{"id":8053,"date":"2016-12-24T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T01:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8053"},"modified":"2017-01-05T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T01:06:16","slug":"rural-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/24\/rural-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcet.org\/shows\/lost-la\/las-lost-valley-when-hollywood-was-the-pride-of-the-cahuenga-valley\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from KCET<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>L.A.\u2019s Lost Valley: When Hollywood Was &#8216;the Pride of the Cahuenga Valley&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcet.org\/author\/nathan-masters\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Masters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Panoramic view of Hollywood showing Orchard Street and Orange Drive, ca.1905\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcet.org\/sites\/kl\/files\/thumbnails\/image\/hollywood_c1905.jpeg\" alt=\"Panoramic view of Hollywood showing Orchard Street and Orange Drive, ca.1905\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Panoramic view of Hollywood showing Orchard Street and Orange Drive, circa\u00a01905.\u00a0Courtesy of the USC Libraries \u2013 California Historical Society Collection. [<a href=\"http:\/\/digitallibrary.usc.edu\/cdm\/singleitem\/collection\/p15799coll65\/id\/4107\/rec\/11\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/digitallibrary.usc.edu\/cdm\/singleitem\/collection\/p15799coll65\/id\/4107\/rec\/11\">source<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Santa Monica Mountains loom large in L.A.\u2019s cultural topography, dividing the city into \u201cthe Valley&#8221; to their north and a sprawling coastal plain to their south.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the coastal plain in Hollywood or Beverly Hills would never mistake their homes as valley communities.<\/p>\n<p>A century ago, however, they were.<\/p>\n<p>From the early 1880s through the 1910s,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcet.org\/lost-la\/the-lost-wetlands-of-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\">the broad drainage basin of the Ballona Creek<\/a>\u00a0between the Santa Monica Mountains and Baldwin Hills\u00a0was commonly known as the Cahuenga Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Likely invented by area boosters, the Cahuenga Valley name first entered the regional lexicon when farmers discovered a frost-free belt along the base of the Santa Monica Mountains. Soon, Cahuenga Valley became renowned as a horticultural wonderland where bananas ripened, lemons glowed, and delicate vegetables were harvested early in winter for frostbitten markets in Denver and Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Later, after the real estate boom of the 1880s deposited townsites like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/socal-focus\/photos-from-prospect-weyse-to-hollywood-vine\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/shows\/lost-la\/hooray-forcolegrove-remembering-hollywoods-forgotten-neighbor\" target=\"_blank\">Colegrove<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/lost-la\/how-the-town-of-sherman-became-the-city-of-west-hollywood\" target=\"_blank\">Sherman<\/a>\u00a0in the area, &#8220;Cahuenga Valley&#8221; became shorthand for a suburban subregion, an equal of the San Fernando, San Gabriel, and Pomona valleys. As with these other valleys, agricultural riches inspired the boosters\u2019 suburban dreams.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcet.org\/shows\/lost-la\/las-lost-valley-when-hollywood-was-the-pride-of-the-cahuenga-valley\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at KCET<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from KCET L.A.\u2019s Lost Valley: When Hollywood Was &#8216;the Pride of the Cahuenga Valley&#8217; by Nathan Masters Panoramic view of Hollywood showing Orchard Street and Orange Drive, circa\u00a01905.\u00a0Courtesy of the USC Libraries \u2013 California Historical Society Collection. [source] The Santa Monica Mountains loom large in L.A.\u2019s cultural topography, dividing the city into \u201cthe Valley&#8221; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}