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Valencia, California
January 4, 1974 — Mike Hammermeister shovels snow in front of his family home in the Old Orchard I subdivision. Old Orchard Elementary School at 25141 Ave Rondel is visible in the background. The last time it snowed and stuck was December 19, 1970. Valencia began in 1965 with the opening of the Old Orchard shopping center at the northwest corner of Lyons Avenue and the new Orchard Village Road. The shopping center was actually a component of The Newhall Land and Farming Co.'s first residential subdivision, Old Orchard I — a self-contained, triangular-shaped community of tract homes on cul-de-sacs with an elementary school (opened 1969-70), park, clubhouse, senior apartments and a newfangled paseo system to tie them all together. The first tract homes were built in 1967 and 1968 and had an initial price tag of $25,000. They were followed in 1968 and 1969 by more homes that were sandwiched between Orchard Village Road on the west and High School (1946) and Placerita Junior High (1961) on the east.
HB7401: 19200 dpi jpeg from smaller jpeg courtesy of Greg Hammermeister. |
Downtown Newhall
Canyon High
Boys' Club HQ (Pardee House)
Old Orchard
Edison House x3
Mail Delivery
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