Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California Totally Explained

Everything about Woodland Hills Los Angeles California totally explained

Woodland Hills is a district in the City of Los Angeles, California, United States.
It is located in the southwestern area of the San Fernando Valley, northeast of Calabasas and west of Tarzana. To the north Woodland Hills is bordered by West Hills, Canoga Park, and Winnetka. Running east-west through the community is U.S. Route 101 (Ventura Freeway) and Ventura Boulevard, which starts in Woodland Hills and intersects Valley Circle Boulevard.

History

Victor Girard Kleinberger bought 2,886 acres (12 km²) in the area and founded the town of Girard in 1922. He sought to attract residents and businesses by developing an infrastructure, advertising in newspapers, and planting 120,000 trees. Although his early efforts were criticized as providing only dubious facade of economic activity (local lore has it that in order to attract development he erected false store fronts on Ventura Boulevard, for which he spent time in jail), the Girard Golf Course completed in 1925 continues to operate today as the Woodland Hills Country Club, and his scheme was ultimately successful in attracting interest in the community.
   In 1941, the community was renamed Woodland Hills, an appropriate name owing to all the trees that Girard had planted years earlier. Harry Warner bought 1,100 acres (4.5 km²) in the area in the 1940s for a horse ranch. The modern Warner Center commercial zone is named for Harry and features high-rise buildings, hotels, and shopping centers. A major transit hub — the western end of the Orange Line — opened here in October 2005.
   The population of Woodland Hills is approximately 70,000. The area is known around "The Valley."
   Woodland Hills is often very hot during the summer. In July 2006, Woodland Hills recorded the highest temperature ever in Los Angeles County, hitting 119 degrees Fahrenheit at Los Angeles Pierce College.

Emergency services

Fire service

Los Angeles Fire Department Station 84

(Woodland Hills) and Station 105

(Woodland Hills) serve the community.

Police service

Los Angeles Police Department operates the nearby West Valley Community Police Station (External Link

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Public schools

Public schools serving Woodland Hills are under the jurisdiction the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Elementary schools include:

Middle schools include:

Hale Middle School

Woodland Hills Academy

(formerly known as Parkman Middle School) High schools include:

El Camino Real High School- Frequently wins City, State and National Academic Decathlon Contest

William Howard Taft High School Thoreau Continuation High School is in the area. Los Angeles Pierce College, which is part of the Los Angeles Community College District, is also found in Woodland Hills.

Private Schools

Louisville High School All female Catholic High School

Chaminade College Preparatory Private CO-ED Catholic High School

Chatsworth Hills Academy, serving Preschool through Eighth

Pinecrest Schools serving Preschool through Eighth Grade

St. Bernardine of Siena serving Preschool through Eighth Grade

St. Mel serving Preschool through Eighth Grade

Colleges and universities

Colleges and universities near Woodland Hills include:

California State University, Northridge

Pepperdine University

Cal Lutheran University

University of California, Los Angeles

Public libraries

Los Angeles Public Library operates the Woodland Hills Branch and the Platt Branch.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 61,092 people. 74.8% White, 3.4% African American, 7.2% Hispanic/Latino, 5.9% Asian, and 6.8% Two or more races. Median age: 40.8 Average household size: 2.66 Median household income (1999): $70,411

Famous residents

Born and reared in Woodland Hills:

Jamal Anderson, NFL football player
Jason Bateman, actor who played Michael Bluth on Arrested Development
Buddy Collette, legendary jazz multi-instrumentalist who was the first black musician to break the color line on television, on the Groucho Marx Show in the early 1950s.
Hanshi Frank W Dux, conntroversial Ninjutsu master.
Brad Garrett, actor who played Robert on Everybody Loves Raymond
Brett Gurewitz, guitarist and songwriter for Bad Religion. Attended El Camino Real High School.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse, actor in Superbad, attended El Camino Real High School
Janel Moloney, actress on The West Wing attended El Camino Real High School
Mark Saul, actor on All That
Jan Smithers, actor on WKRP in Cincinnati

Prior to being convicted of fraud, teenage entrepreneur Barry Minkow bought a mansion in Woodland Hills.

Many Hollywood notables spent their later years at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital.

Buster Keaton, comedian and actor, during early '60s was the "honorary mayor of Woodland Hills"

Ted Cassidy, actor who played Lurch on The Addams Family lived here until he died in 1979 (his ashes were supposedly buried in his yard)

Joe Don Baker, actor

Bobby Diamond, Los Angeles lawyer and former actor

Lisa Kudrow, actress on Friends graduated from William Howard Taft High School

Chad Muska, born in Lorain, Ohio and currently lives in Woodland Hills.

Paige Hurd, actress who played Vanessa in Beauty Shop

Sara Paxton, actress

Eazy-E, hip hop artist. Attended William Howard Taft High School.

Ice Cube, hip hop artist. Attended William Howard Taft High School.

Everlast, singer, hip hop artist. Attended William Howard Taft High School.

Wilmer Valderrama, actor. Attended William Howard Taft High School.

William Smith, Musician. Band Creed Attended William Howard Taft High School.

Asia Carrera, actress

Will Smith, actor, rapper

Xzibit, hip hop artist

Dr. Dre, hip hop artist/producer

Angelo Moore, musician, lead singer of Fishbone, attended El Camino Real High School

Walter Kibby, musician, horns in Fishbone - attended El Camino Real High School

Jennifer Flavin- Model, wife of actor Sylvester Stalone Attended EL Camino Real High School

Billy Zabka- actor who played bad guy in The Karate Kid - Attended El Camino Real High School

Christopher Knight, actor "Peter Brady" on the Brady Bunch. Attended El Camino Real High School.

David Sherrill, actor. Attended William Howard Taft High School.

Taylor Rain, pornstar, current resident

DeForest Kelley, Actor, Best known for playing Leonard "Bones" McCoy in Star Trek

America Ferrera, actress who plays Betty in Ugly Betty

Kim Basinger, actress and model

Telly Savalas, actor (Kojak)

Greg Graffin, vocalist and co-founder of Bad Religion. Attended El Camino Real High School.

Jay Bentley, bass guitarist and co-founder of Bad Religion. Attended El Camino Real High School.

Nigel Olsson, Drummer and vocalist for the Elton John Band.

John Mahon, Percussionist and vocalist for the Elton John Band.

Regis Toomey, Actor

Nick Hexum, lead singer of alternative band 311

Ty Miller, Actor

Yehuda Gilad, Professor of Clarinet, University of Southern California, one of the most famous and sought after teachers in the world.

Noel Webb, Violinist, composer, and actor.

Notable Businesses

Blue Cross of California headquarters. BCC is now Anthem (a huge banner hangs on the building).

Boeing

21st Century Insurance headquarters

Univision Music Group headquarters

Health Net, Inc. headquarters

Panavision headquarters

United Online headquarters

Westfield Shoppingtown Promenade

Footnotes

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