Comments on: VAN NUYS SAVINGS, PANORAMA CITY, CA, 1957

By: Conroy

Conroy — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:27:06 +0000

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By: Dani Tevebaugh

Dani Tevebaugh — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:59:49 +0000

I love this place

By: g. rabbitt

g. rabbitt — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:12:11 +0000

Hello, Thanks for your great site.
I grew up in Panorama City, when it was clean. I have seen photos of it now, and it’s trahsy with signs you can’t read. I always remember this building, wanting to climb up on the sides, dad wouldn’t let us even try In later years, it was our bank, I forget, maybe Wells Fargo?
Many fond memories of Panorama bcak in the 60′s. Lennie’s Toys, Gold’s furniture, Broadway, Robinson’s, Mike’s Pizza, See’s Candy, Hughes’ Market , Americana 5 cinemas, and all the little stores along Van Nuys Blvd. I lived right off Chase Street near the elementry school.
There was a Bob Hope and Lucille Ball movie filmed in Hughes, I wish I could find the name of that film. Showed much of the surrounding area.

Thanks for the memories, and by the way, the photo of the IHOP was not the one in Panorama. That location is still there, but it has a street in front of it. Parking was across the street or on the sides.

If you have any other slides from Panorama City, We would love to see them.

Best regards, Gary.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:51:28 +0000

There’s a more modern photo of the bank online…
http://www.you-are-here.com/modern/panorama.html

By: Linda Laird

Linda Laird — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:27:16 +0000

Dear Charles,
Great building, and thanks for the background info. It looks rather similar to the early 1960s City Hall of the City of Orange, on Chapman Blvd a few blocks east of the Circle of Orange. Check it out.

By: Joyce Stillwell

Joyce Stillwell — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:55:09 +0000

Follow this link for more information about this space-age building: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/12/van-nuys-boulev.html

By: David

David — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:06:14 +0000

Charles, I have your books, and I love your work. Great stuff! Watching the Halloween video on Martha Stewart on your website, I hope you’ll consider doing a Christmas themed book and a Halloween themed book because I think the demand is there. People have much nostalgia for the way these holidays were celebrated in the 1950s and 1960s.

By: Tim Severs

Tim Severs — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:41:06 +0000

I didn’t think digital clocks came around until at least the 60s or 70s.

By: Charles Phoenix

Charles Phoenix — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:29:56 +0000

Yes, Newport Savings and Loan, another BRILLIANT Sarmineto creation, that i featured as a slide of the week maybe found here: http://www.charlesphoenix.com/2004-07-22/

By: Ralph Ives

Ralph Ives — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:29:16 +0000

Correction. It’s on Via Lido & Via Oporto, not PCH; off PCH to Newport Blvd. to Via Lido.