What was Built When in North Hollywood?

SurveyLA is a great way to get a historic peek at how the city developed and this week, the blog takes a look at how North Hollywood and Valley Village came to be.

In addition to an informative map that depicts in which decades parts of North Hollywood and Valley Village popped up, David J. Barboza discusses the first San Fernando Valley Jewish congregation built in the late 1930s and the brief aerospace industry boom.

And long before the diverse NoHo came about, the blog talks about the prevalence of white-only covenants up through the 1970s.

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