Panorama City, Los Angeles, California
Encyclopedia
Panorama City is a district in the San Fernando Valley
region of the city of Los Angeles
, California
. It is known as the San Fernando Valley's first planned community.
, and Sepulveda Boulevard
. Other major streets include Chase Street, Parthenia Street, Nordhoff Street, Plummer Street, and Woodman Avenue. Panorama City is roughly bounded by Sepulveda Boulevard and Pacoima Wash
to the west, Lassen Street to the north, Woodman Avenue to the northeast, Tujunga Wash
to the east and Union Pacific
Coast Line
(railroad) to the south. The district is served by the San Diego
and Hollywood freeways.
Panorama City was developed as a planned community by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser
. Contrary to popular perceptions of the development of the central and western San Fernando Valley as solely being a bedroom community for jobs in downtown Los Angeles and Burbank
, Panorama City originally included General Motors' largest assembly plant to date, as well as a Schlitz brewery that eventually came under the ownership of Anheuser-Busch
.
Today, the General Motors Corporation assembly plant has been replaced with a large commercial center named The Plant, that includes stores and restaurants such as Mann Theatres
, Ross, Babies "R" Us, The Home Depot
, Hometown Buffet, In-N-Out Burger
, Starbucks Coffee
and others.
As originally planned, the community is a mixture of small single-family homes and low-rise apartment buildings. Kaiser and his development partner Fritz Burns barred non European Americans from purchasing newly built homes. Integration followed the Community Reinvestment Act
of 1977. The CRA insured credit was provided to the entire community without regards to race or income, causing white flight
as with many other areas of the San Fernando Valley.
The NBC comedy series, The Office, is filmed on Saticoy Street.
(11.86% non-Latino white), 4.80% African American
, 0.93% Native American
, 11.60% Asian
, 0.17% Pacific Islander
, 41.17% from other races, and 5.61% from two or more races. 70.12% of the population are Hispanic
or Latino of any race.
In 2009, the Los Angeles Times
s "Mapping L.A." project supplied these Panorama City neighborhood statistics: population: 65,766; median household income: $44,468.
On June 27, 2010, population is 72,000. Ethnic breakdown is 70% Latino, 26% white, 12% Asian, and 5% African American. Median household income is $35,000. Median home price is $305,560. Panorama City has 35% home ownership. ---- Neighborhood Profile, Los Angeles Daily News
, June 27, 2010
operates the Pacoima Health Center in Pacoima
, serving Panorama City.
The United States Postal Service
Panorama City Post Office is located at 14416 Chase Street.
Panorama City is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District
.
The community has six public elementary schools:
Vista Middle School (opened in September 2004) and Panorama High School (opened in 2006) serve the community.
Prior to the opening of Vista Middle School, some of the community was served by Byrd Middle School, while the other portion was served by Fulton Middle School and Sepulveda Middle School.
Prior to the opening of Panorama High School, some of the community was zoned to John H. Francis Polytechnic High School
, some of it was zoned to Van Nuys High School
, and some of it was zoned to Monroe High School
.
(9–12) are private schools in the community.
Montclair College Preparatory School
is in Van Nuys, near Panorama City.
– Panorama City has a career college in the community.
drop-in facility, has an auditorium, a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a community room, an indoor gymnasium without weights, picnic tables, and unlighted tennis courts. The Sepulveda Recreation Center is located in Panorama City. The center has two indoor gymnasiums without weights, both of which can be used as auditoriums. One has a capacity of 350 and one has a capacity of 150. The center also has a lighted baseball diamond, lighted indoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a community room, and lighted tennis courts. The Sepulveda Pool is an outdoor unheated seasonal pool in the Sepulveda center. The Mid-Valley Senior Citizen Center is in Panorama City. The center has an auditorium, a kitchen, and a stage. The building was originally a convalescent home. As of July 2000 the former convalescent home was being converted into the senior center.
San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of southern California, United States, defined by the dramatic mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it...
region of the city of Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. It is known as the San Fernando Valley's first planned community.
Description
It is bordered by Mission Hills on the north, Arleta on the northeast, Sun Valley on the east, Van Nuys on the south, and North Hills on the west. Major thoroughfares include Roscoe Boulevard, Van Nuys BoulevardVan Nuys Boulevard
Van Nuys Boulevard is a major north-south arterial road that runs through the central San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, California. The boulevard was notable for its cruising lifestyle that was prevalent in the 1960s and '70s, which was depicted in the 1979 film Van Nuys Blvd..-The...
, and Sepulveda Boulevard
Sepulveda Boulevard
Sepulveda Boulevard is a street in Los Angeles, California, which stretches some 42.8 miles from Rinaldi Street at the north end of the San Fernando Valley to the city limits of Hermosa Beach, where it "jumps" east and continues on to Long Beach. It generally runs north-south, passing underneath...
. Other major streets include Chase Street, Parthenia Street, Nordhoff Street, Plummer Street, and Woodman Avenue. Panorama City is roughly bounded by Sepulveda Boulevard and Pacoima Wash
Pacoima Wash
Pacoima Wash, long, is a major tributary of the Tujunga Wash, itself a tributary of the Los Angeles River, in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, California....
to the west, Lassen Street to the north, Woodman Avenue to the northeast, Tujunga Wash
Tujunga Wash
Tujunga Wash is a stream in Los Angeles County, California. It is a tributary of the Los Angeles River, providing about a fifth of its flow, and drains about...
to the east and Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad , headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States. James R. Young is president, CEO and Chairman....
Coast Line
Coast Line (UP)
The Coast Line is a railroad line from Burbank, California north to the San Francisco Bay Area, roughly along the Pacific Coast.The first version of the Coast line, via Saugus and Santa Paula, was completed by the Southern Pacific Railroad on December 31, 1900; the line via Santa Susana opened in...
(railroad) to the south. The district is served by the San Diego
Interstate 405 (California)
Interstate 405 is a major north–south Interstate Highway in Southern California. It is a bypass of Interstate 5, running along the western areas of the Greater Los Angeles Area from Irvine in the south to near San Fernando in the north...
and Hollywood freeways.
Panorama City was developed as a planned community by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser
Henry J. Kaiser
Henry John Kaiser was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. He established the Kaiser Shipyard which built Liberty ships during World War II, after which he formed Kaiser Aluminum and Kaiser Steel. Kaiser organized Kaiser Permanente health care...
. Contrary to popular perceptions of the development of the central and western San Fernando Valley as solely being a bedroom community for jobs in downtown Los Angeles and Burbank
Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, north of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population in 2010 was 103,340....
, Panorama City originally included General Motors' largest assembly plant to date, as well as a Schlitz brewery that eventually came under the ownership of Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. , is an American brewing company. The company operates 12 breweries in the United States and 18 in other countries. It was, until December 2009, also one of America's largest theme park operators; operating ten theme parks across the United States through the...
.
Today, the General Motors Corporation assembly plant has been replaced with a large commercial center named The Plant, that includes stores and restaurants such as Mann Theatres
Mann Theatres
Mann Theatres is a movie theatre chain that, as of November 17, 2011, operates in only one location with 8 screens in the city of Westlake. Its motto is "Where Hollywood goes to the movies"....
, Ross, Babies "R" Us, The Home Depot
The Home Depot
The Home Depot is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services.The Home Depot operates 2,248 big-box format stores across the United States , Canada , Mexico and China, with a 12-store chain...
, Hometown Buffet, In-N-Out Burger
In-N-Out Burger
In-N-Out Burger is a regional chain of fast food restaurants with locations in the western United States. Founded in 1948 by Harry Snyder and his wife Esther, establishing the first In-N-Out burger in Baldwin Park and headquartered in Irvine, California, In-N-Out Burger has since expanded outside...
, Starbucks Coffee
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
and others.
As originally planned, the community is a mixture of small single-family homes and low-rise apartment buildings. Kaiser and his development partner Fritz Burns barred non European Americans from purchasing newly built homes. Integration followed the Community Reinvestment Act
Community Reinvestment Act
The Community Reinvestment Act is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods...
of 1977. The CRA insured credit was provided to the entire community without regards to race or income, causing white flight
White flight
White flight has been a term that originated in the United States, starting in the mid-20th century, and applied to the large-scale migration of whites of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions. It was first seen as...
as with many other areas of the San Fernando Valley.
The NBC comedy series, The Office, is filmed on Saticoy Street.
Demographics
As of the Census of 2000, there are 65,235 people in Panorama City. The racial makeup of the district is 35.72% WhiteWhite American
White Americans are people of the United States who are considered or consider themselves White. The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa...
(11.86% non-Latino white), 4.80% African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
, 0.93% Native American
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
, 11.60% Asian
Asian American
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...
, 0.17% Pacific Islander
Pacific Islander
Pacific Islander , is a geographic term to describe the indigenous inhabitants of any of the three major sub-regions of Oceania: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia.According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, these three regions, together with their islands consist of:Polynesia:...
, 41.17% from other races, and 5.61% from two or more races. 70.12% of the population are Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
or Latino of any race.
In 2009, the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
s "Mapping L.A." project supplied these Panorama City neighborhood statistics: population: 65,766; median household income: $44,468.
On June 27, 2010, population is 72,000. Ethnic breakdown is 70% Latino, 26% white, 12% Asian, and 5% African American. Median household income is $35,000. Median home price is $305,560. Panorama City has 35% home ownership. ---- Neighborhood Profile, Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles Daily News
The Los Angeles Daily News is the second-largest circulating daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is the flagship of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, a branch of Colorado-based MediaNews Group....
, June 27, 2010
Notable residents
- Kirk CameronKirk CameronKirk Thomas Cameron is an American actor best known for his role as Mike Seaver on the television situation comedy Growing Pains , as well as several other television and film appearances as a child actor...
– American actor - Candace Cameron – American actress
- Jose BenavidezJose BenavidezJosé Luis Benavidez is an undefeated Mexican-American professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division. He is the son of boxing trainer Jose Benavidez, Sr. of Arcelia, Guerrero, Mexico. From two years old until he was 17, Jose jr. was raised in Phoenix, Arizona.-Amateur career:Benavidez Jr...
– 2009 National Golden Gloves Champion and a top Boxing prospect. - Meagan GoodMeagan GoodMeagan Monique Good is an American film and television actress and occasional film producer. Beginning her career at the age of four, Good has appeared in numerous commercials, television shows, feature films, and music videos....
– actress - Mike Stanton – baseball player, Florida Marlins
- Steve WapnickSteve WapnickSteven Lee "Steve" Wapnick is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox. He held batters to a .222 batting average, holding righties to a .115 batting average.Wapnick attended Monroe High School in Sepulveda, California...
, major league baseball player - HopsinHopsinMarcus Hopson, better known by his stage name Hopsin, is an American rapper, music video director and hip hop producer from Panorama City, Los Angeles, California. Known for his white contact lenses, his music videos gained popularity on YouTube...
, American rapper - Mark-Paul GosselaarMark-Paul GosselaarMark-Paul Harry Gosselaar is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Zack Morris in NBC's Saved by the Bell, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years, Detective John Clark in NYPD Blue, Jerry Kellerman in TNT's Raising the Bar, and more recently Peter...
- American actor
Government and infrastructure
The Los Angeles County Department of Health ServicesLos Angeles County Department of Health Services
Health services to over 10 million residents in the Los Angeles County are provided by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Mental health services are provided by the County Department of Mental Health...
operates the Pacoima Health Center in Pacoima
Pacoima, Los Angeles, California
Pacoima is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California.It is bordered by the Los Angeles districts of Mission Hills on the west, Arleta on the south, Sun Valley on the southeast, Lake View Terrace on the northeast, and by the city of San Fernando on the north...
, serving Panorama City.
The United States Postal Service
United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States...
Panorama City Post Office is located at 14416 Chase Street.
Public schools
Los Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District is the largest public school system in California. It is the 2nd largest public school district in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population...
.
The community has six public elementary schools:
- Burton Street Elementary School
- Chase Street Elementary School
- Liggett Street Elementary School
- Noble Avenue Elementary School
- Ranchito Avenue Elementary School
- Valley Region Elementary School #6
Vista Middle School (opened in September 2004) and Panorama High School (opened in 2006) serve the community.
Prior to the opening of Vista Middle School, some of the community was served by Byrd Middle School, while the other portion was served by Fulton Middle School and Sepulveda Middle School.
Prior to the opening of Panorama High School, some of the community was zoned to John H. Francis Polytechnic High School
John H. Francis Polytechnic High School
John H. Francis Polytechnic High School is a secondary school located in the Sun Valley area of Los Angeles, California. It serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District...
, some of it was zoned to Van Nuys High School
Van Nuys High School
Van Nuys High School established in 1914, is a high school in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District: District 2...
, and some of it was zoned to Monroe High School
Monroe High School (Los Angeles)
Monroe High School is a high school in the North Hills area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its address is 9229 Haskell Ave., North Hills, CA 91343. Home of The Vikings...
.
Private schools
St. Genevieve Elementary School (K-8) and St. Genevieve High SchoolSt. Genevieve High School
St. Genevieve High School is a private Roman Catholic high school in Panorama City, Los Angeles, California. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. In 2003, St. Genevieve High School was recognized as a National School of Character by the Character Education Partnership...
(9–12) are private schools in the community.
Montclair College Preparatory School
Montclair College Preparatory School
Montclair College Preparatory School, also commonly known as "Montclair Prep" is a school located in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, near Panorama City. The school teaches grades 9 through 12.-History:Founded in 1956, by the late Dr. Vernon E...
is in Van Nuys, near Panorama City.
Colleges and universities
Kaplan CollegeKaplan College
Kaplan College is a system of for-profit colleges in the United States and is a subsidiary of Kaplan Inc. and Kaplan Higher Education. Kaplan College offers career training for the healthcare industry....
– Panorama City has a career college in the community.
Parks and recreation
The Panorama Recreation Center is in the community. The center, which also functions as a Los Angeles Police DepartmentLos Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just under 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of with a population of more than 4.1 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in...
drop-in facility, has an auditorium, a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a community room, an indoor gymnasium without weights, picnic tables, and unlighted tennis courts. The Sepulveda Recreation Center is located in Panorama City. The center has two indoor gymnasiums without weights, both of which can be used as auditoriums. One has a capacity of 350 and one has a capacity of 150. The center also has a lighted baseball diamond, lighted indoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a community room, and lighted tennis courts. The Sepulveda Pool is an outdoor unheated seasonal pool in the Sepulveda center. The Mid-Valley Senior Citizen Center is in Panorama City. The center has an auditorium, a kitchen, and a stage. The building was originally a convalescent home. As of July 2000 the former convalescent home was being converted into the senior center.
External links
- Pacoima/Panorama City – CRA/LA
- Los Angeles Times, Real Estate section, Neighborly Advice column: "
[ Panorama City:It's not about the past; it's about potential" (Apr 25, 2004)]