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Welcome to the San Fernando Valley Conference and Visitors Bureau Official Web Site!
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Travel Town Museum
The original intention of
this this Griffith Park Museum was to be a "railroad
petting zoo," an opportunity for the children of Los
Angeles to "imagineer" themselves as engineers. The
concept of a combined transportation museum and
recreation center blossomed -- enjoy it today.
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Stoney Point
Prepare to spend hours of discovery on this hike at
Stoney Point in Chatsworth. Boulders merge together to
form caves, dens, and alcoves that beg to be explored.
Located at Topanga Canyon Boulevard between Chatsworth
Street and the 118 Freeway, a huge boulder at the top of
the mountain is a famous landmark called Stoney Point.
Mountain climbers come here to learn and practice.
Hikers of all sorts come to play. |
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Campo de Cahuenga
Located at 3919 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood. the
historic monument is the site of the signing of the
Treaty of Cahuenga in January 1847. This document was
instrumental in ending the conflict over the southwest
territory between United States and Mexico. The building
faccedilade is a replica of the adobe that stood on the
site at the time of the signing. The grounds contain
numerous plaques and monuments dedicated to historic
figures. |
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Los Encinos State Historic Park
Los Encinos, at the corner of Balboa and Ventura
boulevards in Encino was the hub of human habitation in
the Southern San Fernando Valley until the late 19th
Century. This five acre park is blessed with a natural
spring, the water of which was reputed to be so sweet
that animals would come for miles to drink from it.
Because of the ready source of water, Indians of the
tribe now called the "Gabrielino", "Fernandeno" or "Tongva"
lived at the site of the park for hundreds, and perhaps
thousands of years. More Information (use link
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San Fernando Mission
San Fernando Mission Rey de Espana, seventeenth of the
twenty-one missions founded by the Franciscans, was
established on September 8, 1797. Its location was
ideal, for it was in fertile country, and it was to
become one of the major supply sources for the pueblo of
Los Angeles (22 miles away) as it grew. Today, the
convent buildings dating to the mission days remain. The
church, damaged severely in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake,
was demolished, and an exact replica built. |
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NoHo Arts District
The NoHo Arts District in
North
Hollywood,
California is “Where the Arts are Made.” This
one-square mile community is filled with an eclectic
array of entertainment options for the artist, arts
lover and the art curious.
Due to its close proximity to
Hollywood, NoHo is filled with the “behind the scenes”
partners that help make movie magic. Studios and
productions come to NoHo for our costume companies,
makeup artists, special effects companies, photo
studios, etc. |
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Metro Orange Line Art Tour
Metro has initiated a number of art projects which
enhance the transit experience for over 1 million daily
bus riders. Projects have included a series of photo
essay bus cards, live poetry readings at bus stops,
collectible bookmarks, and art enhancements to Metro
Customer Service/Ticket Centers. The Metro Orange Line,
a 14-mile dedicated busway, represents the collective
effort of artists, design professionals and community
members brought together in the design of stations,
plazas and landscaping to enhance the passenger’s
experience. |
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The Andres Pico
Adobe is the second oldest Adobe home in the City of Los
Angeles! The Adobe is managed by the San Fernando
Valley Historical Society, which restored the interior
and operates a multi-program to form an active life for
the Adobe. The Adobe is unique - a "living museum" -
since besides its regular open hours, it is used for
many affairs: the Society's monthly meetings (open to
all), weddings, receptions, breakfasts, dinners,
picnics, etc. Two special affairs are "Rancho Days",
depicting early California living by exhibit,
demonstrations, food, etc., held on the third Sunday of
September; and Las Posadas, the enactment of the Mexican
Christmas procession on the Saturday before Christmas |
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This two story ranch house in Canoga Park is a
remembrance of the ranching days and agricultural past
of the San Fernando Valley. The large structure located
in Shadow Ranch Park is a hybrid of traditional,
Southern California styles: rancho adobe construction
having been reworked and remodeled with redwood
additions and architectural details and components. |
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Burbank Historical Society
The Burbank
Historical Society was founded in 1973 by a group of
individuals who were committed to collecting and
preserving the rich history of the community of Burbank.
Incorporated in 1975, the Society operates the Gordon R.
Howard Museum which includes an 1887 Victorian house, a
memorabilia building including a Lockheed Aviation
display and other historical artifacts, a vintage
vehicle building, a salon and the Ray Sence addition in
which 19th century era rooms are shown. |
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For over twenty years the heavy wooden doors of
Bolton Hall in Tujunga were tightly secured. The solid
stone building, once the heart of a fledgling community,
came to life once more in 1980, and a cherished dream
was realized by the Little Landers Historical Society.
Soon after the turn of the century Glorietta Heights
(located on part of the Mexican land grant of Rancho
Tujunga) came to the attention of Marshall Hartranft, a
land developer who engaged William E. Smythe, and editor
who recognized the miracle of irrigation to publicize
the upper slopes of the chaparral-covered pass.
Believing that families settling on an acre or two of
land could support themselves and prosper, Smythe
founded a movement known as "Little Lands" and had
already established colonies in san Ysidro, Hayworth
Heath and Cupertino. |
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/The Orcutt
Ranch, formally called Rancho Sombra del Roble, was the
vacation and retirement estate of William Warren Orcutt
and his wife Mary Logan Orcutt in Canoga Park. The adobe
residence, as well as the estate’s garden, ranch
structures, oak trees, and citrus orchard have historic
significance because of the distinction of its owner
W.W. Orcutt, pioneer of the oil production industry in
California and discoverer of the prehistoric fossils at
the LaBrea Tar Pits. |
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Studio
City Walk
of Fame
Studio City got its
name from the motion picture and television studio
that’s been here since the 1920’s. As a matter of fact,
the studio celebrated its 75 anniversary in 2003! In
order to commemorate the history of Studio City, the
SCIA created the "Studio City Walk of Fame." Three
hundred granite stones have been placed into the
sidewalk with the names of films and television shows
that were made in exclusively in Studio City over the
last 75 years. Take a stroll through the heart of
Studio City and relive the memories of your favorite
films and television shows! |
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The Japanese Garden
Suiho En the
garden of water and fragrance is a 6.5 acre authentic
Japanese garden fashioned after “stroll gardens”
constructed during the 18th and 19th centuries for
Japanese Feudal lords. Our facility located in Van Nuys
is unique in that it incorporates three classical
designs: a dry
karensansui, a
wet garden with promenade
chisen, and an
authentic tea ceremony garden incorporating a 4.5 tatami
mat tea room. |
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Los Angeles Equestrian Center
Ask any horse lover: the Los Angeles Equestrian Center
in Burbank is the premier equine facility of its kind. A
pleasing and professionally operated multi-use facility
in Southern California with everything the discerning
horse owner and event organizer could ask for and more.
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The Homestead Acre is the name given to a 1.3 acre
site within Chatsworth Park South containing a quit,
old-fashioned redwood bungalow surrounded by gardens,
many fruit trees and fragrant rose bushes. It is all
that is left of a once 230 acre California ranch. Owned
by the Los Angeles City Department of Recreation and
Parks, it is maintained by the Chatsworth Historical
Society as conservators. |
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Walk of Hearts
The Walk of Hearts award is the brainchild of one of our
civic leaders, Joseph Andrews, an active business member
and current President of the Canoga Park/West Hills
Chamber of Commerce. Inspired by the hard work and
dedication of his mother, who worked at one of the
schools he attended, and the positive influence that
certain teachers had during his formative years, Joe
Andrews created the WALK OF HEARTS. A way of bringing
overdue recognition to those individuals who have the
unique ability to inspire, mold and perhaps - with a
word or two of encouragement—change a life forever.
Teachers. |
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The Doctor's House
The Doctors' House, an authentically restored Queen
Anne-Eastlake style home built about 1888, is the result
of a community-wide endeavor to preserve a reminder of
Glendale's earliest days. The two story house originally
stood at 921 East Wilson Avenue. It became known as The
Doctors' House because it was residence and office space
for three prominent early Glendale physicians. When it
was threatened with demolition in 1979, citizens,
including the newly reconstituted Glendale Historical
Society, banded together to relocate it to Brand Park.
They then restored the house to its late 19th century
appearance, and furnished and decorated it in the style
of the period. |
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The
Nethercutt Collection
The Nethercutt Collection, located in Sylmar, is a
world-class treasure house of prize-winning automobiles,
automobilia, mechanical musical instruments, and antique
furniture. The heart of this "functional fine art"
collection contains over 200 meticulously restored
American and European automobiles dating from 1898 to
1982. |
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Lopez Adobe
The property
was acquired from the King of Spain via a grant to
DeCelis. The chain of title deed is on display in the
dining room of the adobe. An upper apartment was the
home of a daughter, Kate Lopez Millen from 1931 until
her death in 1961. Her children sold the adobe to the
City of San Fernando in 1970. This purchase was made
possible by a Historical Preservation grant, given to
save the house from destruction. The 1971 earthquake did
not do too much structural damage and, in 1974, it was
restored as the original building for use as an early
historical site. |
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Leonis Adobe Museum
As Los Angeles City Cultural Landmark #1, the Leonis
Adobe Museum is dedicated to restoring, preserving,
and sharing the last of the old west. Here, you can
experience California ranch life of the late
1800s…visit a Victorian-style early Los Angeles home…
see what a jail was like in the Wild West…enjoy a
picnic in picturesque Calabasas Park with its antique
ironwork and lovely gardens.
The Leonis
Adobe was the home of Miguel Leonis, known as the King
of Calabasas. The museum features his authentically
furnished two-story Monterey-style adobe with original
buildings, period livestock, gardens and a
vineyard--all part of Leonis' recreated ranch where he
once ruled the territory.
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Griffith Park
With
over 4,210 acres of both natural chapparal-covered
terrain and landscaped parkland and picnic areas,
Griffith Park is the largest municipal park with urban
wilderness area in the United States. Situated in the
eastern Santa Monica Mountain range, the Park’s
elevations range from 384 to 1,625 feet above see level.
With an arid climate, the Park’s plant communities vary
from coastal sage scrub, oak and walnut woodlands to
riparian vegetation with trees in the Park’s deep
canyons. |
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