Canoga Park

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Canoga Park is a district of the American city of Los Angeles and is located in the San Fernando Valley .

geography

Confluence of Bell Creek and Calabasas Creek in Canoga Park

West Hills is west of Canoga Park and Winnetka is east . In Canoga Park, Bell Creek and Calabasas Creek flow together and form the Los Angeles River from here .

population

In the mid- 1990s , Canoga Park was still considered a predominantly white neighborhood (69% white), but with a growing proportion of minorities. According to the 2000 census, Canoga Park had 53,227 people; the 2008 Los Angeles Planning Bureau estimated 60,578 people in 2008. 50.9% are Latinos, 30.2% are white. 22,782 of the neighborhood's residents were born outside of the United States . The most common ethnic background of immigrants is Mexican (32%), followed by German (4%). The population density is high on average for Los Angeles, but above average for Los Angeles County .

history

The Canoga Park area was originally inhabited by Chumash and Tongva Indians .

Sherman Way in Owensmouth (now Canoga Park) around 1920

In 1909, Isaac N. Van Nuys , owner of the Los Angeles Farming and Milling Company and much of the land in the southern San Fernando Vally, sold his land, including what is now Canoga Park, to the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company for $ 2.5 Millions. The company subsequently opened up the area in order to sell it. On March 30, 1912, Owensmouth was established as part of this process. The development took place through the construction of the central street, today Sherman Way, and the connection to the rail network of the Electric Pacific Railroad. The connection to the water supply of Los Angeles was not made until 1917.

Electric Pacific station at Owensmouth (now Canoga Park), 1913

The Electric Pacific station was built near a well named after Canoga, New York. The name Owensmouth referred to the water source of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the Owens River in the Owens Valley . Owensmouth was renamed Canoga Park in 1931. The Post had insisted on adding "Park" to avoid confusion with Canoga, New York State.

Canoga Park was also a small, rural settlement for a long time, but this began to change in the 1940s with the establishment of Pierce College and in the 1950s with the establishment of the aviation industry. Companies such as Rocketdyne , Boeing , Hughes Aircraft and Rockwell International settled here . Hughes closed its rocket manufacturing facility in the 1990s, which at the time employed 1,900 people.

In 1988 the western part of Canoga Park was renamed West Hills and split off as a separate district.

In 1994, the Northridge earthquake caused considerable damage to Canoga Park, but this could be repaired.

In 2005, the district was the first Los Angeles district to receive the All-America City Award .

Parks

In Canoga Park there is the Lanark Recreation Center , which offers a park, sports ( baseball , basketball , boxing , soccer , softball , swimming , tennis , volleyball ) for the youth and has appropriate facilities. On Shaddow Ranch Recreation Center are picnic tables , a baseball field, a American football field , a basketball court and a playground. Here, ballet , piano and other dance classes offered.

education

A total of twelve public and private schools are located in Canoga Park.

As elementary schools , Canoga Park Elementary School and Hart Street Elementary School serve grades from Kindergarten through Fifth grade. The Ingenium Charter School can also be attended as a primary school . The Columbus Middle School named after Christopher Columbus can then be visited. Canoga Park Senior High School is located near the beginning of the Los Angeles River

There is a Canoga Park Youth Arts Center that offers art classes for children and teenagers aged 6-17. The center is housed in a building that served as the first telephone company in the San Fernando Valley.

The Canoga Owensmouth Historic Society runs a small museum dedicated to the history of Canoga Park.

The Los Angeles Public Library has an office in Canoga Park on Sherman Way.

Canoga Park in film and television

In the movie Terminator 2 , John Connor's youth home is in Canoga Park.

Playboy TV broadcast the erotic comedy television series Canoga Park from 2007 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Canoga Park on the Los Angeles Times page .
  2. ↑ Caren Jao, New Greenway Opens at LA River's Headwaters in Canoga Park , KCET, July 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ Camille E. Zubrinsky, Prismatic Metropolis: Race and Residential Segregation in the City of the Angels , the Social Science Research 25, 335-374 (1996), S. 341st
  4. ↑ a b c d e Holly Andres, Canoga Park , Los Angeles Daily News, August 28, 2017.
  5. ^ A b c d Nathan Masters, Canoga Park at 100: A Brief History of the Birth of Owensmouth , KCET, April 4, 2012.
  6. ↑ Canoga Park / West Hills Chamber of Commerce
  7. ^ Hughes to Close Missile Facility at Canoga Park: Aerospace: Company will send 1,900 engineering jobs to Tucson. Executives blast California business climate. , Los Angeles Times, March 30, 1993.
  8. ^ Marc Wannamaker, Images of America - San Fernando Valley , Arcadia Publishing, Charlston 2011. ISBN 978-0-7385-7157-7 , p. 73 .
  9. ↑ Lanark Recreation Center on the Los Angeles Department of Parks home page
  10. ↑ Shaddow Ranch Recreation Center on the Los Angeles Department of Parks home page
  11. ↑ Canoga Park Elementary on the Los Angeles United School District website
  12. ^ Homepage of the Hart Street Elementary Scholl
  13. ^ Homepage of the Ingenium Charter School
  14. ^ Homepage of the Columbus Middle School
  15. ↑ Canoga Park Senior High School homepage
  16. ↑ Homepage of the Canoga Park Youth Arts Center
  17. ↑ [1]
  18. ↑ Canoga Park Branch Libery
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  20. ↑ Canoga Park on IMDb .