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La Crescenta

Author: Mike Lawler

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780738530741

Though it has specific geographic borders, La Crescenta is politically split, straddling portions of unincorporated Los Angeles County, Glendale, and even a portion of Los Angeles itself. The Tongva Indians roamed the valley for hundreds of years until cattlemen moved in and loggers harvested the tall trees in the canyons above. Then came orchards, sanitariums, resort hotels, and, ultimately, suburban sprawl. These bucolic hills belied a penchant for archly conservative politics, but the peace of the valley was shattered not by Nazis or Klansmen, but rather by forces of nature: windstorms, fires, earthquakes, and, most severely, flash floods. In his book Man in Control of Nature, naturalist John McPhee wrote extensively about the La Crescenta floods. Despite the turbulence, La Crescenta has evolved into a quiet bedroom community in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

La Crescenta

Author: La Crescenta Chamber of Commerce

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 16

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La Canada

Author: Yana Ungermann-Marshall

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780738531106

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The city of La CaÂ±ada Flintridge is made up of the nearly century-long communities of La CaÂ±ada--once a mosaic of ranchlands honeycombed with vineyards and olive and citrus groves--and Flintridge, an affluent enclave and health resort in the early 1900s. La CaÂ±ada's various neighborhoods were renamed La CaÂ±ada Flintridge during the city's incorporation in 1976. Known for its excellent schools and as a gateway to the Angeles National Forest, La CaÂ±ada is also home to Descanso Gardens, an internationally known 165-acre botanical garden sold to Los Angeles County by former Los Angeles Daily News tycoon Manchester Boddy, and to NASA's esteemed Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), located on the city's northwest border.

Murder & Mayhem in the Crescenta Valley

Author: Gary Keyes

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1625840675

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The pleasant neighborhoods of the Crescenta Valley offer no hint of the many violent and heinous crimes that have occurred between the San Gabriel and Verdugo Mountains. But ties to such macabre episodes as the Onion Field murder and the search for the Hillside Strangler left lasting scars here. Infamous criminals such as mafia boss Joe "Iron Man" Ardizzone, red-light bandit Caryl Chessman and accused yacht bomber Beulah Overell have left a black eye on La Cresecenta's history--not to mention the "Rattlesnake Murder," "Female Bluebeard" and "Santa Claus Killer." Join historians Gary Keyes and Mike Lawler as they expose the crimes and criminals that have inflicted murder and mayhem in Glendale, La Crescenta, Montrose and La Canada Flintridge.

La Crescenta

Author: June Dougherty

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 31

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Wicked Crescenta Valley

Author: Gary Keyes

Publisher: Wicked

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781626193062

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"A history of the noteworthy transgressions and crimes committed over the years in the Crescenta Valley"--

Frontier Days in Crescenta Valley

Author: Jo Anne Sadler

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1625850425

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Modern Crescenta Valley practically defines the notion of quiet suburbia with its lovely homes and tree-lined streets. Yet the communities that lie north of Los Angeles between the Verdugo and San Gabriel Mountains once formed a vast, isolated, treeless, windstorm-swept dell. The settlers who stayed in this valley found day-to-day subsistence challenging. They farmed, hunted, tried bee ranching, gathered greasewood, cultivated vineyards and dodged rattlesnakes. As settlement in the area continued to develop, such refinements as literature and photography flourished. Join author Jo Anne Sadler as she brings the Valley's frontier days to life, recounting such quirks as a visit from a "rainmaker" and the reasons behind the construction of the gaudy local landmark the Gould Castle.