CHEVY CHASE CANYON IN THE NEWS!

Press Clippings from 1925 to 1998

Collected from the pages of the Glendale Evening News, and the Glendale News Press, check out Chevy Chase Canyon in the news from 1925 to 1998.  Click on a “front page” then a PDF image will open that one can enlarge to any size for easy reading.  Special thanks to the Glendale CA Public Library Special Collections.

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1961-1998

MURDER – MAYHEM – FIRE – FLOODS – ANIMAL ATTACKS

From a Los Angeles Times Digital Archive search of Chevy Chase Canyon, these selected sensational stories from the 1950’s to 1990’s show that life hasn’t always been butterflies and rainbows here in our otherwise super-safe canyon.  Click on a headline to pull up the article.

CRIME

• 2 Glendale Slayings Linked
• Acquitted of Burning In-Laws Home
• Arsonist Sought In Hillside Fires
• Cocaine Stash House Suburbs
• Crime Ring, Murder and Deaths
• Death Theory Told
• Fire Work of Arsonist
• Kills Himself at Wife’s Grave
• Racist Flyers in Upscale Neighborhood
• Retiree’s Mystery Disappearance
• Taxicab Driver Kidnapped and Tied to Tree
• Tearful Son Puzzled by Death
• Wife Suffocates

FIRE

• $5,000 Arson Reward
• 6 Perish in Fire – They Never Had a Chance
• 6 Die in Cigar Fire
• 35 Homes Lost Fire
• Rebuilding Mix of Emotions

FLOODS

• House Flooded Buckingham
• Floods Desolation from Plane

MAN vs. WILDLIFE

• Coyote Kills Child
• Coyotes Preying on Humans
• Marauding Coyotes
• Glendale to Control Coyotes
• Hungry Mountain Lion Sought
• New Chemical to Curb Deer Invasion
• Bales of Hay for Animals

ONLY IN CHEVY CHASE

• Angeles Appear at Chevy Chase, Again
• City Refuses to Abandon Bridal Trail
• Garden Club Plans New Portals
• Revised Subdivision Plans
• Biggest Spenders