Studio City

Studio City is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, in the southeast San Fernando Valley, just west of the Cahuenga Pass. It is named after the studio lot that was established in the area by film producer Mack Sennett in 1927, now known as CBS Studio Center.

History - Originally known as Laurelwood, the area that Studio City occupies was formerly part of Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando. This land changed hands several times during the late 19th Century and was eventually owned by James Boon Lankershim (1850–1931), and eight other developers who organized the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company. In 1899, however, the area lost most water rights to Los Angeles and therefore subdivision and sale of land for farming became untenable.

Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct began in 1908 and water reached the San Fernando Valley in November, 1913. Real estate boomed, and a syndicate led by Harry Chandler, business manager of the Los Angeles Times, with Hobart Johnstone Whitley, Isaac Van Nuys, and James Boon Lankershim acquired the remaining 47,500 acres of the southern half of the former Mission lands—everything west of the Lankershim town limits and south of present-day Roscoe Boulevard excepting the Rancho Encino. Whitley platted the area of present-day Studio City from portions of the existing town of Lankershim as well as the eastern part of the new acquisition.

In 1927, Mack Sennett began building a new studio on 20 acres donated by the land developer.[3] The area around the studio was named Studio City.[4]

In 1955, Studio City's Station 78 became the first racially integrated station in the Los Angeles City Fire Department.

Geography - Studio City is bordered on the north by Valley Village, on the east by Toluca Lake and Universal City, on the south by Hollywood Hills West, on the southwest by Beverly Crest and on the west by Sherman Oaks.

The Los Angeles River and Tujunga Wash flow through Studio City. The two concrete-lined channels merge just west of Colfax Avenue and north of Ventura Boulevard adjacent to CBS Studio Center.

Schools - 

Public

• Walter Reed Middle School, 6-8, 4525 Irvine Avenue
• Rio Vista Elementary School, K-5, 4243 Satsuma Avenue

Charter

• Carpenter Community Charter School, K-5, 3909 Carpenter Avenue

Private

• Bridges Academy, 4-12, 3921 Laurel Canyon Boulevard
• Campbell Hall School, K-12, 4533 Laurel Canyon Boulevard
• Harvard-Westlake School,10-12, 3700 Coldwater Canyon Avenue
• Oakwood School, K-6, 11230 Moorpark Street
• St. Charles Borromeo School, K-8, 10850 Moorpark Street