Toluca Lake

Toluca Lake is a district in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles , about 20 km north of downtown. Toluca Lake used to be farmland, but its population is growing and it is a celebrity home.

geography

Toluca Lake is located in the southeastern San Fernando Valley between the city of Burbank and the neighboring boroughs of North Hollywood and Studio City as well as the unincorporated area of Universal City . It's between Universal's film studios to the south and Warner Bros. to the east.

The municipality with 16,978 residents has the ZIP code 91602 and belongs to the area code 818. Local time is Pacific Standard Time and is eight hours after Coordinated Universal Time . During the summer time period, the time difference is seven hours. Toluca Lake is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District .

Toluca Lake was originally bounded by Cahuenga Boulevard, Camarillo Street, Clybourne Avenue and the Los Angeles River . In 1939 other areas were included. The district is surrounded by the Santa Monica Mountains .

The sea

The approximately 2.4 hectare eponymous Toluca Lake is located on the southeastern edge. The water originally had natural springs, but today it is pumps that keep the water level at its level. The bottom of the lake is sealed with a layer of asphalt about ten centimeters thick ( four inches of asphalt concrete ) to prevent the water from seeping away . The lake is owned by the owners of the properties adjacent to the lake (residential homes and a golf club) and is managed by the Toluca Lake Property Owners Association, a not-for-profit founded in 1934.

history

In 1893 a petition was filed with the US Postal Service to designate the area's first post office as the "Toluca Post Office". General Charles Forman, a wealthy local landowner and a proponent of the petition, later stated that he chose the name "Toluca" from a Paiute word meaning "fertile" or "beautiful" valley. Although it was part of a larger area traditionally named "Lankershim" after a colonel of the same name - including the Southern Pacific Railroad station and the post office opposite, opened in 1893 - Forman called his own ranch and the surrounding land "Toluca" ".

The development of the village is closely related to General Forman's biography. He started out as a simple worker and later became a rancher and eventually a timber contractor. In the late 1880s, he founded the Kern River Company, a power plant company that produced electricity on the Kern River and supplied it to Los Angeles . His holdings at the time included much of what is now Toluca Lake and the western part of the old and historic Marshland Lake now called Toluca Lake.

The Forman Toluca Lake Ranch had grown into a thriving producer of peaches , apples, and walnuts . In 1923, investors bought and developed the land as "Toluca Lake Park". The first attempt failed, but a new group of investors took over the company and named it "The Toluca Lake Company". The company soon changed the name to the simpler "Toluca Lake" and designed a city coat of arms on which a swan rests on undulating water.

The name Lankershim was considered for the city. Colonel JB Lankershim established the urban area of ​​Toluca on the eastern edge of his vast family estate in 1888. During the late 1890s, the city name Lankershim had replaced the name Toluca. Around 1927, the Hollywood Lure inspired local merchants to start a campaign to change the North Hollywood parish name. The original urban area of ​​Toluca is now part of Toluca Lake.

The newlyweds Ronald and Nancy Reagan in Toluca Lake, 1952

Aviator Amelia Earhart lived in Toluca Lake in Valley Spring Lane after marrying flamboyant publishing magnate George Palmer Putnam in 1931. The Spanish colonial building that still exists today features a tree in the front yard under which she signed the plan for her flight around the world. It settled in Toluca Lake because the best aircraft in the world were designed and built nearby at the Lockheed factory in Burbank . Entertainer Bob Hope moved to Toluca Lake in the late 1930s and lived there until his death in 2003 at the age of 100. In 1945 Frank Sinatra and his family moved to a home in Toluca Lake and spent their weekends at their Lone Palm Hotel in Palm Springs . The house was a little further down the street Earhart had lived on. Ronald Reagan , a former actor and future 40th President of the United States , married his second wife, Nancy Reagan , on March 4, 1952, at the home of fellow actor William Holden , who was also his best man .

politics

Toluca Lake is represented on the Los Angeles City Council by Tom LaBonge. NBC 4 weather forecasters Fritz Coleman is the Honorary Mayor of Toluca Lake.

In 2006, Toluca Lake homeowner groups mobilized against a proposed North Hollywood expansion by NBC Universal and the Thomas Properties Group. Their Metro Studio project covers more than 93,000 m² of land and would result in numerous employees having to leave the NBC site in Burbank . The project also includes a high-resolution and digital display board, like the one found in Times Square . It would be partially built on land that NBC Universal has leased to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Landmarks and distinctive places

Founded in 1949, Bob's Big Boy Restaurant of Burbank is the chain's oldest restaurant in America and is a California Point of Historic Interest. It is just beyond the limits of Toluca Lake, so it is often mistakenly referred to as being there. Toluca Lake was also home to the first IHOP restaurant in 1958 , although there is no longer a branch there.

The local Catholic Church, Saint Charles Borromeo, is frequented by some celebrities and has hosted a number of celebrity weddings and funerals, including the funeral of Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour . Choir director Paul Salamunovich was the former director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale . A number of condominiums and apartment complexes are located on Riverside Drive and Moorpark Way. The condominium complex was built there on Riverside Drive 10470 in 1974.

Personalities in Toluca Lake

Steve Abbott , actor Julie Andrews , actress and singer Jonathan Antin , hair stylist Drake Bell , actor and singer Jack Black , actor Brooke Burns , actress Ann Blyth , actress and singer Steve Carell , actor Peter Casey , television writer Bing Crosby , singer and actor Billy Ray Cyrus , singer and actor Miley Cyrus , actress and singer Jennifer Darling , actress and voice actress Doris Day , singer and actress Kat Dennings , actress Rick Dees , radio person Roy E. Disney , chief executive and producer Hilary Duff , singer and actress Kirsten Dunst , actress Zac Efron , actor WC Fields , actor Larry Fine , actor Raven-Symoné Pearman , singer, actor and producer Redd Foxx , comedian and actor

Andy García , actor Jennie Garth , actress Clique Girlz , singers (Destinee, Ariel, and Paris) Selena Gomez , actress and singer Harold Greene , News Anchorman Andy Griffith , actor Brett R. Henry , photographer and writer Steve Hofstetter , comedian and radio person Vanessa Anne Hudgens , actress and singer Jennifer Love Hewitt , actress and singer William Holden , actor Bob Hope , actor Moe Howard , actor Chris Jacobs , actor and television host Joe Jonas , actor and singer Kevin Jonas , actor and singer Nick Jonas , actor and singer Wayne Knight , actor George Lopez , actor and comedian Demi Lovato , actress and singer Leonard Maltin , film critic Garry Marshall , chief executive and producer Eric McCormack , actor Roger Miller , songwriter and singer

Jeffrey Dean Morgan , actor Wendell Niles , radio person and actor José Offerman , Major League Baseball player Markie Post , actress Jason Priestley , actor John Ratzenberger , actor Brenda Song , actress, singer, model and producer Frank Sinatra , singer and actor Kelly Sweet , singer Alan Thicke , actor Ashley Tisdale , actress and singer Forrest Tucker , actor Jim Tully , author Denzel Washington , actor Scott Weiland , singer and lyricist Lawrence Welk , band leader Dawn Wells , actress Eric West , cameraman Henry Winkler , actor Cary Woodworth , actor and musician Joanne Worley , actress and comedian Hayden Rorke , actor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} About Toluca Lake ( English ) Toluca Lake Chamber of Commerce. Archived from the original on January 22nd, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 21, 2009. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Toluca Lake (District) - Satellite view ( English ) In: Yahoo Maps . Retrieved February 21, 2009.
3. ↑ Toluca Lake (Body of water) - Satellite view ( English ) In: Yahoo Maps . Yahoo. Retrieved February 21, 2009.
4. ^ ^{A b c} Richard Bogy: A Bit of Toluca Lake History from Richard Bogy . Museum of the San Fernando Valley. July 13, 2007. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
5. ^ Toluca Lake City Profile . TolucaLake-ca.com. Archived from the original on December 5, 2004. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 1, 2005. 
6. ↑ [1] .
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Ronald Reagan Presidential Library: Historical Photographs . Reagan.UTexas.edu. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
9. ↑ Universal Moves to Develop Property , accessed March 4, 2019
10. ↑ RoadsidePeek.com - Bob's Big Boy ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ LAOkay.com - Bob's Big Boy
12. ↑ YouAreHere.com - Bob's Big Boy
13. ^ ^{A b} St. Charles Catholic Church - seeing-stars.com Retrieved January 6, 2009.

Web links

Commons : Toluca Lake  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Toluca Lake on the Mapping LA project website (English, not available in Europe)