Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States.Located 7 miles (11 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank has a population of 107,337. [8]
All Burbank-bound lines serve the Downtown Burbank Metrolink station. Metro route 222 connects to the Universal City station. The Burbank Orange bus connects to North Hollywood station. Amtrak's Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner serve the Burbank Airport–South station located south of the airport. The train station is a short walk from ...
Burbank City Hall is the site of the municipal government of Burbank, California, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] Designed by architects William Allen and W. George Lutzi in the Moderne or Art Deco style, ground was broken in February 1941 and construction was completed in 1943. [3]
Burbank combined his properties into a nearly 9,000-acre (36 km 2) cattle ranch. Burbank sold his holdings in 1886 to Los Angeles land speculators who formed the "Providencia Land, Water & Development Company", with Burbank as one of the directors. The land was surveyed and a business district was laid out, surrounded by residential lots.
In 1917 Watt L. Moreland was planning to move his business to Alhambra, California. When Burbank city officials heard about this news they offered Moreland 25 acres (100,000 m 2) of land free of cost, located on the corner of San Fernando Blvd. and Alameda Ave. The city of Burbank raised $25,000 to pay for the land, buildings were constructed ...
Gary Bandy, who died at 80 from cardiovascular problems in October 2021, transformed his family's Burbank-based business "from a million- dollar-a-year company into a $14-million-a-year company ...
Victory Boulevard is a major mostly east–west arterial road that runs for 25 miles (40 km) traversing almost the entire length of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles and Burbank, California. About two miles of the boulevard runs north-south before reaching its eastern terminus.
A view of Brownstone Street on the former Columbia Ranch, Burbank. The Warner Bros. Ranch (formerly called the Columbia Ranch) is a movie ranch located at 411 North Hollywood Way in Burbank, California. Opened in the 1930s, it was used as the backdrop for films and television shows by Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros.