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7 Fred Hartsook

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9 Avery Schreiber

10 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

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13 North Hollywood Park

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A FOUNDING FAMILY IN A FLEDGLING TOWNThe cold winters and the hard work of Iowa farm life once drove hundreds of thousands of “Hawkeyes” to California.

One of them was named Wilson C. Weddington. He came here in 1890 to visit his sister, and he never left. What he did leave was a huge imprint

on what would become North Hollywood.

Weddington liked the place so much he brought his wife, Mary, and his family here, and bought a number of acres.

The Civil War veteran soon had a chance to stand out in the sparsely populated settlement then

called Lankershim/Toluca. Lankershim was the big-gest name in the area, but Weddington made his

presence known after President Grover Cleveland appointed him to the job of postmaster in 1893. It was a

title Weddington held for 22 years. The post office was also his home, and when he bought a general store in 1894, he moved the post office there. The general store became a family enterprise; Wilson and Mary Weddington’s sons, Guy and Fred, both worked in the store.

The family was such a fix-ture that when the Red Car

trolley at last arrived in the Valley in 1911, it was the elder

Weddington who was invited to help drive the ceremonial

golden spike into the rail lines.

MULTI-TASKING IN A GROWING TOWNFred Weddington also became a lawman, and in 1904 he earned a big headline. Two thieves had beaten up an elderly Frenchman. Weddington, a deputy sheriff at the time, saddled up his horse and tracked them to a barley field where they were hiding, arresting them. They later went to prison.

The burgeoning town needed more services like a bank, and again, the Weddingtons obliged. They opened the

Bank of Lanker-shim in 1910, and Fred Wedding-ton got off his horse and got behind a desk. In 1927, the year North Hollywood acquired its name, the bank became part of the Security Pacific chain, operat-ing from the now-venerable brick building at the northwest corner of Lankershim Boulevard and Wed-dington Street.

LOCAL ROOTS, LOCAL LEGACYThe other Weddington brother, Guy, married

Marjorie Davis, whose family arrived here from England in 1895, and built the area’s first ten-nis court. Guy Weddington also kept his hand in agriculture, running a major fruit canning operation, and heading Weddington Investment

Company, a family partnership that exists to this day. It is now operated by Wilson Weddington’s

great-grandson, Guy Weddington McCreary.

When Wilson Weddington died in 1923, the business district closed for two hours in tribute. Guy Weddington died in 1941 and Fred Weddington died in 1967. Their 1904 family home still stands near Vineland Avenue. Their first home, the one that served as the post office, was on the site where the El Portal Theatre now stands.

The first post office was established in 1893. Then known as the community of Toluca, Wilson C. Weddington was appointed postmaster by President Grover Cleveland. Weddington is seen here sitting on the porch steps of his home, which served as the post office, with his son Fred in the carriage on the left and his son Guy in the carriage on the right.

This 1893 view of the Weddington Ranch shows the area which by 1910 became the heart of the town’s business district along Toluca Road, now Lankershim Boulevard. Weddington Bros. Store can be seen near the center with the Lankershim School toward the rear.

The Weddington Brothers General Store and Post Office in Lankershim, 1908.

By 1919, check cashing and banking at the local general store had given way to Weddington’s Bank of Lankershim, predecessor of the Security Pacific Bank of North Hollywood which was founded in 1923. Bank president Fred Weddington is the driver of the “limousine.”

Wilson C. Weddington and his two sons played a dominant role in the early development of what today is North Hollywood.

The Davis family came to the area from England in 1895. Wearing the latest European fashions, the Davises were responsible for building the town’s first tennis courts at Riverside Drive and Laurel Canyon Boulevard.

Wilson C. Weddington was one of the founders

of North Hollywood, pictured here in 1915.

Fred R. Weddington served as Lankershim’s constable

and president of the Bank of Lankershim in the early 1900s.

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CELEBRITIES SAT FOR HIS CAMERABack when the fields of the San Fernando Valley

helped to feed California and eventually the nation, Fred Hartsook raised champion black and white Holstein dairy cows with names like Bessie, Snowball, and Tillie. Hartsook was a hands-on rancher, wrote Los Angeles

historian and writer John S. McGroarty — a man who raised goats and hogs and drove his

own mule team.

For several generations, in the Midwest and on the East Coast, photography had been the Hartsook family

business. Hartsook came to Southern California as a young man, and soon he too became as well known for hoisting a

camera as a milk pail. Silent film stars like Mary Pickford sat for him, as did such notables as auto tycoon Henry Ford, aviator Charles Lindbergh

and presidents Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover.

MILK MONEY AND OTHER BUSINESS VENTURESHis lasting impact on photography, though, was commercial. He owned a pioneering chain

of photo studios from San Francisco to Santa Ana, and sent out discount coupons, to the

fury of his competitors.

He and his wife, Bess Hesby Hartsook, a “Miss Liberty” beauty queen at the

1915 Pan-Pacific International Expo-sition in San Francisco, bought

their Northern California honey-moon cabin not long after they

were married, and turned the redwood forest property into

a resort called the Hart-sook Inn, a getaway for

celebrities.

HARD TIMES FOR HARTSOOKThe 1920s dealt Hartsook a string of reverses. His

renowned Holstein herd had to be killed in 1924 because livestock inspectors had tracked in hoof and mouth disease on their boots and carried it through Hartsook’s pastures.

Three years later, the Hartsook Inn burned

down, and in 1929, Hartsook lost his photo

business. He was only 53 when he died of a heart

attack the following year. His widow rebuilt the lodge and ran the inn for a few years thereaf-ter, until it burned down again. The Hartsook Inn would survive a series of fires under a series of owners. Today it is privately owned as part of a conservation agreement with the Save the Redwoods League.

Some of Hartsook’s famous studio portraits can still be seen on the Internet. The local post office near the Hartsook Inn bore the Hartsook name for a time, and in Humboldt County, a creek and a noted redwood tree, the “Hartsook Giant,” still carry his name. Here in North Hollywood, Hartsook Street — the site of his dairy ranch — is named for the agricultural and photographic pioneer, and nearby Hesby Street is named after his wife.

Bess and Fred Hartsook (far right) and two of their children (seated).

Postcard of the Hartsook Inn in the heart of the Redwoods on the world-famous Redwood Highway U.S. No. 101. Piercy, CA.

Bess Hartsook and child.

“Some Notable Victims of the Foot-and-Mouth Scourge” — a full-page article showing a few of the prominent cows that had to be killed, most from the Hartsook Ranch. Los Angeles Times — May 18, 1924.

Mary Pickford

Henry Ford

Charles Lindbergh

Official copyright mark of Hartsook Photo, c. 1918.

Fred Hartsook

Miss Liberty, Bess Hesby, Queen of the 1915 Pan-

Pacific International Expo.

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LAYING TRACKS, AND A FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURELand is the secret to Southern California’s prosperity, but it isn’t worth much without a way to move the goods and services it generates. This modest wooden building on a small parcel of land is a portal to the history of how the San Fer-nando Valley grew and prospered.

The Lankershim depot laid the foundation for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority here. The depot is a link from past to future, a community center and museum to the underpinnings of the Valley. Rocks that built the Los Ange-les Harbor passed through here; fruit grown in the Valley was piled here in crates to be shipped around the coun-try. And in 1914, Cecil B. DeMille and his film crew stopped here on their way north to shoot the seminal film The Squaw Man.

A BIG NEED TO HAUL BIG HARVESTSUntil the depot opened in 1895, the Chatsworth Limited made only one freight stop a day in Lankershim / Toluca; human arrivals still had to get there by stagecoach. A horse and buggy trip to downtown Los Ange-les and back took three days, over what is now the Hollywood Freeway. Back then, it was just the Cahuenga Pass, a one-lane dirt road paved with peach and apricot pits that fell from the jostling loads of fruit.

There was plenty of fruit to move. Lankershim was known as “Home of the Peach,” and apricots, walnuts, and cherries weren’t far behind.

The biggest employer around was the Bonner Fruit Company, clocking in a

million pounds of fruit a year, and shipping them around the

country from the depot. Dia-mond Walnuts had its own operation, too, conveniently

close to the depot.

THE RED CARS COME TO THE VALLEYA train known as the “Toluca Flyer” was delivering passengers to the station at the turn of the century. In 1911, interurban Red Cars were making travel between the Valley and downtown a lot cheaper and faster — 40 cents round trip and 45 minutes each way.

So central was the depot to local life that in 1919, a gazebo was built alongside, and on Sunday afternoons, a band played patriotic John Philip Sousa favorites. Now passenger trains joined freight trains in stopping here, and Phil’s Diner opened in 1928, feeding passengers in a replica of a railroad car — another one of those amusing Los Angeles buildings built to look like derbies or hot dogs. Even people who never dined there knew the pink and black diner from its appearance in movies and TV. L.A. Weekly praised it as the city’s “friendliest

heartburn.” In the late 1990s, the diner was purchased and subsequently moved to its present location at 5230 Lanker-shim where it was extensively renovated.

Los Angeles’ car culture replaced the Red Car, which made its last stop at the depot in 1952. Local wits called it “A Streetcar Named Expire.”

The charming station and park at Chandler and Lankershim Boulevards, c. 1919, also served as the site for many town concerts and events.

Cahuenga Pass, North Hollywood, c. 1890. In the center of the photograph was a coach stop, owned by Geronimo Lopez, where people could stay overnight.

Diamond Walnut Packing House, established in 1909. Photo c. 1920.

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Exterior view of the Lankershim Train Depot in 1927.

Southern Pacific steam engine no. 1364 prepares to head out of station.

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Amid much fanfare and celebration, Wilson C. Weddington and financier H.J. Whitley drove the golden spike into the Pacific Electric’s new Big Red streetcar line on December 11, 1911, initiating passenger service from Hollywood to Lankershim.

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