the foothill communities of La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta, and Tujunga; to the south by the Atwater Village improve incorporated by the town/city of Los Angeles; to the east by Pasadena and Eagle Rock (also incorporated inside Los Angeles); and to the west by the town/city of Burbank.
Glendale is positioned 10 miles (16 km) north of downtown Los Angeles. Several known earthquake faults criss-cross the Glendale region and adjoining mountain peaks, as in much of Southern California.
Roughly 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Glendale is a primary portion of the San Andreas Fault known as the "Big Bend", where quake-recurrence tracking shows primary activity roughly every 140 160 years.
The closest portion of the San Andreas is actually 29 miles (47 km) from Glendale.
In the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, which took place along the edge of the Sierra Madre Fault, surface ruptures were nearly 12 miles (19 km) long, including one portion a several miles northwest of Glendale.
Most of the damage was in the northern San Fernando Valley, though 31 structures in Glendale suffered primary damage and had to be demolished, plus various chimneys collapsed.
The 1994 Northridge earthquake had an epicenter about 18 miles (29 km) from Glendale.
The town/city suffered harsh damage to a enhance parking structure and sections of the Glendale Galleria parking structures and exterior columns incurred damages. Glendale has a Mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csa).
The highest recorded temperature in Glendale was 110 F (43 C) on a several occasions.
The hills and mountain peaks of northern Glendale very rarely have snow, owing to its warmer temperatures amid the winter.
One to eight thunderstorms occur in Glendale each year.
Climate data for Glendale, California The town/city has nearly 50 enhance parks, from Deukmejian Wilderness Park in the north to Cerritos Park in the south. Central Park has the only West Coast monument to Korean comfort women of World War II. 1 Glendale Adventist Medical Center 2,662 2 Glendale Unified School District 2,460 3 City of Glendale 1,997 7 Glendale Community College 1,242 8 Glendale Memorial Medical Center 1,200 801 North Brand, one of Glendale's many undivided high-rise buildings: Companies such as Nestle, Nexus - Lab, Great West Life, Citi, Unum, and Cigna have offices downtown.
Grand Central Airport was a municipal airport advanced from 1923 which became the biggest employer in Glendale for many years, and contributed to the evolution of aviation in the United States in many meaningful ways.
Forest Lawn Memorial Park started in Tropico (later took in to Glendale) in 1906 and is famous for its art compilation and the burial of many celebrities, as well as for the 1933 opening of the first funeral home on cemetery grounds anywhere in the United States. The Bob's Big Boy chain of hamburger restaurants started in Glendale on East Colorado in August 1936, and the Baskin-Robbins "31 Flavors" chain of ice cream parlors started in Adams Square in 1945.
The Glendale Public Library on Harvard Street homes its "Special Collections" department which contains initial documents and records on much of the history of Glendale.
The town/city experienced momentous evolution in the 1970s, with the culmination of the Glendale Freeway (Highway 2) and the Ventura Freeway (Highway 134).
This encompassed redevelopment of Brand Boulevard, renovation of the 1925 Alex Theatre, and assembly of the Glendale Galleria shopping mall which opened in 1976, and was further period in 1982.
Several large companies have offices in Glendale including the U.S.
The Los Angeles county-wide office of California's State Compensation Insurance Fund is in Glendale.
Americas United Bank was established in Glendale in 2006 and is still headquartered there.
Nero AG, the software business that makes Nero Burning ROM, also has its chief North American subsidiary positioned in Glendale.
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Glendale, along with Burbank, has served as a primary manufacturing center for the U.S.
Animation trade in particular for a several decades, because the Walt Disney Company outgrew its Burbank studio lot in the early 1960s, and started expanding into the closest company park available, which happened to be Glendale's Grand Central Business Centre about two miles east.
Today, Disney's Grand Central Creative Campus (known as GC3 for short) is home to Consumer Products, Disney Interactive, the Muppets Studio, and Marvel Animation Studios. From 1985 to 1995, Walt Disney Animation Studios (then known as Walt Disney Feature Animation) was headquartered in the Grand Central Business Centre, meaning that most of the films of the Disney Renaissance era were actually advanced in Glendale.
Thus, many American animators who worked on feature films in the 1990s and 2000s have spent large portions of their careers in Glendale working for Disney or Dream - Works.
The new Glendale evolution was opened to the enhance on May 2, 2008, and features 75 shops and restaurants, 238 apartements, 100 condominiums, and a Pacific Theatres 18-plex Cinema which seats 3000 citizens . A 2011 study by an outside consulting organization hired by the town/city showed that citizens felt Glendale was boring, though many beloved animated films have been created by Disney and Dream - Works in Glendale.
After seeing the results of the study, the Glendale City Council voted to appropriate $1 million to undertake an image campaign based on the tagline: "Your Life.
Glendale has a wide selection for shoppers, one being the Glendale Galleria, which is anchored by Macy's, Target, J.
Penney, and Bloomingdales, and the Americana at Brand, which is an upscale outside mall (similar to the Grove at Farmers Market in L.A.) which includes stores such as Tiffany & Co., H&M, Armani Exchange, True Religion, Forever 21, and Urban Outfitters. The Americana at Brand is home to a Nordstrom, which was previously positioned inside the Glendale Galleria.
Another shopping region is the Glendale Fashion Center, which is anchored by Ross, TJ Maxx, Nordstrom Rack, Staples, and Petco.
Shopping can also be done at Montrose Shopping Park in North Glendale.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Glendale had a populace of 191,719.
The ethnic makeup of Glendale was 136,226 (71.1%) White, 2,573 (1.3%) Black, 531 (0.3%) Native American, 31,434 (16.4%) Asian (6.9% Filipino, 5.4% Korean, 1.3% Chinese), 122 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 12,146 (6.3%) from other competitions, and 8,687 (4.5%) from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was distributed as 35,732 (18.6%) under the age of 18, 16,609 (8.7%) aged 18 to 24, 54,518 (28.4%) aged 25 to 44, 54,942 (28.7%) aged 45 to 64, and 29,918 (15.6%) who were 65 years of age or older.
During 2009 2013, Glendale had a median homehold income of $53,020, with 14.2% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. In the city, the populace was distributed as 22.4% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 32.2% from 25 to 44, 23.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
In June 2000, Erin Texeira of the Los Angeles Times stated that as stated to data from the US Enumeration and the City of Glendale, the populations were about 30% Armenians, 25% other White, 25% Latino and Hispanic, and 16% Asian. Armenian Americans are well integrated into the city, with many businesses, a several Armenian schools, and ethnic/cultural organizations serving this ethnic group.
Most of the Armenians in Glendale appeared in the town/city in the past two decades. The town/city of Glendale is home to one of the biggest Armenian communities outside of Armenia.
Beginning in the late 1980s, with assistance from family and friends already there, Armenians from the former Soviet Union began arriving. In the Glendale Unified School District, by 1988, along with students from the Middle East, they had turn into the biggest ethnic group in the enhance schools, now having a larger number than the Latinos. Glendale became the municipality with the biggest number of ethnic Armenians other than Yerevan.
Rick Young, a Glendale Police Department spokesperson, stated, "In five to eight years, the [Armenian] improve went from a several thousand to about 40,000." Levon Marashlian, an instructor of Armenian history at Glendale College, stated that in the early 1990s Glendale's Armenian improve became the biggest in the Los Angeles urbane area, surpassing the Armenian improve of Hollywood. Alice Petrossian, the GUSD director of intercultural education, stated that Burbank lies inside the middle of other Armenian communities, so it thriving Armenians. A new command posts of the Armenian National Committee/Western Region opened in 1994. By 1999, about 25% of the populace spoke Armenian and there were many Armenian businesses. By 2005 the Armenian populace was 40% of the total population. According to the United States 2000 Census, Glendale is home to 65,343 Armenian-Americans (making up 34.1% of the total population), increasing from 1990 when there were 31,402 Armenian-Americans in the city. As of 2005, one-third of Los Angeles' estimated 153,000 Armenians, or 51,000 around a quarter of Glendale's 205,000 inhabitants was Armenian.
At that time, Armenians held a majority on the Glendale town/city council, and it had done so since that year. As of November 2015, three of the five members of Glendale's town/city council are of Armenian descent: Mayor Ara Najarian and councilmembers Zareh Sinanyan (mayor from April 2014 to April 2015) and Vartan Gharpetian.
Former Armenian-American mayors of Glendale include Larry Zarian, Bob Yousefian, and Rafi Manoukian.
Some outspoken members of the highly prosperous Armenian-American modern band, System Of A Down, were based in Glendale at the time of formation.
The Mexican American improve was established in Glendale by the 1960s.
The late 1980s and the early 1990s also saw increases in Mexican American populace as Glendale offers a safer suburban surrounding away from the town/city with higher character education. As of 2012, Filipino Americans were the third biggest minority roup in Glendale, making up seven percent of the city's total population, overtaking Korean Americans. After the Persian Revolution, many Persians migrated into the metros/cities seeking a suburban town/city with lower crime and character education. According to the city's most recent elected annual financial report, the city's various funds had $575.6 million in revenues, $542.8 million in expenditures, $2,089.7 million in total assets, $480.9 million in total liabilities, and $460.4 million in cash and investments. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Glendale Health Center in Glendale. In the United States House of Representatives, Glendale is in California's 28th congressional district, represented by Democrat Adam Schiff. In the California State Legislature, Glendale is in the 25th Senate District, represented by Democrat Anthony Portantino, and in the 43rd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Laura Friedman. Main article: Crime in Glendale, California Glendale maintains its own police department, which operates from its chief station in downtown Glendale, its downtown substation in the Glendale Galleria, and the Montrose substation in Verdugo City.
The California Highway Patrol has its Southern Division Headquarters on Central Avenue in downtown Glendale.
Fire protection is provided by the Glendale Fire Department (GFD).
The GFD is an all-risk, longterm position fire protection agency, responding to about 17,000 emergency and nonemergency calls for service annually. The GFD consists of nine strategically positioned fire stations, with mutual aid provided by the Los Angeles County Fire Department, Los Angeles City Fire Department, Burbank Fire Department, and Pasadena Fire Department.
The Verdugo FCC was established on August 1, 1979, between the metros/cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena as a way to consolidate fire dispatching and telecommunications between the departments. Presently, Verdugo provides services to all 13 fire departments in the California OES "Area C" mutual aid plan, making them a county-wide dispatch center.
The center is stationed on the third floor of Glendale Fire Department's command posts (Fire Station 21) and handles roughly 72,000 calls for service annually. The fire chiefs from Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena oversee the center under a joint powers authority.
In 2014, Glendale was titled the ninth-safest town/city in America in a report presented by 24/7 Wall Street based on violent crime rates in metros/cities with more than 100,000 citizens . Also in 2014, real estate business Movoto used FBI data crime data from 2013 to conduct a study of 100 U.S.
Cities with populations between 126,047 and 210,309 inhabitants and concluded that Glendale was the safest mid-sized town/city in America. The Glendale Unified School District operates the enhance schools in Glendale.
The GUSD high schools include Glendale High School, Herbert Hoover High School, Clark Magnet High School, Crescenta Valley High School positioned in La Crescenta and Allan F.
A number of private schools also operate in Glendale, including Chamlian Armenian School, Holy Family High School, Salem Lutheran School, and Glendale Adventist Academy.
Glendale is also home to Glendale Community College.
Glendale improve news is veiled by the Glendale News-Press, which was established in 1905.
See also: Glendale Station Glendale offers many transit options.
LADOT, Metro Local, Metro Rapid, and Glendale Beeline all have buses that run in the city.
Glendale Transportation Center provides connections to Greyhound buses and three train lines. Glendale is also served by four freeways: the Glendale Freeway (State Route 2), the Ventura Freeway (State Route 134), the Foothill Freeway (Interstate 210) and the Golden State Freeway (Interstate 5).
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