The holidays are here, and home cooks everywhere are getting out their families’ traditional recipes! Maybe some are pulling out vintage cookbooks, stained with years… Read More »The LA-DWP Holiday Cookbook (1950s)
Just a short article today! In 2015, the Valley Relics Museum received an incredibly generous donation of vintage menus (the Gorsky Collection). It was my… Read More »Jimbill’s Coffee Shop, Sylmar
Sixty years ago this month, on February 3, 1959, was the tragic plane crash that took the lives of three early rock and roll icons:… Read More »Ritchie Valens and Tony Casanova
It’s a strange photo choice for a postcard: a huge expanse of dance floor, rainbow tinsel streamers adorning the ceiling, and a band on stage… Read More »The Rainbow Roller Rink
The Valley Relics Museum collections include hundreds of matchbooks, each one representing a former Valley business, restaurant, or group. In the days when nearly everybody… Read More »James C. Corman Congressional Matchbook
The Brady Bunch home is a story that never ends for one Studio City neighborhood. The house is officially on the market! With the unofficial… Read More »The Brady Bunch House: New Beginnings
In 1920 Ventura Boulevard was still a relatively unpopulated stretch of roadway. The long and narrow (no more than 14 feet in width) road was… Read More »The Kaiser of Chalk Hill
Two and one-half minutes before midnight on March 12th of 1928, a catastrophic event marked the beginning of the end for a town that is… Read More »THE OWENSMOUTH ROAD RACE – 1913
In 2012, The San Fernando Valley Relics Museum was able to carefully take down and save a popular local restaurant sign called The White Horse… Read More »The White Horse Inn
It’s been a long time since I contributed an article to the Valley Relics Museum blog, but I’m excited to return! In 2015, I began… Read More »Valley Relics History: The Four Jokers
Check out this map of the San Fernando Valley from 1923. Donated by Robert Aitchison.
Valley Relics Museum is proud to announce that we will be partners in the 1st annual Making Movies that Matter, a youth short film festival which connects… Read More »Making Movies that Matter
