Selected Burbank City Directories, 1921-1970
Formatted and uploaded by Wes Clark
Have you ever seen a City Directory? They're thick, hardbound books full of data and advertising that is broken up into different sections. These are published by years.
The white pages are like the white pages in a phone book: They give a listing of who is in Burbank by last name. The street guide section is the same information, but organized by streets. It's especially useful because with this you can identify who lived where and who were neighbors with each other. Then there are buyers' guides, which are classified ads. Another section is a business listing. Some early directories have numerical listings of phone numbers; this information is probably of no use to anyone anymore so I didn't bother with these.
As I am now retired, I can do what I've wanted to do for a number of years - scan and post the various Burbank City Directory .pdfs onto Burbankia for use by Burbank researchers.
If you have an ancestry.com account you can fetch these same Burbank city directories for 1921, 1922, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1949, 1952, 1969 and 1970 - look under "U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995."
For safekeeping, I also uploaded all these .pdf files to archive.org, which has the crazy mission to archive the entire Internet.
Enjoy!
Wes
January/February 2023
Front Matter - 11.2 MB.
This is material (probably written by the Chamber of Commerce) describing how wonderful Burbank is, 1922-1970.
1921 Burbank Directory, part 1 (start to Lerch)
1921 Burbank Directory, part 2 (Lerch to end)
1922 Burbank Directory - 18.3 MB
White pages Part One (start to koontz)- 22 MB
White pages Part Two (koontz to end) - 22 MB
Street Guide - 12 MB
Classified Business (yellow) - 7 MB
1937 Classified Business Directory - 8 MB
1937 Street Guide - 14.5 MB
1937 Buyers Guide - 1.9 MB
1937 White Pages - 49.8 MB
1939 Classified Business Directory - 12 MB
1939 Street Guide - 19.1 MB
1939 Classified Buyers Guide - 2.3 MB
1939 White Pages - 1 (Start to Lafferty) - 32.6 MB
1939 White Pages - 2 (LaGuess to End) - 32.8 MB
1940 Classified Business Guide - 15 MB
1940 White pages part one (start to Lamkin) - 46.4 MB
1940 White pages part two (Lamkin to end) - 45.7 MB
1942 Classified Business Directory - 11.2 MB
1942 White pages part one (start to Logan) - 48 MB
1942 White pages part two (Logan to end) - 42.4 MB
1946 Classified Business Guide - 16.8 MB
1946 White pages part one (start to Lagg) - 60 MB
1946 White pages part two (Laghtfoot to end) - 60 MB
This directory is incomplete; all I have is the white pages from the beginning to Lamden. Sorry!
1949 White pages (start to Lamden) - 67 MB
1952 Classified Business Directory - 16.3 MB
1952 White pages part one (start to Godsby) - 51.9 MB
1952 White pages part two (Godward to Okwanger) - 51.5 MB
1952 White pages part three (Olah to end) - 51.2 MB
Street Guide - 1 (Start to Leland Way) - 36.4 MB
Street Guide - 2 (Lima Street to end) - 39.2 MB
Part One: Start to Carr - 51 MB
Part Two: Carr to Fleetman - 52 MB
Part Three: Fleetway to Hurst - 53 MB
Part Four: Hurst to Maurer - 53 MB
Part Five: Maurer to Prentice - 82 MB
Part Six: Prentice to Stimpson - 56 MB
Part Seven: Stimpson to End - 64 MB
1969 Classified Buyers Guide, 1 - 25 MB
1969 Classified Buyers Guide, 2 - 25.8 MB
1969 Street Guide, 1 (Start to N. Lincoln Street) - 50 MB
1969 Street Guide, 2 (N. Lincoln Street to end) - 49.5 MB
1969 White Pages, 1 (Start to Dunlop) - 53.4 MB
1969 White Pages, 2 (Dunn to Labbe) - 54.2 MB
1969 White Pages, 3 (Labbe to Rogers) - 54.5 MB
Buyer's Guide Classified Business - 25 MB
Street Guide 1 - 46 MB (start to N. Lincoln St.)
Street Guide 2 - 47 MB (N. Lincoln St. to end)
White Pages 1 - 53 MB (start to Garcia)
White Pages 2 - 52 MB (Garcia to Neely)
White Pages 3 - 60 MB (Neely to end)