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“ It is my pleasure to

Congratulations! extend congratulations
and best wishes to The

40 Year of Service, Hope and Opportunities Boys & Girls Club of

Santa Clarita Valley on
For the Kids of the Santa Clarita Valley the occasion of their

40th Anniversary.
In Memory of The assistance this

Joe and Yvonne Ventress organization has

provided to the children
of the area is legendary

throughout the 17th

Senatorial District.

I am very pleased to
represent The Boys &

Girls Club of Santa

Clarita in the Senate

of the State of
California. ”

— George C. Runner
Senator 17th District

1940 1952 1962 1967
Santa Clarita Valley’s population reaches 4,000. Actor Gene Autry buys Ernie Hickson’s Western April 16: Buffalo herd arrives at William S. Hart August 20: Community of
movie town in Placerita Canyon, renames it Park – donated by Walt Disney from Golden Oak Valencia dedicated by The
1947 “Melody Ranch”. Ranch in Placerita Canyon. Newhall Land and Farming Co.;
Bill Bonelli’s “Rancho Santa Clarita” in tract homes sell for $25,000.
Saugus is SCV’s first modern, postwar tract 1955 1963
housing, and first official use of the name: September 30: Actor James Dean, 24, eats his last Community of Canyon Country founded.
“Santa Clarita”. meal (pie and milk) at Tip’s Coffee Shop on Highway
99 in Saugus, hours before his fatal car crash.
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