Laurel Canyon

This article covers a canyon and the Los Angeles neighborhood named after it. For the film by director Lisa Cholodenko see Laurel Canyon (film) and for the gorge of the same name in Arizona see Laurel Canyon (Arizona) .

The Trackless Trolley in Laurel Canyon was the first trolleybus in the United States

Laurel Canyon is a canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains and a residential area in Los Angeles , California . She has been featured in numerous Los Angeles films, novels, and songs, including the 2002 drama Laurel Canyon . Even Joni Mitchell lived that there for several years, refers to the title of her album Ladies of the Canyon and the same song (1970).

history

The name probably goes back to the Californian laurel ( Umbellularia californica ) growing there , which is also called California bay laurel in English . From 1910 to 1915, the first trolleybus in the United States operated in the Laurel Canyon . On December 14, 1962, when a Lockheed Super Constellation crashed into the residential area, 29 buildings were damaged and all five people on board and three residents were killed. On July 1, 1981, four people were cruelly murdered in the neighborhood. Because of the then well-known porn star John Holmes as Tatverdächtigem the quadruple murder went as Wonderland murders (English Wonderland murders ) in history. In 1982 he was acquitted of the murder charge, the murders have not yet been solved.

Famous residents

• Jennifer Aniston (* 1969), actress, film producer and director
• Christina Applegate (* 1971), actress and film producer
• Joe Bonamassa (* 1977), blues and blues rock guitarist, singer and composer
• Jackson Browne (born 1948), rock musician and singer-songwriter
• Eric Burdon (born 1941), rock musician
• Movita Castaneda (1916–2015), film actress, wife of Marlon Brando
• Cass Elliot (1941–1974), singer
• Errol Flynn (1909-1959), film actor
• John Frusciante (* 1970), guitarist
• Werner Herzog (* 1942), director, producer, actor and writer
• Chris Hillman (born 1944), musician
• Niall Horan (* 1993), singer-songwriter and guitarist
• Carole King (* 1942), singer, songwriter and pianist
• Lykke Li (* 1986), singer
• Ray Manzarek (1939–2013), musician and writer
• John Mayall (born 1933)
• Joni Mitchell (* 1943), musician and painter
• Graham Nash (born 1942), singer and songwriter
• Robert Mitchum (1917–1997), actor
• Keith Moon (1946–1978), musician
• Jim Morrison (1943–1971), singer, songwriter and poet
• Iggy Pop (* 1947), singer, guitarist, composer, drummer and actor
• Slash (born 1965), rock musician
• Danny Sugerman (1954-2005), manager
• Rufus Wainwright (* 1973), singer and songwriter, composer
• Orson Welles (1915–1985), film director, actor and author
• Frank Zappa (1940–1993), composer and musician

literature

• Michael Walker: Laurel Canyon. In the legendary valley of rock 'n' roll. Rogner & Bernhard, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8077-1033-4 .
• David McGowan: Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon. Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream. Headpress, April 18, 2014, ISBN 978-1-909394-12-4 .

Web links

• Movie Laurel Canyon (2002)

Coordinates: 34 ° 7 ′  N , 118 ° 23 ′  W