Book-Length Histories

A History of Burbank, 1967 (Profusely illustrated!)

Burbank Community Book, 1944

A Brief History of Burbank, California (1961)

Ranchos de los Santos - The Story of Burbank (1927)

The Story of Burbank from Her Eventful Pioneer Days (1954)

Burbankia Slide Show

Slide Show, 7/9/11

Other Material

Maurice Poirier, Burbank Inventor and Ten Ideas Per Minute Man

Robert Vincent's Burbank N Beyond coverage for the Burbank 100th

Amos Burbank obituary, from 1920. He was NOT the founder of Burbank, as claimed here.

Early Burbank Promotional (Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr 1887)

Early Burbank Promotional (Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep 1887)

Work commences on Burbank Villa (Los Angeles Times, 7 May 1887)

Burbank A.B.C. Directory (1942)

A Short History of the Mormon Church in Burbank

The Cabrini Chapel

When organized crime ran Burbank: Small Cities Can Lick Crime, Too! (Coronet, May 1956)

Dr. David Burbank and Family

Dr. David Burbank Statue and Dedication
Dr. David Burbank, 1850
Dr. David Burbank, 1885
Dr. David Burbank (Disputed; this could be somebody else.)
Dr. David Burbank with his horse (Disputed; this could be somebody else.)
Aging Dr. David Burbank (Disputed; this could be O.J. Stough.)
findagrave.com gravesite entry for Dr. David Burbank
Dr. David Burbank's parents
Dr. David Burbank's ranch house, 1910
Dr. David Burbank obit (Jan 22 1895)
Frank Burbank obit (Jan 28 1903)

Excerpts from the Burbank Times:

30 March 1889
6 April 1889
13 April 1889
20 April 1889
27 April 1889
16 November 1889
30 November 1889

Annexation Movement

Consolidation Joe - If it were up to this early Burbanker, the city would be part of Los Angeles.

World War II

How To Hide An Airplane Factory.
A Wartime Encounter!
The First Real Blackout in Burbank
Lockheed P-38 watches
Lt. Col. Dyess P-38 crash at St. Finbar church (Dec 22 1943)
P-38's Terrify Nazis, Burbank Flyer Asserts (Jul 26 1943)
A Lockheed P-38 Returns to Burbank!
Japanese-American Camps in Burbank.
Ansel Adams in Burbank
Burbank's "Rosie the Riveter" obit
Vengeful War Widows Work in Plane Plants (Los Angeles Times, Jul 12 1942)

The 1953 Mabel Monohan murder

The Mabel Monohan murder
The Mabel Monohan House
Barbara Graham newspaper clipping #1
Barbara Graham newspaper clipping #2
Barbara Graham newspaper clipping #3
Barbara Graham newspaper clipping #4
Barbara Graham newspaper clipping #5
Mabel Monohan

Cold War Airplane Crash

Vietnam

City Extends California St. into Vietnam
Marines Corps Day in Burbank, 1968
Operation Cookie Lift (Los Angeles Times, Feb 23 1967)
Gifts Give Thanks to Servicemen in Vietnam (Nov 12 1965)
Artillery fire base in Vietnam with Burbank sign, c. 1968
Greg Alaimo's sign seen in Vietnam during the war
Greg Alaimo and his Burbank Flag in Vietnam, 1968
Greg Alaimo and his Goldie Hawn poster with Burbank bumper sticker, Vietnam, 1968

In Memoriam

Rick Crescitelli's Burbank High School students in memoriam page
Rick Crescitelli's Burroughs High School students in memoriam page
(If you have something to add to the pages above, e-mail Rick)
Linda Mustion's Burbank High School, Burbank, CA In Memoriam (Burbank High School Deceased Alumni By Class Years) blog

Burbank High School

Burbank High School Athletics Ninety Years Ago
The Burbank High School 100th Anniversary
The BHS 100 poster

Images from the 1984 "Burbank Champions of the Past" calendar

James Jeffries
Cathy Jean Ferguson
The 1967 BHS CIF Swim Team
Sullivan, Switzer and Dodge
Miller and Caponi
Hill, etc.
Shackelford and Covert
Murphy and Morris
Card and Pawlowicz

Time Capsules

Atomic power, monorails... it's Burbank 2009! (As envisioned in the 1959 Magnolia Blvd. Bridge time capsule)
1959 Time Capsule Found
Warner Bros. Works on the 1959 Time Capsule
Burbank 1976! (1976 time capsule)
2111 Time Capsule flyer
2111 Time Capsule Contents

Lockheed

Lockheed in Burbank, 1928-1994, Selected Highlights
What Plane?
Ron Dickson's Aviation History of the San Fernando Valley
A Notable Barrel Roll!
Lockheed Comes to Burbank
Burbank Gets a Major Airfield
Jimmy Gerschler postcard, 1964
A Softer Side of Lockheed

Vickroy Park

Vickroy Park opening newspaper clipping
Vickroy Park opening program
Vickroy Park opened
Vickroy Park opened (Los Angeles Times, 3 Jun 1925)
Granpa Dutch's Vickroy Park poem

The Emmanuel Church

The Emmanuel Church Story by Pete Peterson

1903 Map of Burbank

That railroad spur is the line that goes west along what is now Chandler, you can orient yourself from that. San Fernando Road is called 2nd Street here. 1903 Burbank map, 1, 1903 Burbank map, 2, 1903 Burbank map, 3, 1903 Burbank map, 4.

Burbank's 40th Anniversary

Burbank's 40th (1927) - One, Burbank's 40th (1927) - Two

Burbank's 75th Anniversary

Politics Invade Birthday Party
Burbank Set To Party As Age Issue Is Settled
Burbank To Put The Icing On Its Cake
Burbank Buries Bits of City Life
Burbank 75th Anniversary 1986

The Burbank-Burroughs Football Rivalry

The Burbank-Burroughs Football Rivalry

City Hall

Burbank's Ready for Any Emergency (3/30/42)
Burbank Drive Nets Iron Lung (6/30/42)
Police Awaiting Powerful Radio (8/30/42)
New City Hall Thrown Open (2/13/43)

etc.

LDS Building History
Burbank's Anti-Red Laws (1950)
Officer Smith's 1967 Gun Battle
The Birth of KROQ (1972)
Wrolstad murder (Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec 1965)
Octavia Lesueur obituary
Is it "Burbanker" or "Burbankian?"
City of Burbank - Citywide Historic Context Report (September 2009)
The Ben Mar Development
The Burbank Theatre
The Burbank Branch (part of abandonedrails.com)
An account of the 1927 fire
Scans of an 1889 issue of The Burbank Times
Front Street and Interstate 5 in Burbank
The Burbank Military Academy
the Unimart Building
City of Burbank streamliner
The Burbank Train Robbery
The Epic Battle of Cahuenga Pass!
Debbie Reynolds, Miss Burbank of 1948
Bruce Petty's page on Burbank Junction
Turkey Crossing
The James M. Cain House
1949: Snow in Burbank!
Burbank's Gemini Space Capsule of Love
The Jeffries Barn
Fawkes Folly
- Burbank's famous early monorail.
The Fawkes Family Follies
- So much more than just a monorail...
Roadsideamerica's The Old Trapper's Lodge
Henry Mingay, Burbank's Celebrated Civil War Veteran
1891 Farmhouse Demolition
The Battle of Burbank, 5 October 1945 (wikipedia entry)
Martinos - A Burbank Bakery Institution
The Burbank Golden Mall
The phrase "Beautiful Downtown Burbank"
Fire at Columbia Ranch!
Freddie Sanchez Day
What Hasn't Changed in Burbank.
Compass Tree Park.
Old Burbank seals
Starlight Bowl 1965 Program
Burbank zinc stamps
BurbankHistory.com
Burbank's celebrated Breathing Bush
A Few Words About Perren's Deli
Burroughs High School 1963 Special Prom Guests
The Moreland Truck Company, 1917-1940
Burbank's Official Song: "In Burbank"
Burbank promotional films
Civil Defense in Burbank, 1951
Shepherd's Cottage
Sample ballot 1914


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