Glendale California
The City of Glendale is part of Greater Los Angeles and is located to the east of the San Fernando Valley. It currently houses residents of about 200,000 on an area of 30 square miles. The Verdugo mountain range rises above the city.
Glendale was once ranch and farmland where fruit was commonly grown by the new American settlers. As the area became more established as a community a vote was taken in 1884 that chose the name of Glendale. Community spirit continued to grow and as more residential areas were set out in Glendale’s well planned city grid. An Improvement Society was organized at the turn of the 20th century which lobbied for a railroad connection and set about attracting business and residents to move to the area. The railroad came and the population tripled in a decade by 1930. Glendale was a popular and pleasant centre of local commerce and suburban residences with easy access to burgeoning industry centers of Film and Aviation.
Throughout the rest of the twentieth century Glendale stabilized its growth and increased its reputation as a great suburb of Los Angeles. A major makeover in the 1970’s kept it modernized and attracted large companies to the area with new large office developments and the extension of the 2 and 134 highways. A super mall was erected and by the turn of the millennium a new wave of immigrants found their way to Glendale boosting the areas cultural diversity. Development still continues today in Glendale with the recently opened Rick Caruso Project “the Americana at Brand”.
Notable businesses that started or have their headquarters in Glendale include; Bob’ Big Boy Hamburgers, Baskin Robbins Ice Cream, DreamWorks SKG, Walt Disney Imagineering, Nero AG, Nestle and IHOP.
A notable feature of Glendale, and the destination of many school trips, is the Forest Lawn Memorial Park where a number of big name celebrities are laid to rest in a unique space. You may recognize some of their names, for example; Humphrey Bogart, George Burns, Sammy Davis Jr., Walt Disney, Jean Harlow and Carol Lombard.
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