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Mission District
fromLos Angeles Times
8 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Pacoima's lackluster is hiding some bargains

Pacoima developed from agricultural land into a diverse community founded by speculator Jouett Allen in 1887, becoming a refuge for marginalized groups due to its lack of racial housing covenants.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
7 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Porter Ranch a scenic Valley community under a lingering cloud of unease

Porter Ranch developed from a 19th-century ranching property into a modern Los Angeles neighborhood through gradual land sales and suburban expansion beginning in the 1960s.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
8 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Granada Hills is satisfied with its suburban status, thank you very much

Granada Hills evolved from an agricultural area marketed as a rabbit-raising community in the 1920s to a residential neighborhood after the Los Angeles Aqueduct brought abundant water in 1913.
fromLos Angeles Times
7 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Hidden Hills offers gated seclusion A-listers seek

For landscape architect and developer A.E. Hanson, that rapid growth - and the traffic, smog and crowding that went with it - presented an opportunity. He purchased land in the hills at the far western end of the Valley and, tearing a page from the marketing plan for his other gated community of Rolling Hills, placed a billboard on Ventura Boulevard that called out to harried suburbanites with the siren cry: '1,000 Acres of Elbow Room.'
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Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
7 years ago

Neighborhood Spotlight: Chatsworth keeps one foot in the Old West

Chatsworth evolved from a remote agricultural area served by stagecoach routes into a semirural community that became a popular western filming location.
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