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54-535: Western Costume Company is a costume company in North Hollywood, California which supplies costumes and costuming supplies to the film and TV industry. Founded in 1912 or 1913, it is one of the oldest businesses in the industry. Before founding Western Costume Company, L. L. Burns owned an Indian trading company in Los Angeles. His expertise on Native American culture and access to Native American artifacts made him

108-435: A Tataviam man, petitioned for and was granted a 1,000 vara tract of land northwest of the mission complex. Pedro Joaquín and thirty eight others were granted a large square league tract south of Samuel's tract. A partnership of three Tongva men, Tiburcio Cayo, Román, and Francisco Papabubaba, were granted Rancho Los Encinos . José Miguel Triunfo was granted a quarter square league parcel called Rancho Cahuenga , southeast of

162-495: A children's play area, and picnic tables, is in North Hollywood. Eighteen percent of North Hollywood residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, an average figure for both the city and the county. The percentage of the same-age residents with less than a high school diploma was high for the county. Schools within the North Hollywood boundaries are: North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Library

216-453: A frequent source for filmmakers looking to outfit their Western pictures. After one production, producer William Fox tried to return the goods he'd purchased for his film as he no longer needed them. Recognizing the industry's need for a rental business, L. L. Burns founded Western Costume Company in 1912, and named it after the genre of films it dressed. At the same time, Burns was also part owner of Burns & Revier Studio and Laboratory ,

270-679: A further B Line extension further into the Valley, Metro built the Metro G Line bus rapid transit . Its terminus is located across the street from the subway station . This expanded the station area into a transit hub , and many local and rapid buses now stop at the station. Proposals have been made to extend the B Line northeasterly to Bob Hope Airport in Burbank and the Downtown Burbank Metrolink station in downtown Burbank, or to extend it in

324-410: A hot summer Mediterranean Climate ( Köppen climate classification Csa). The 2000 U.S. census counted 77,848 residents in the 5.87-square-mile North Hollywood neighborhood—or 13,264 people per square mile, about an average population density for the city but among the highest for the county. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 87,241. In 2000, the median age for residents

378-493: A motion picture production space located in the stables of Hollywood realtor Jacob Stern. In 1913 Burns and his partner, Harry Revier, subleased the barn to Cecil B. DeMille for the film The Squaw Man . DeMille ultimately purchased the studio space for Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company , making it the home of what would soon become Paramount Pictures . Burns, now out of the studio game, also closed his trading goods store and focused solely on his costume company. He bought out

432-524: A northwesterly direction along Lankershim Boulevard and eventually to Sylmar. Neither project is currently funded nor is included in Metro's Long Term Transportation Plan. The North Hollywood to Pasadena Transit Corridor was approved by the Metro board April 28, 2022, and is expected to be completed by 2024. It has promised to provide faster bus service to Glendale and Pasadena. Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando After Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821,

486-570: A second auditorium and a community room; the gymnasium's capacity is 250 people. The Valley Plaza Recreation Center in North Hollywood includes an auditorium, barbecue pits, a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a 40-person community room, a lighted American football field, an indoor gymnasium without weights, an outdoor gymnasium without weights, picnic tables, lighted tennis courts, and unlighted volleyball courts. The Jamie Beth Slaven Park, an unstaffed pocket park with unlighted outdoor basketball courts,

540-453: A second request for Rancho San Francisco to governor Juan Bautista Alvarado , with whom he had ties, and it was approved by the governor on January 22, 1839. Del Valle was followed by Anastasio Carrillo who succeeded him as mayordomo on January 3, 1837, though Del Valle is reported to have held his position until March 1837. Another mayordomo, Pedro López, and his brother Francisco made a successful request to claim Rancho Tujunga , east of

594-434: Is bordered on the north by Sun Valley and on the northeast and east by Burbank . Toluca Lake borders North Hollywood on the southeast and south, and Studio City abuts it on the southwest. It is bordered by Valley Village and Valley Glen on the west. North Hollywood is not bordered by the neighborhood of Hollywood , as North Hollywood is approximately 6 mi (9.7 km) north of Hollywood. North Hollywood has

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648-578: Is located in North Hollywood. The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission approved the construction of the subway connecting North Hollywood to Hollywood, East Hollywood, Koreatown, Westlake and downtown Los Angeles along the Metro Rail Red Line in 1990. The decision followed the Los Angeles City Council unanimously endorsing North Hollywood as the northern terminal of the Red Line with

702-455: Is mostly in North Hollywood, with a portion in Valley Village . The park has an auditorium, lighted indoor baseball diamond courts, lighted outdoor baseball diamonds, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, lighted handball courts, picnic tables, an outdoor unheated seasonal pool, and lighted tennis courts. In addition the center has an indoor gymnasium which can be used as

756-675: The Los Angeles Metro . North Hollywood was established by the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company in 1887. It was first named "Toluca" before being renamed "Lankershim" in 1896 and finally "North Hollywood" in 1927. North Hollywood was once part of the vast landholdings of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España , which was confiscated by the government during the Mexican period of rule. A group of investors assembled as

810-655: The Mexican–American War , the Pico government sold the secularized lands from the Mission San Fernando to Eulogio de Celis on June 17, 1846, for $ 14,000. Eulogio de Celis, was a native of Spain , who had settled in California in 1836; he operated a hide trading business with Henry D. Fitch , Jonathan Temple and Abel Stearns , and was married to Josefa Argüello, daughter of ex-governor Luís Antonio Argüello . De Celis

864-713: The Santa Susana Mountains , on the west by the Simi Hills , on the east by Rancho Tujunga , and on the south by the Montañas de Portesuelo ( Santa Monica Mountains ). When the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando grant was patented in 1873, it was surveyed at nearly twenty six square leagues, the single largest land grant in California. Before the De Celis grant, Andrés Pico , brother of Governor Pío Pico, had leased

918-501: The 1880s, the San Fernando Farm Homestead Association was succeeded by the "Los Angeles Farm & Milling Company". After De Celis died in 1869, his son, Eulogio F. de Celis, returned from Spain to Los Angeles. In 1874, the heirs of Eulogio de Celis sold their northern half of Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando to northern Californians, California State Senator Charles Maclay and his partners George K. Porter,

972-520: The 1990s, the demographic changes had almost completely transformed the region. The North Hollywood shootout occurred in 1997, leaving 12 Los Angeles Police Department officers and eight civilians injured and the two armed robbers dead. The opening of North Hollywood station in 2000, establishment and success of the NoHo Arts District in the old "downtown", and repurposing of disused lots such as Laurel Plaza into NoHo West, has revitalized

1026-593: The Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company, purchasing 12,000 acres (49 km ) north of the Cahuenga Pass from the Lankershim Farming and Milling Company. Lankershim established a townsite which the residents named Toluca along the old road from Cahuenga Pass to San Fernando . On April 1, 1888, they offered ready-made small farms for sale, already planted with deep-rooted deciduous fruit and nut trees—mostly peaches, pears, apricots, and walnuts—that could survive

1080-887: The Mexican Congress passed a Decree for the Secularization of the Missions of the Californias on August 17, 1833, in an effort to prevent the influence of the formerly Spanish system in the California territories, allow secular use of the rich and valuable mission lands, and to legislate the emancipation of the indigenous mission wards . Governor José Figueroa officially secularized the San Fernando Rey de España Mission in 1834, appointing Lieutenant Antonio del Valle as comisionado in October to conduct its secularization and administer

1134-568: The Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando in 1845. In 1853, Andrés Pico acquired an undivided half interest, and Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando was split in half, along present-day Roscoe Boulevard, between Andrés Pico (who had the southern half of the ranch to the Santa Monica Mountains) and Eulogio de Celis (who had the northern half of the ranch to the Santa Susana Mountains). In debt, Andrés Pico had sold his southern half-interest in

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1188-592: The Rancho ex-Mission San Fernando to his brother Pío Pico in 1862. Pio Pico sold his half share of the Ex-San Fernando Mission land to Isaac Lankershim (operating as the "San Fernando Farm Homestead Association") in 1869. In 1873, Isaac Lankershim's son, James Boon Lankershim , and future son-in-law, Isaac Newton Van Nuys , moved to the San Fernando Valley and took over management of the property. During

1242-485: The San Fernando Farm Homestead Association purchased the southern half of the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando . The leading investor was Isaac Lankershim , a Northern California stockman and grain farmer, who was impressed by the Valley's wild oats and proposed to raise sheep on the property. In 1873, Isaac Lankershim's son and future son-in-law, James Boon Lankershim and Isaac Newton Van Nuys , moved to

1296-705: The San Fernando Valley and took over management of the property. Van Nuys thought the property could profitably grow wheat using the dryland farming technique developed on the Great Plains and leased land from the Association to test his theories. In time, the Lankershim property, under its third name, the Los Angeles Farming and Milling Company, would become the world's largest wheat-growing empire. In October 1887, J.B. Lankershim and eight other developers organized

1350-716: The Valley Plaza retail space is either empty, portion is now a middle school, and the Laurel Plaza site is under construction to become the NoHo West mixed-use development , which includes retail. By the late 1950s, many of the original owners were aging, and their children were moving to other areas. School integration in the subsequent years, blockbusting , and subsequent ethnic turmoil encouraged many remaining families to move out, who in turn were replaced with black and Hispanic families moving from Central and South Los Angeles . By

1404-408: The Valley to Chatsworth . The Chatsworth Limited made one freight stop a day at Toluca, though the depot bore the new name of Lankershim. With the post office across the street being called Toluca, controversy over the town's name continued, and the local ranchers used to quip, "Ship the merchandise to Lankershim, but bill it to Toluca." In 1896, under pressure from Lankershim, the post office at Toluca

1458-420: The church and sacristy were valued at $ 15,511, its 32,000 grapevines were worth $ 16,000, its 1,600 fruit trees were valued at $ 2,400, the mission's library of 191 volumes was worth $ 417, and the estate had credits worth $ 5,736. There were 6,000 head of large stock, 520 horses and mules, and 3,000 head of sheep; the average crop was 1,530, 940 of which were wheat, 470 corn, and 45 beans. The indigenous population of

1512-483: The farmers' profit margins, making their continued existence tenuous. When droughts hit the valley again, rather than face foreclosure, the most vulnerable farmers agreed to mortgage their holdings to the fruit packing company and banks in Los Angeles for the immediate future and vote on annexation. West Lankershim agreed to be annexed to the City of Los Angeles in 1919. Lankershim proper and non-proper joined in 1923. Much of

1566-472: The federal legislation that enabled the construction of the aqueduct prohibited Los Angeles from selling the water outside of the city limits. At first, resistance to the real-estate development and downtown business interests of Los Angeles remained strong enough to keep the small farmers unified in opposition to annexation. However, the fruit packing company interests were taken over by the Los Angeles interests. The two conspired to decrease prices and mitigate

1620-446: The final route having termini at Union Station and North Hollywood. The North Hollywood Metro Subway station opened in June 2000. Close to half a million people took advantage of free rides on the 17.4-mile (28.0 km) Red Line subway in its first weekend in operation. The station is the starting point for the B Line of the Metro subway, which cost $ 4.5 billion to build. Instead of

1674-520: The general public. North Hollywood, Los Angeles North Hollywood is a Los Angeles , California , neighborhood, located in the San Fernando Valley . The neighborhood contains the NoHo Arts District , El Portal Theater , several art galleries, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . The North Hollywood Metro Rail station is the northern terminus of the B Line subway on

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1728-428: The heads of several major studios who, faced with the prospect of losing an industry pillar, agreed to purchase the company. For the following 45 years, Western was co-owned by Warner Bros., RKO, 20th Century-Fox, Columbia, Universal, and Republic. In 1988, Paramount purchased Western with the intent to sell the company and keep the land it occupied; they were eager to expand the southern border of their lot. It seemed like

1782-674: The heart of North Hollywood. Since 2000, the community has been developing and undergoing many changes, thanks in large part to the formation of the 743-acre North Hollywood Development District and the subsequent NoHo Commons projects. In 2015, Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood was part of the first San Fernando Valley CicLAvia , an event sponsored by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in which major roads are temporarily closed to motorized vehicle traffic and used for recreational human-powered transport . North Hollywood

1836-520: The heart of the film industry, Western's new owners moved the company from downtown to Melrose Ave., directly adjacent to the Bronson Gate at Paramount. They sold the company after a couple of years to J.I. Schnitzer, a former RKO executive. Business boomed. Costume house workers began joining the I.A.T.S.E. in the late 1930s, and Western was fully unionized by 1942. Schnitzer struggled to cover his payroll, and his health had begun to fail. He approached

1890-592: The historic costume company would shutter, but a group of buyers stepped in just before it went to auction. The company relocated to a facility in North Hollywood, where it has resided since 1990. In addition to costume rentals, Western Costume houses four workrooms that produce custom-made hats, clothes, and shoes; a research library and archive; a costume supply store; fitting rooms; and dye areas. The company sells costumes used in well known films at auction from time to time. The company generally only deals with studios and filmmakers but occasionally it opens its doors to

1944-548: The land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim was filed with the United States Public Land Commission in 1852 and the land grant was patented to Eulogio de Celis in 1873. De Celis, with his wife and family, went back to Spain in 1854, where he died in 1869. The grant, which was supposed to contain fourteen square leagues, was bounded on the north by Rancho San Francisco and

1998-518: The late 1940s and 1950s the area saw the first department-store-anchored, auto-oriented shopping center in the Valley: Valley Plaza , covering both a development at Laurel Canyon at Victory boulevards but also a loose collection of other retail stores south along Laurel Canyon to Oxnard, including a branch of the May Co. , the second-largest suburban department store branch in the U.S. at the time. In

2052-668: The mid-1950s Valley Plaza claimed to be the largest shopping center on the West Coast of the United States and the third-largest in the country. It was difficult for the Lankershim retail district to compete and by 1980, most stores had closed including Rathbun's. The May Co. at the south end of the Valley Plaza shopping district built its own attached, enclosed mall, Laurel Plaza , opening in 1968. The last department of Valley Plaza's anchors, Sears , closed in 2019 as department store-anchored shopping centers lost favor. As of 2020, much of

2106-592: The mission had decreased to 541. Del Valle had an interest in owning the mission land. In 1833, he made a request to claim Rancho San Francisco , which had been an estancia of the San Fernando Mission in the Santa Clarita Valley ; the missionaries opposed the claim and they filed a protest which successfully kept the land out of Del Valle's hands. After having been mayordomo in San Fernando, he made

2160-480: The mission lands, some time between late 1840 and early 1841. In 1840, the mission property had an inventory of 4,130 cattle, 2,647 horses, 2,500 sheep, 60 mules, 33 donkeys, and 30 hogs. As part of the mandated secularization of the missions and the emancipation of their indigenous wards, those who obtained Mexican citizenship were able to, singly or in partnerships, petition to acquire land grants of ex-mission land, and several Fernandeño natives did. In 1843, Samuel,

2214-436: The mission population had decreased to 792. On May 29, 1835, the government appointed Lieutenant Del Valle as mayordomo , despite opposition from Fray Ibarra. Around this time, a two-room adobe and tile-roofed house was built at the east end of the convento building to house the mayordomo. Del Valle conducted an inventory of the mission on July 26, 1835. The 1835 inventory showed a valuation of $ 41,714; buildings other than

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2268-456: The mission property. Lieutenant Del Valle was the descendant of a wealthy Jalisco family who had served under the Spanish army in colonial Alta California. As comisionado, Lieutenant Del Valle took charge of the mission estate by inventory from the stationed missionary, Fray Francisco González de Ibarra, who delivered $ 20,000 in hides, tallow, and other products, and $ 5,000 in coins. At this time,

2322-447: The mission, in May 1843. In 1845, another partnership of three Fernandeños, Urbano Chari, José Odón, and Manuel, were granted Rancho El Escorpión , a little over a half square league in the west of the mission lands. In March 1843, governor Manuel Micheltorena issued a decree which ordered the return of Franciscan administration over the missions. Fray Blas Ordaz managed the estate after it

2376-694: The most common places of birth for this portion of the population. The percentages of never-married men and never-married women were among the county's highest. The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $ 42,791, considered average for the city but low for the county. The percentages of households that earned $ 40,000 or less were high for the county. Renters occupied 75.4% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 24.6%. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences , El Portal Theater , Idle Hour Cafe , Phil's Diner , NoHo Gateway Sign , and Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery are located in North Hollywood. The North Hollywood Recreation Center

2430-410: The only other costume and prop company in town to augment his stock, and by 1923, Western Costume handled ninety-nine percent of the costuming business in Los Angeles. After the stock market crashed in 1929, Burns struggled, and he was ultimately forced to sell the company in 1932. He became the head of the costume department at Warner Bros. , where he stayed until his death. In order to be closer to

2484-443: The promised water delivery was withheld, and many of the ranchers one by one had their holding foreclosed or transferred to the packing companies. In turn, these were bought up by the real-estate developers and by the late 1920s a massive effort was underway to market the area to prospective home owners throughout the country. As part of this effort, in 1927, in an effort to capitalize on the glamour and proximity of Hollywood, Lankershim

2538-539: The rainless summers of the Valley by relying on the high water table along the Tujunga Wash rather than surface irrigation. The land boom of the 1880s went bust by the 1890s, but despite another brutal drought cycle in the late 1890s, the fruit and nut farmers remained solvent. The Toluca Fruit Growers Association was formed in 1894. The next year the Southern Pacific opened a branch line slanting northwest across

2592-431: The shopping strip included three full-line department stores: J.C. Penney at 5261 Lankershim, Yeakel & Goss department store at 5272, and the upscale single-location Rathbun's department store at nos. 5311 (5307–15), opened in 1921. There were also branches of the large Harris & Frank clothing chain at 5236 Lankershim that opened in 1950, J. J. Newberry five and dime at 5321, and Safeway at 5356. In

2646-688: The territory in February 1845 and installing Pío Pico as governor. The new governor Pico appropriated the mission land from Fray Ordaz and leased it, without an official grant deed or title, to his brother Andrés Pico and a business partner, Juan Manso, in December 1845 for an annual rent of $ 1,120. The parcels belonging to the Fernandeños Samuel and Pedro Joaquín were aggregated into the Rancho Ex-Mission de San Fernando. To raise war funds during

2700-471: Was 30, considered an average age for city and county neighborhoods; the percentage of residents aged 19 to 34 was among the county's highest. The neighborhood was considered "moderately diverse" ethnically within Los Angeles. The breakdown was 57.7% Latino , 27% Non-Hispanic White , 5.7% Asian , 5.6% black , and 4% from other groups. Foreign-born residents made up 46.4% of residents, a high percentage for Los Angeles; Mexico (43.2%) and El Salvador (16%) were

2754-449: Was bound by the provisions of the sale to continue supporting the mission's functions by providing necessary resources for worship and allowing the indigenous former mission wards use of the lands they occupied during their lifetimes. Fray Ordaz continued as the stationed missionary until May 1847. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War , the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that

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2808-592: Was renamed "Lankershim" after his father, although the new name of the town would not be officially recognized until 1905. By 1903, the area was known as "The Home of the Peach". In 1912, the area's major employer, the Bonner Fruit Company, was canning over a million tons of peaches, apricots, and other fruits. When the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened in 1913, Valley farmers offered to buy the surplus water, but

2862-404: Was renamed "North Hollywood". The result was a massive development of housing which transformed the area into a suburban development of Los Angeles. Lankershim Boulevard around Magnolia Boulevard was the heart of the town of Lankershim, and of North Hollywood and until the mid-1950s boasted the largest concentration of retail stores, banks, restaurants, and entertainment. In 1953, for example,

2916-468: Was restored to the religious order; during his tenure, Ordaz managed to pay off the estate's debt, purchased 120 head of livestock, and made improvements to the mission; the indigenous mission population at this time was of about 300 people. Micheltorena's decree, along with other actions by the governor, were repudiated by the Californios; they eventually rebelled against Micheltorena , forcing him to leave

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