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Balboa Boulevard was named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa, a Spanish explorer who with his crew was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.Several of the San Fernando Valley's north-south streets were originally named after historic explorers, including Balboa, De Soto, Alvarado, Cabrillo, Cortez, and Diaz, but Balboa Boulevard and De Soto Avenue are the only street names ...
Sherwood Forest is located in the central area of the San Fernando Valley region in the City of Los Angeles; it is within the Northridge South Neighborhood Council District. [2] The neighborhood is bounded by Nordhoff Street in the north, Balboa Boulevard in the east, the Southern Pacific Railroad in the south, and Lindley Avenue in the west. [3]
Northridge is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles. ... 9501 Balboa Boulevard; First Presbyterian Church of Granada Hill ...
The Northridge East Neighborhood Council supported the petition; [64] meanwhile, North Hills West opposed the renaming, stating that property values effects would be minimal and insignificant, that Woodley Hill is a desirable area along with western North Hills and that it would turn Woodley Hill into a less desirable part of Northridge, that ...
From west to east, it travels through Chatsworth, Northridge, North Hills, and Panorama City, and into Arleta. [1] Nordhoff also marks the northern boundary separating Northridge from Sherwood Forest. [2] The street is four lanes or more for almost its entire length, and it contains a gap at Corbin Avenue, although the gap is bridged by ...
Lake Balboa is flanked on the north by Northridge, on the east by Van Nuys, on the south by the Sepulveda Basin and on the west by Reseda. [3] Its street and other boundaries are Roscoe Boulevard on the north, Balboa Place, the Van Nuys Airport, Hayvenhurst Avenue and Odessa Avenue on the east, Victory Boulevard on the south and White Oak Avenue on the west.
The area now known as Reseda was inhabited by Native Americans of the Tongva tribe who lived close to the Los Angeles River. [1]In 1909 the Suburban Homes Company, a syndicate led by H. J. Whitley, general manager of the Board of Control, Harry Chandler, H.G. Otis, M.H. Sherman and O.F. Brandt purchased 48,000 acres of the Farming and Milling Company for $2,500,000. [2]
State Route 118 (SR 118) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs west to east through Ventura and Los Angeles counties. It travels from State Route 126 at the eastern edge of Ventura immediately northwest of Saticoy, then through Saticoy, in Ventura County east to Interstate 210 near Lake View Terrace in Los Angeles.