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Tarzana
was "created" when
Edgar Rice Burroughs
bought 540 acres for a
country house
in the
San Fernando Valley
in the foothills of the
Santa Monica Mountains
. This was way back on March 1, 1919, 7 years after Burroughs wrote his first
Tarzan
story
. The small town
surrounding
Burroughs's
ranch
was
petitioning
for a
post-office
, something they had long needed, but they needed an
officia
l name and Tarzana was
voted
in. By december of 1930 they had their post-office.And through the rest of the 1930's Tarzana was known as the "
Heart of Ventura Boulevard
". Tarzana grew then only very slightly during the 30's and 40's but with a
post-war boom
it slowly began to lose it's
farms
and create small
homes
and
apartment buildings
.
Ok,
funny story
. I live in one of those apartment buildings in Tazana, and I was over in the
local library
the other day and was surprised to find that
the Tarzana library had no books about Tarzan
. So I contacted
Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.
or something and they took care of it, loading up the library with a
complete collection
of
Tarzan books
.
Back to history. Tarzana is one of the
oldest
communities
in the San Fernando Valley (if you've ever heard someone use the term "valley girl", that's it). In 1769 Tarzana was the second community
Gaspar de Portola
(the first
white guy
in the valley)passed through. Then some
Fransiscan
Missionaries
turned it into part of their mission land. Tarzana was even built on
El Camino Real
(it's now
Ventura Boulevard
).
Nowadays, Tarzana's pretty big. The odd part is, half of it is really nice with a bunch of huge
mansions
and
country clubs
, and then the other side is like a
ghetto
with
gangsters
and
shootings
and
drug dealers
and
crap
. Too bad I live on the
gangster side
. I guess it's all part of being in
LA
.
And yes
Deborah909
was right. It is named after
Tarzan
.
printable version
chaos
San Fernando Valley
Tarzan
Old Peculier
Frank T.J. Mackey
Pollo Campero
Los Angeles County, California
Simi Valley
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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