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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2009-08-05
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN
- 9780738570495
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN-10
0738570494
ISBN-13
9780738570495
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73326251
Product Key Features
Book Title
Santa Susana
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Photography, History
Book Series
Images of America Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
10.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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Title: Recently published book of photos tells story of Santa Susana Author: Angela Randazzo Publisher: Simi Valley Acorn Date: 9/18/09 Bill Appleton remembers Santa Susana as a thriving community of industrious, innovative and sometimes eccentric people. "I have a lot of fond memories as an elementary school kid hanging around at the airport and seeing Grandma Prisbrey looking for bottles, and then there was Corriganville movie ranch," he said. "There were just a lot of neat things happening in Santa Susana." Those recollections are what spurred Appleton, 61, to put together the recently published "Santa Susana," a compilation of more than 200 vintage photographs along with his commentary on Santa Susana, its people and its history. The glossy paperback is part of Arcadia Publishing''s Images of America series. Pictures used in the book came from Appleton''s personal collection and from the Simi Valley Historical Society. The community of Santa Susana got its name from the mountains the Spanish called Sierra de Santa Susanna. In 1887, the Simi Valley Land and Water Company first surveyed the area to sell parcels as ranches. In the mid-1950s, the township was an important agricultural center for citrus and walnut production. "For people who are newcomers to Simi Valley, the pictures in the book show a lot of things that aren''t there anymore," Appleton said. "The Santa Susana Airport was a hub of activity for many years." The airport was at today''s intersection of Los Angeles Avenue and Tapo Street. It grew from a dirt landing strip in a tomato field in the 1930s to a paved landing site for hundreds of private airplanes in the 1970s. Appleton devoted a chapter to Corriganville movie ranch, founded by stuntman and entrepreneur Ray "Crash" Corrigan. Many B-movie Westerns and television series were filmed on the site off present-day Kuehner Drive. In 1949, the ranch became a tourist attraction and was soon rated one of the 10 most interesting places in the country to visit. Among the unique personalities mentioned in Appleton''s book is Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, a folk artist who, in her late 60s, built a collection of buildings made of glass bottles and other items the general public considered trash. Although damaged by the 1994 earthquake, Bottle Village on Cochran Street continues to be a tribute to her eccentric spirit. As a fourth-generation resident, Appleton lived most of his life here, raising a family while running a professional photography studio. In 2000, he moved to Beverly Hills with his second wife, Linda, an interior designer. In the early 1990s, while rummaging around in his mother''s Simi Valley garage, Appleton came across 450 old glass plate negatives taken by his greatgrandfather, John Sparhawk Appleton, a Simi Valley pioneer in 1887. "John Sparhawk Appleton was the first of the family to come west. He took pictures because his family back east wanted to see what was going on," his great-grandson said. "He was ahead of his time in terms of technology, whatever the technology was at the time." Bill Appleton then started a threeyear project to print and categorize those photographs, which became the core of the book "Simi Valley: A Journey Through Time," which Appleton co-authored with city historian Patricia Havens. "In the Simi Valley book we never did a chapter on Santa Susana, per se. It''s mentioned throughout but it was never put into context," Appleton said. "For all those people who lived in Santa Susana, they''re going to find this book a nice homage to the area." The public is invited to meet Appleton at a book signing from 6 to 9 p.m. today, Sept. 18, at Aubergine Emporium, 4385 Valley Fair St., Simi Valley. "Santa Susana" may be purchased online at www.arcadiapublishing.com.
Synopsis
Santa Susana is one of three rural towns in Simi Valley that began at the turn of the 20th century. The town derives its name from the surrounding mountains, Sierra de Santa Susanna, and grew up alongside the railroad depot built by the Southern Pacific Company in 1903. The history of Santa Susana can be traced back to the Chumash Indian village of Ta'apu and a Spanish land grant, El Rancho Simi. The area was first surveyed by the Simi Valley Land and Water Company in 1887 for the sale of ranches. By the mid-1950s, Santa Susana had become a recognized agricultural center, noted for citrus and walnut production. Corriganville and Bottle Village are unique tourist destinations that originated near the Santa Susana Airport. In the surrounding mountains, quirky religious groups established communes away from the public with strange names and stories: Pisgah Grande, The Great Eleven Club, and WKFL Fountain of the World.
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