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Crescenta Valley: La Crescenta
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The Crescenta Valley is a kind of secret little valley located in Los Angeles County, California. It is North of Burbank, Van Nuys, and Glendale. It is physically separated from most of the urban mass of Los Angeles County by the Verdugo Mountains. It includes the communities of La Crescenta, Montrose, Verdugo City, and parts of Tujunga, Sunland, Flintridge-La Cañada, and Glendale. It is a narrow, pretty valley between the Verdugo Mountains and the main Coastal Mountain Range (Angeles National Forest). Being small communities, there is not an organized running pathway on the habitated area.
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La Crescenta's school bell first rang students to school from across the valley in 1890. It was placed in storage from 1948 until 1976, when it was re-hung and dedicated with a plaque listing the names of the kids in the first class at La Crescenta Elementary. The bell is now rung once a year in June by the graduating students.
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Colonel Theodore Pickens was one of the first settlers in Crescenta Valley, and a street, a mountain peak and a canyon are named for him. Pickens Canyon runs next to Mountain Avenue School in La Crescenta and crosses Foothill Boulevard at Briggs Avenue. In 1843, a Mexican soldier named Ignacio Coronel obtained the land east of Pickens Canyon and named it "Rancho La Ca–ada." In 1871, Col. Pickens settled in the foothills north of La Ca–ada in the area now called "Briggs Terrace" at the top of Briggs Avenue.
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This structure is the last remnant of a short-lived streetcar line that connected the Crescenta Valley with Glendale and Los Angeles. It was the barn that housed the trolleys that ran up the median of Verdugo Road, around the curve along Montrose Ave., terminating at Pennsylvania. The line was characterized by the use of some single-truck cars, called "dinkys" by the locals, that pitched and rolled like a small boat at sea. This line only ran from 1914 until 1930.
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Author Bio: Mike Lawler is the president of the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley. Robert Newcombe is a writer who lives in the first house built on the hills east of Montrose, overlooking the Crescenta Valley. Together they have gathered more than 200 vintage photographs from their collections and those of the society and the Glendale Public Library to produce this evocative volume.
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Circumstances:On June 26, 1983, the remains of an unidentified female were located in an abandoned house trailer on Little Tujunga Canyon Drive in Crescenta Valley, California. The decedent had blonde hair and was estimated to be between 16 and 20 years of age. She had a thin, small build. She wore a gold metal chain with a small rectangular charm that had “14K GOLD” inscribed on it. The necklace and chain are shown in the photo at left. The decedent was last seen alive near Sepulveda and Ventura Boulevards in the early morning hours of June 26, 1983.
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