Costco to Host Book Signing for Local San Fernando Author

SAN FERNANDO, Calif. - Oct. 30, 2013 - PRLog -- The Mission San Fernando was founded on September 8, 1797 as an outpost of New Spain in the vast expanse between the San Gabriel and Santa Monica Mountains. Northwest over the Hollywood Hills from downtown Los Angeles, this land was developed into a vital farming and citrus breadbasket.

After 1900, real estate developers began subdividing "the Valley," as it is popularly known, and by 1940 communities of Los Angeles proper and new cities formed into models of suburbia: Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Burbank, Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Northridge, Roscoe (Sun Valley), Tarzana, Canoga Park, Chatsworth, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, San Fernando, Glendale, Canoga Park, Pacoima, Toluca Lake, and Woodland Hills.

The film industry built studios, location ranches and support facilities in the valley. The aviation industries grew too and the Hollywood, Ventura, and Golden State Freeways redrew the map. Songs, movies and television shows have helped ingrain "the Valley" into L.A. lore.

Join the Author for a Book Signing!

Where:  Costco

21300 Roscoe Boulevard, Canoga Park CA 91304
When:  Friday, November 15^th, 2013; 11:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m.

and

13550 W Paxton St, Pacoima CA 91331
When:  Friday, December 20^th, 2013; 11:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.

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Author Marc Wanamaker has written more than a dozen books on Hollywood and Los Angeles history and owns Bison Archives, one of Southern California's unique photographic collections. Among his books showcasing the Bison collection are Arcadia Publishing's two-volume sets on Beverly Hills and Hollywood.

San Fernando Valley

by Marc Wanamaker

Images of America series

128 pages/ softcover

Available: June 27, 2011