Book-Length Histories

A History of Burbank, 1967 (Profusely illustrated!)

Burbank Community Book, 1944

World War II

How To Hide An Airplane Factory.
A Wartime Encounter!
The First Real Blackout in Burbank
Lockheed P-38 watches
A Lockheed P-38 Returns to Burbank!
Japanese-American Camps in Burbank.
Ansel Adams in Burbank
Burbank's "Rosie the Riveter" obit

Burbank High School

Burbank High School Athletics Ninety Years Ago
The Burbank High School 100th Anniversary
The BHS 100 poster

In Memoriam

Rick Crescitelli's Burbank High School students in memoriam page
Rick Crescitelli's Burroughs High School students in memoriam page
(If you have something to add to the pages above, e-mail Rick)

The 1953 Mabel Monohan murder

The Mabel Monohan murder
The Mabel Monohan House
Barbara Graham newspaper clipping #1
Barbara Graham newspaper clipping #2
Barbara Graham newspaper clipping #3
Barbara Graham newspaper clipping #4
Barbara Graham newspaper clipping #5
Mabel Monohan

Images from the 1984 "Burbank Champions of the Past" calendar

James Jeffries
Cathy Jean Ferguson
The 1967 BHS CIF Swim Team
Sullivan, Switzer and Dodge
Miller and Caponi
Hill, etc.
Shackelford and Covert
Murphy and Morris
Card and Pawlowicz

Time Capsules

Atomic power, monorails... it's Burbank 2009! (As envisioned in the 1959 Magnolia Blvd. Bridge time capsule)
1959 Time Capsule Found
Warner Bros. Works on the 1959 Time Capsule
1959 Time Capsule photos
Burbank 1976! (1976 time capsule)

Lockheed

What Plane?
Ron Dickson's Aviation History of the San Fernando Valley
A Notable Barrel Roll!
Lockheed Comes to Burbank
Burbank Gets a Major Airfield
Jimmy Gerschler postcard, 1964
A Softer Side of Lockheed

Vickroy Park

Vickroy Park opening newspaper clipping
Vickroy Park opening program
Granpa Dutch's Vickroy Park poem

etc.

The Burbank Branch (part of abandonedrails.com)
Aging Dr. David Burbank
findagrave.com gravesite entry for Dr. David Burbank
An account of the 1927 fire
Scans of an 1889 issue of The Burbank Times
Front Street and Interstate 5 in Burbank
The Burbank Military Academy
the Unimart Building
City of Burbank streamliner
The Burbank Train Robbery
The Epic Battle of Cahuenga Pass!
Debbie Reynolds, Miss Burbank of 1948
Bruce Petty's page on Burbank Junction
Turkey Crossing
The James M. Cain House
1949: Snow in Burbank!
Burbank's Gemini Space Capsule of Love
The Jeffries Barn
Fawkes Folly
Roadsideamerica's The Old Trapper's Lodge
Henry Mingay, Burbank's Celebrated Civil War Veteran
1891 Farmhouse Demolition
The Battle of Burbank, 5 October 1945 (wikipedia entry)
Martinos - A Burbank Bakery Institution
The Burbank Golden Mall
The phrase "Beautiful Downtown Burbank"
Fire at Columbia Ranch!
Freddie Sanchez Day
What Hasn't Changed in Burbank.
Compass Tree Park.
Old Burbank seals
Starlight Bowl 1965 Program
Burbank zinc stamps
BurbankHistory.com
Burbank's celebrated Breathing Bush
A Few Words About Perren's Deli
Burroughs High School 1963 Special Prom Guests
The Moreland Truck Company, 1917-1940
Burbank's Official Song: "In Burbank"
Burbank promotional films
Burbank's Pumpkin building
Burbank's Pumpkin building - better shot from 1957
Civil Defense in Burbank, 1951
Shepherd's Cottage
Sample ballot 1914

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