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Cut & paste from a Wikipedia article, and not even edit the citation stub points? Hmmmm, and you call other users lazy? Weak.

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Why is this entry allowed to use blantanly copyrightened movie stills in it's entry photobook? Copyright photos are NOT allowed on this siet...Isn't that not allowed? Why are they still here, they should be removed by staff.

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Platt Ranch (Closed) Name through much of the 20th century for 1,100 acres in the vicinity of Bell Canyon that was formerly Rancho El Escorpion, and later was known as Cloverland Ranch. Today it is part of West Hills. George E. Platt was president of Los Angeles Creamery Co.

Warner Bros. movie ranch (Closed) Warner Brothers began buying up land in the Calabasas area in 1936 and amassed 2,800 acres. This was the studio's location ranch where films such as National Velvet were shot. The studio sold the land in 1959, and part of it became the Warner Center area of Woodland Hills.

Villa Cabrini (Closed) School for girls named for Mother Cabrini, the saint of immigrants who worked and lived on the land in the early 1900s, was on Glenoaks Blvd. on the border between Burbank and Sun Valley. After the school closed in 1970 the site was a temporary campus of the California Institute of the Arts and now houses Woodbury University.

Van Nuys Air National Guard (Closed) At the outbreak of World War II, Metropolitan Field on Woodley Avenue was rechristened as Van Nuys Army Airfield. Among the units stationed there was the 115th Observation Squadron, a National Guard unit that moved from the airfield at Griffith Park. After the war, the base became Van Nuys Airport and the air national guard function moved to quarters on Balboa Boulevard. The 146th Tactical Fighter Wing flew F-86A Sabre jets until noise complaints from the new suburbs helped push them out in 1960. During the Vietnam War, heavy C-97 Stratofreighters flew missions to Asia from Van Nuys. The unit was renamed the 146th Tactical Airlift Wing and in 1990 completed a move to Channel Islands Air National Guard Station in Ventura County. The Van Nuys base is now being torn down.

Valley Music Theater (Closed) The theater at 20600 Ventura Boulevard was supposed to be the first local performing arts hall with serious ambitions. Designed as theater in the round, it was built by pouring a concrete dome over a dirt mound, then excavating away the soil. Bob Hope and other local celebrities backed the venture, which opened July 6, 1964, with a gala premiere of The Sound of Music. When legit theater didn't catch on, rock music was tried. On February 22, 1967, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Doors put on a memorable show. Boxing matches were tried, but in 1980 the theater became a Jehovah's Witness assembly hall. In 2004 the church sold to a developer who hopes to build condos and retail on the site.

Tarzana Hill (Closed) Just east of Reseda Boulevard at Tarzana Drive, the knoll served as a local landmark. On top of the hill Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, owner of the L.A. Times, built a hacienda he called Mil Flores. On the hill he planted a grove of trees from several continents. In 1919 the 550 acres were sold to Edgar Rice Burroughs, who named the spread Tarzana Ranch. Burroughs built the Valley's first swimming pool and helped found El Caballero Country Club. Cedar Hills Nursery was located on the hill for many years. In the 1994 Northridge earthquake, a sensor mounted on the hill recorded the greatest ground shaking ever detected. Bulldozers finally cut down a large swath of the knoll in 2001 for a new housing tract.

Schlitz brewery (Closed) Schlitz opened its state-of-the-art 35-acre brewery at 7321 Woodman Avenue in Van Nuys in 1954.

Rondelli's (Closed) Italian restaurant of ill repute was at 13359 Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks. Mobster Mickey Cohen was present at the gangland execution of Jack (The Enforcer) Whalen in 1959.

Prisoner of War camp (Closed) During World War II, a compound for holding German, Italian and Japanese POWs was located along the L.A. River in Griffith Park where the Traveltown Museum is today. Before the war Camp Griffith Park was at times a Civilian Conservation Corps facility, a boy's camp and a drunk farm for Los Angeles city inmates.

Also home of many movie/TV/Commercial filming locations: http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Verdugo_HS/j4fun/location/

Northridge Farms The big Northridge breeding ranch for thoroughbred horses sprawled west and north from the intersection of Reseda Boulevard and Lassen Street, with its entry at 10127 Reseda Blvd.

Nike missile sites From the mid-1950s into the '60s, Nike and Hercules missiles protected the Valley and its many defense plants from attack. Four sites could be easily observed. In the Santa Susana Mountains, a missile battery designated as LA88 could be seen in upper Browns Canyon from 1956 to 1965, and its command center was visible on Oat Mountain. A second battery -- with live missiles right amid the suburbs -- known as LA96 operated at 15990 Victory Boulevard in Van Nuys from 1957 to 1971. Its observation post was in the Santa Monica Mountains above Tarzana, along Mulholland Drive on San Vicente Mountain. Decommissioned buildings or remnants remain at each site.

McKinley Home for Boys The grounds of the facility for boys from broken homes was at 13840 Riverside Dr. on land where Sherman Oaks Fashion Square is now located.

Marwyck ranch The thoroughbred breeding ranch of Zeppo Marx and Barbara Stanwyck was along Reseda Blvd. and Devonshire Street. A Paul Williams-designed house that was Stanwyck's, and later belonged to actor Jack Oakie, remains on Devonshire and is currently under the control of the University of Southern California.