Mulholland Townsite (?)
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=15803
"There's the townsite,
buy it?"
Some
cursory research suggests that Mulholland townsite was short lived and is now known as Pacoima. (
Would expect contemporary newspaper reports might answer many of the questions raised by this post.)
Quote:
For many years, Pacoima’s fertile soil produced abundant crops of olives, peaches, apricots, oranges and lemons. In fact, the Pacoima Chamber of Commerce was originally called the Pacoima Chamber of Farmers. That was in 1916, a couple of years after the city had briefly changed its name to Mulholland. http://www.pacoimachamber.com/pacoimas-history/
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The date and reason for the Pacoima name change are fuzzy. Mulholland officially turned on "the Owens Valley faucet" on November 5, 1913. One can guess that prior to that date, i.e., the purported dates of the Mulholland Townsite photos 1905-12, the Mulholland name was a political lightning rod. This
(or Mayor Shaw's mustache) may have had something to do with the water engineer's name being dropped in favor of Pacoima.
This is the first photo I have seen actually evidencing the name.
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...XENEGIYU4Q.jpg
People exploring the Mulholland townsite on its "opening day."
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...D8LHIFV84N.jpg
Six images depicting "orchards, town of Van Nuys in background, Los County Rock Crusher (source of rock used for roads in Los Angeles County), townsite of Mulholland, mountains in background."
(Dates offered are ~1905-1912)
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...3VQ3DIT33H.jpg
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UPGDY464V7.jpg
Guessing this photo captures the rock crushing apparatus.
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...ND1KRMAETL.jpg
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...H87VSCYACS.jpg
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...38SRRI6GM7.jpg
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...C1UA5R61GJ.jpg
Van Nuys in 1911 "The payroll town."
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...HCXECR2QI1.jpg
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...93NMC4J3C1.jpg
This housing development is not specifically identified except as "
Richardson Tract on road to Mulholland." Unclear if it is Van Nuys or another development, or whether it is also along what has amorphously described by the source notes as "'Pacific Highway' boulevard." Interestingly, the utility poles are described as
telegraph poles.
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...MD7U8LSAAU.jpg
1920 - From Topanga Summit - you might see what was briefly called Mulholland.
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...XTHCD419TQ.jpg
More photos of the developing San Fernando Valley here ->
http://waterandpower.org/museum/Earl...do_Valley.html (
But you already knew that!)