# @Niknamew on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=PgJVpp0aSBI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64343387-Niknamew-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/f9686004d7.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-04-27T23:19:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nik Wylie (@niknamew) — https://gondola.cc/niknamew

## Caption

Fun Fact: the Woodland Hills suburb of Los Angeles, tucked away in the San Fernando Valley, used to be a sketchy landowner's self-made town meant to swindle early LA residents!

#losangeles #history 


Sources:

LA Curbed Article: https://la.curbed.com/2014/4/16/10115040/how-a-visionary-scoundrel-created-woodland-hills-in-the-1920s
Valley Relics Museum: https://valleyrelicsmuseum.org/general-museum-news/valley-relics-early-history-scandals-of-the-1920s/
New York Times Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/us/woodland-hills-los-angeles-heat-wave.html#:~:text=Woodland%20Hills.,a%20record%20for%20the%20region.
West Valley Museum: https://digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collection/SFVH/id/2298/
Water and Power Asssociates Virtual Museum: https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_the_San_Fernando_Valley_4_of_10.html
Los Angeles Public Library: https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/search/searchterm/girard

## Stats

- **Views:** 355
- **Likes:** 9
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 1

## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nik Wylie | @niknamew | https://gondola.cc/niknamew | Videographer |
| Nik Wylie | @niknamew | https://gondola.cc/niknamew | Video Editor |

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