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Corner of Reseda Blvd and Sherman Way, ca. 1963.

Reseda

A neighborhood founded in 1909 in the central San Fernando Valley between Van Nuys and Winnetka. It was originally named Marian after the daughter of Los Angeles Times publisher Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, one of the members of the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company who subdivided the land in 1913. It was renamed Reseda, meaning "gives comfort" in Latin, in 1922.

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