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.
1925
- $1500 to $3150
- Glendale’s Latest
- Gateway to Chevy Chase
- Opening of Estate
- Pre Opening Sale
- A magic Name
- Attractive Office
- Tree-Clad
- Delights of Discovery
- Hundreds of People
- First Choice Tomorrow
- Fairyland
- Investment
1926
- Exclusiveness
- Tree Clad Homesites
- Bridal Trees
- Engineer’s Gangs
- New Unit in Chevy Chase
- Pictorial Settings
1927
- 25 Minutes
- Beautiful Motor Ride
- Trees
- High Character
- Chevy Chase
1929
- Builders Flock
- Musicians
1961-1998
- Spacious Living
- … In Chevy Chase
- Glendale California
- Glendale Crater
- Install Storm Drain
- Drain Job Begun
- New Storm Drains
- End of “Royal Pain”
- Bargain or Burden?
- Place Grabs You
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
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