Dec 28, 2017

LoveSanFernandoValley.com is dedicated to you enjoying the 4th largest unofficial US city. From highlighting activities, places to eat, famous citizens, and local history, there’s also a column about the first two Americans to end up here in 1818 (they were pirates!) Read all about them under El Pueblo.

SFV Granny attended a seminar at this hotel in Burbank, built by actress Beverly Garland in 1972 (there was one not far from us when we lived in Sacramento years ago).  I only knew Garland from her role on the TV show My Three Sons and thought it interesting in her later years that she had her own hotel chain.  This hotel is a pleasant surprise, as soon as you...

Jun 14, 2016

We had dinner at one of the big Chinese chains last month, and boy were we disappointed. The food was poor, as was the service. I’d been thinking we definitely needed to change the flavor. So when SFV Granny was in Reseda, she popped into the Great Wall on Sherman Way for a big take- out order. We can always count on delicious flavors and gracious service in...

Jun 6, 2016

This next weekend — June 12 — is the third Sunday of the month. That means you can visit a little piece of the Magic Kingdom! Or where some of the ideas for model trains in the kingdom were being worked out by Walt Disney in this little studio. The barn was moved to Griffith Park from Disney’s home in Holmby Hills. As one author has dubbed it, it’s now the...

Jun 5, 2016

The dogs and SFV Granny headed to the little remnant lake of what used to be a huge lake in front of Hansen Dam in Lake View Terrace (generations learned to sail here). We wanted to see how much water was left before the hot weather evaporates it. The basin is crisscrossed with miles of trails through the riparian environment. Sunday afternoon brings out...