Boundaries of Reseda as drawn by the Los Angeles Times Boundaries of Reseda as drawn by the Los Angeles Times Reseda is positioned in San Fernando Valley Reseda - Reseda Reseda /r si d / is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California.
The region now known as Reseda, like much of Los Angeles County, originally was inhabited by Native Americans of the Tongva tribe who lived close to what is now known as the Los Angeles River. It was titled after Marian Otis Chandler, the daughter of the Los Angeles Times publisher, Harrison Gray Otis and wife of Harry Chandler. The name Reseda itself refers to the fragrant plant Reseda odorata (English name is mignonette) which was generally found in plant nurseries of the time and is native to many areas with a Mediterranean climate.
The geographic name "Reseda" was first used for a siding on a branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which ran between the metros/cities of Burbank and Chatsworth in the San Fernando Valley.
In the 1920s, the name Reseda was transferred from the Southern Pacific Railroad to the Western Division of the Pacific Electric Railway "Red Cars Line", which had expedited evolution after the building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
To avoid confusion in mail distribution it is necessary that the name of the town be changed and the citizens of that improve have decided upon the name Reseda, and if the application is granted it will be the only postal service in the United States by that name.
The wooden building, housing the Fire Department, was then moved to the southeast side of Sherman Way, where it remained until 1933. In May 1929, the city's namesake roadway, Reseda Avenue, was retitled Reseda Boulevard by a Los Angeles City ordinance. Parts of the initial 1920s and 1930s residentiary neighborhood remain and are found to the southwest of Sherman Way and Reseda Boulevard.
However, by 1940 the populace had increased to 4,147 residents. The mid to later 1940's saw a large increase in the numbers of single-family dwellings in Reseda and the loss of various acres of agriculture, and the addition of First Class Postal Service. Reseda was one of the first suburbs in the San Fernando Valley.
At the time, most of the jobs were in the Los Angeles Basin and to the south, over the Santa Monica mountain peaks.
By 1950, Reseda had over 16,000 inhabitants and in the early 1950s, a populace explosion took place, making Reseda one of the most prominent and populated of all Valley communities.
Because of this, Reseda's merchants provided bus service to transport shoppers throughout the busy downtown Reseda areas. Its epicenter was between Arminta Street and Ingomar Street, just west of Reseda Boulevard. Reseda is bordered on the north by Northridge, on the east by Lake Balboa, on the south by Tarzana and Encino on the west by Winnetka. Its street boundaries are Roscoe Boulevard on the north, White Oak Avenue on the east, Victory Boulevard on the south and Corbin Avenue on the west. Reseda was described by the Los Angeles Times, Mapping L.A.
Los Angeles Fire Department Station 73 (Reseda) and Station 100 (West Van Nuys/Lake Balboa) serve the community.
Los Angeles Police Department operates the close-by West Valley Community Police Station. Mail services are provided by the United States Postal Service's branch postal service at 7320 Reseda Boulevard. On October 14, 2006, the branch office was retitled the Coach John Wooden Post Office on Wooden's 96th birthday, with respect to the late UCLA basketball coach who lived in close-by Encino and whose daughter lives in Reseda. Reseda High School.
Reseda High School, 18320 Kittridge Street Reseda Elementary School, 7265 Amigo Avenue Reseda Community Adult School, 18230 Kittridge Street In 1982, the board considered method Garden Grove Elementary School in Reseda.
In April 1983, an advisory committee of the Los Angeles Unified School District recommended method eight schools, including Garden Grove School and Newcastle Avenue School in Reseda. In August 1983, the board publicly considered method Garden Grove, which had 176 students at the time, and Newcastle Avenue, which had 314 students. In 1984, the board voted to close the Garden Grove and Newcastle Avenue schools. A decade after the schools shut their doors, 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.
The Reseda Country Club, of Boogie Nights fame, was a well-known concert venue amid the Los Angeles punk modern and new wave scenes of the 1980s.
Located at the intersection of Canby Avenue and Sherman Way, the Country Club was host to bands, including Oingo Boingo, U2, Culture Club, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and Roxy Music, from 1980 to 1982. The site which began in the 1950s as one of the first Sav-On Drug stores in the San Fernando Valley, later became a evening club and remained a dance hall and music venue throughout the 1990s; it was also used as a boxing venue. The site later became and since remains a Spanish-language Christian church. Reseda Park and Recreation Center, positioned at the corner of Reseda and Victory Boulevards, has barbecue pits, a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outside basketball courts, a children's play area, a improve room with a capacity of 200, picnic tables, an outside unheated cyclic pool, table tennis, lighted tennis courts, and lighted volleyball courts. The Recreation Center offers a range of sports programs and classes. Reseda Park also hosts an ornamental lake for fishing and a large duck pond. During the 1950s and 1960s, the duck pond also had a boathouse, where one could rent electric boats by the hour. West Valley Regional Branch of Los Angeles Public Library, at 19036 Vanowen Street The West Valley Regional Branch is directed by the Los Angeles Public Library.
In a season-three episode of Angel, called "Birthday", Cordelia's vision leads her to visit a girl who lives in Reseda.
The experienced wrestling business "Pro Wrestling Guerrilla" has, since February 2008, held each of their affairs in American Legion Post #308 in Reseda, only holding the 2008 DDT4, 2008 Battle of Los Angeles, and their three "Kurt Russellreunion" affairs elsewhere. Lorenzen (1920 80), Los Angeles City Council member, 1969 77 Flag of Los Angeles County, California.svg - Los Angeles portal a b c d e "Reseda Chamber of Commerce-History of Reseda" Department of Public Works-City of Los Angeles.
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