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Article: VENTURA & VAN NUYS BOULEVARDS; ROADS TO CHANGE; TWO THOROUGHFARES STRETCH LENGTH, WIDTH OF VALLEY.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- November 12, 1999
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Byline: Steve Carney Staff Writer
They bind the San Fernando Valley like twine around a package, stretching to the limits east, west, north and south.
And with their bustling commerce and teeming traffic, Ventura and Van Nuys boulevards offer a diversity of cultures and classes - a diversity that defines what the Valley has become.
In a century of dramatic change, the two boulevards capture the Valley's history as it was transformed from farmland populated by a few thousand to the quintessential sprawling suburb to today's urban center home to nearly 1.7 million people.
Van Nuys Boulevard caters to the working class, while Ventura ...