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My mother went to see John Ford's, "The Hurricane" with Jon Hall in 1938. She said when she walked out of the theater the storm outside was worse than the one on the movie screen.
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In 1924 Heffron, St John and McCray subdivided 151 acres of the Foreman Rancho creating the area called Toluca Lake Park. McCray was also one of the founders of the Lakeside Golf Club, which purchased 125 of the acres including 50 acres fronting the lake. The original architecture was primarily period revival including Spanish and French Normandy. Lake Toluca remained natural until the 1938 floods when a concrete flood control channel was built. Lapl
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Chas Freiburg Ranch in early Toluca Lake. Present site of the Lakeside Golf Club.
Toluca Lake, ca 1930
1938 Flood Damage
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Cables have been strung from the top of the bank of the river down into it and a group of people seem to be pulling something up, near a house that has collapsed. Although Schultheis calls this North Hollywood, it might be the area where 10 houses washed into the river in Toluca Lake at the same time that the Lankershim Bridge collapsed, because that area was called North Hollywood in the contemporary papers.
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Circa 1939
1945
1941 Nearby "Toluca Woods" / Burbank
1939 - Facade of (since demolished) home of director Norman Mcleod 10010 Toluca Lake Ave.
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