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More on the Calabasas Septic Tank Raid in Stokes Canyon

August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Agoura Hills, Conejo Valley, Development, History, Las Virgenes, Water Issues

I have become aware of more information regarding the raid on the historic Smith family property in Stokes Creek in Calabasas on July 8, by city of Calabasas officials and law enforcement personnel.  It was first written about in the Conejo Post on August 27, in a post titled “Calabasas Septic Tank…” The Las Virgenes Homeowners Federation [...]

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Stagecoach Inn

August 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, History, Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks, Ventura County

I finally giddy-upped over to the  Stagecoach Inn Museum in Newbury Park on Friday.  Since I have lived in the Conejo Valley eleven years, I thought it was about time to tour this historical landmark, and time for me to take a grandchild along too.  If I had known that I would enjoy going through this copy of [...]

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Calabasas Septic Tank Raid in Stokes Canyon

August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · History, Las Virgenes, Water Issues

Ted alerted the Conejo Post to an article in the 8-25 Los Angeles Times, about a reported raid by city of Calabasas officials and L.A. County Sheriff deputies, on a 60-acre homesite in Stokes Canyon, to investigate the owners’ septic system, on July 8.  According to the article, the raid resulted in “ordering a pioneering [...]

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Base of Historical Rocket Stand at SSFL to be Demolished

August 14th, 2010 · No Comments · History, Santa Susana Field Lab

The huge concrete base of an historical vertical rocket test stand (VTS-1), at the Santa Susana Field Lab, is scheduled to be taken down by current owner Boeing, starting next week.  According to an  8-13 article in the Daily News, the VTS-1 was built in 1950 and was the first large rocket test stand in the U.S.  [...]

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Thousand Oaks Name Here Before City Incorporated

August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Development, Green, History, Outdoors, Thousand Oaks

Econerd commented on yesterday’s post about the naming of the community and then the city of Thousand Oaks, and I am posting it separately: “The name Thouand Oaks didn’t come about with incorporation because it was listed as that on maps as early as the 1920′s. And, it was Thousand Oaks when Jungle Land was here [...]

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Calabasas Then and Now

July 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Conejo Valley, History, Las Virgenes, Westlake Village

From reading a book by oldtime Conejo Valley rancher, J. H. Russell, “Heads and Tails..and Odds and Ends,” I learned that Calabasas used to be a really tough place.  Russell writes in page 53 of his book, that Calabasas “was hard and tough.  Its many misdeeds, sometimes as serious as murder, were chronicled in the [...]

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Local Resident Played Marc Anthony in 1934 Movie, “Cleopatra”

July 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Agoura Hills, Arts, Conejo Valley, History, Meditations

You may not know his name, but you very likely have heard of his friend, the famous director, who cast him in several large films British actor Henry Wilcoxon was plucked from obscurity by famed director Cecil B. DeMille, to play Marc Anthony opposite Claduette Colbert in “Cleopatra” (1934).  Wilcoxon alsappeared in DeMille’s “The Ten [...]

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