CHANDLER ART WALK & My Mom called it " VALLEY PLEASURE"...

• CHANDLER BOULEVARD
NOHO ART WALK

By Louis Elovitz
Digital Journalist

The Railroad Right of Way east to west in the
San Fernando Valley has been Chandler Blvd.
I know the RED CAR rode it's rails and I myself
remember freight trains moving though it.

Gone are the RED CARS, gone are the freight trains.
Hello METRO Subway Station. Now, going to the west
is the Orange Line, a concrete busway with futuristic vehicles.+


buses old
and new



Bus wise, I remember sitting on noisy hot tin can buses,
that was when I was young in the late 50's.
Don't get me wrong, I loved those buses,
and the RED CARS that still were running
from Downtown to Long Beach.



pacific electric red car




Going towards Burbank this Railway Right of Way
has been turned into a community event.
Families walking, skaters, bicyclers, dogs...





Burbank











Walkways, flowers, grass, benches
all line this form trainway.




If you go to the east most portion
it stops a block before Victory Blvd.
and you can still see a
stretch of the old Railroad.


-NOHO ART WALKWAY COMPLETION

I am happy to announce that NoHo has just finished
our addition continuing the same
Bike and Pedestrian Way
from Vineland east to Clyborn
at the Burbank city line.





NoHo

















Many of the warehouses and
businesses that line the tracks in NoHo have various art
painted on the building sides that used to face the tracks,
and they now line this new community walk/bikeway.















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• VALLEY PLAZA MEMORIES

By Louis Elovitz
Digital Journalist

Yes, my Mom called this old fashioned shopping center
the Valley Pleasure, and we would roam all over each
section she would be shopping in. That could include
this area on the north most portion off Laurel Cyn Blvd,
Here is that remainder of Valley Plaza.
Radio Shack and Smart & Final occupy a building the I
say was an original inside mall. The Radio Shack area
where shops which you would enter right inside the
Thriftimart Market. As you walked in to the right was
a kiosk like shoe repair. There was also a Chef's
Chicken BBQ. Further north the other buildings
included DRUCKERS Deli, a Jewish Bakery
and the Thrifty Drug with a fountain at the back.
The market at Archwood was originally called
Mc Donald's Market with a Scotsman logo.






























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