4/2/08 - Thanks to reader Rosemarie Ellis, I have added a newspaper clipping about Mingay's 100th birthday and a program to the "Henry Mingay page."

3/26/08 - Added "Lockheed Comes to Burbank" and "Burbank Gets a Major Airfield."

3/20/08 - "The Spirit of Soho": You can travel all the way across the Atlantic and still see references to Burbank!

2/10/08 - Thanks to Darryl Eisele I am able to post this souvenir menu from Sargent's: front, menu, back. It's dated December 1959. My mother worked there 1969-1971; as a child I recall how hard the menu was to read!

1/30/08 - The Burbank High School Class of 1967 Blog site.

1/25/08 - FYI: The official BHS 100th anniversary web site is here.

12/5/07 - Burbankia is four years old today - cool!

11/30/07 - Posted Burbank High School, 100 years! Can you help?

11/13/07 - Just discovered BurbankHistory.com (click here), a clever website about - can you guess? - Burbank history. Check out the page about the celebrated Burbank Breathing Bush.

10/18/07 - Posted Burbank zinc stamps.

10/16/07 - Posted Burbank City Hall, 1950's, Burbank City Hall, Christmas, 1960's, Burbank City Hall, New Year, 1965 and Old Burbank seals. Also, Starlight Bowl 1965 Program and "Oklahoma" at the Starlight Bowl, Sept. 20/21, 1965.

9/24/07 - Posted A Notable Barrel Roll!

9/7/07 - Posted a link to Burbank Autobooks/Aerobooks - Since 1951. Thanks to Jim Baldridge for pointing it out!

9/4/07 - Posted a photo of Barbara Eden at the Golden Mall. Thanks, Ron Green!

8/28/07 - Posted a link to How To Hide An Airplane Factory.

8/14/07 - Posted Compass Tree Park.

7/12/07 - Well, here's something that I didn't know: in 1945 there was a camp (or two) in Burbank for Japanese-Americans who were interred during the war. They were staging places on Winona Ave. and also Magnolia Blvd. for them to live while they were finding permanent housing. I added a very incomplete page here.

7/11/07 - Added What Hasn't Changed in Burbank.

5/25/07 - Added a link to a youtube video: The Coral Cafe Ghost.

5/23/07 - Added some text from a reader to the Burbank's Space Capsule of Love article.

5/8/07 - Posted 1953 Plane Crash!

3/26/07 - Posted Freddie Sanchez Day and A Wartime Encounter!

3/9/07 - Posted Fire at Columbia Ranch!

2/9/07 - Posted A Softer Side of Lockheed and If you live in Burbank you know this is true!

2/1/07 - Posted Steingold's Art Van.

1/24/07 - Posted Elaine Hampton's fine Dartmouth photo to the top of my Snow in Burbank article.

1/22/07 - Posted a article about Burbank's T&A Hobby Lobby of fond recollection.

1/18/07 - RuthAnn Talley adds some historical comments to the Tribute to Burbank's Small Grocery Stores piece.

1/11/07 - Chris Besenty weighs in on The First Real Blackout in Burbank article. (Scroll down.) Was it perhaps really "The Battle of Los Angeles?"

1/4/07 - Here's a good one: what do air raids in Burbank and Elmer Fudd have in common? Added Joe Brown's comments to the The First Real Blackout in Burbank article. (Scroll down.)

1/3/07 - Happy New Year! Added a couple of photos from Sylvia Dodson Novak to the Snow in Burbank article.

12/11/06 - Posted Don Iwerks' photo of the Starlight Hills, early 1960's - thanks, Dan Krattiger! Also, added some commentary to Olive Rec Center built and Burbank Blvd. (before the overpass).

12/8/06 - My father-in-law Don Bilyeu adds some commentary to the The First Real Blackout in Burbank article.

12/7/06 - For Pearl Harbor Day (65 years ago today), Lou Schirm takes us back to the evening of January 24th, 1942, and describes The First Real Blackout in Burbank.

12/5/06 - This web site is three years old today. Cool.

11/27/06 - Posted Burbank Country Club pool view.

11/9/06 - Posted "The Fastest Guys Out There." (I think the SR-71, and not the Tonight Show, was the greatest thing to come out of Burbank.)

10/30/06 - Posted "His Old Haunts" about director Tim Burton returning to Burbank.

10/11/06 - In an unusual step for me, I have posted images from the 1984 "Burbank Champions of the Past" calendar to the History Page. (It's unusual because when I was in junior and senior high school I hated jocks. But having taken up rugby in my middle age I am now somewhat better disposed towards athletes and sports.)

10/4/06 - Posted Burbank Blvd. (before the overpass).

9/15/06 - Posted Lockheed Airport, 1930's, San Fernando Road, c. 1912, San Fernando Road, 1927, San Fernando Road, 1940's, Puzzling local politics image, Bored Young Men blocking San Fernando Road (for lack of a better title) and Olive Ave. and San Fernando Road, c. 1915-1920.

9/11/06 - Posted Don Ray's article about Genio's. Also posted Palm Avenue, 1950's, Burbank at Night, 1950's and San Fernando Road, 1959.

8/14/06 - Posted Vic Tayback, who was a student of Burbank High School (where Mike and I attended).

7/20/06 - Posted Lockheed during wartime and Pilot's eye view of the Lockheed Airport, 1929.

7/18/06 - Posted Lockheed Plant B-1 changes. Also posted Glenoaks and Cohasset, 1960's and Welcome to Burbank: San Fernando Road, 1950's.

7/17/06 - Posted Welcome to Burbank: Victory and Elm, Welcome to Burbank: Glenoaks and Alameda, Welcome to Burbank: Barham Blvd., Welcome to Burbank: Riverside Drive, Welcome to Burbank: Victory and Clybourne, Welcome to Burbank: Magnolia Blvd., 1968, Olive and Barham, 1960's.

7/14/06 - Posted 30 May 1944: Captain Mingay Day in Burbank to the existing Captain Henry Mingay page (scroll to bottom). Also posted Old Police and Fire Station and Golden Girl Jan Chronert to the Golden Mall page. (Sure, Mayor Compton is in the photo, too, but who's looking at him?)

7/13/06 - Posted "Beautiful Downtown Burbank" postcard #1, "Beautiful Downtown Burbank" postcard #2 and "Beautiful Downtown Burbank" postcard #3. Also posted Olive Rec Center stadium and diamond, Looking up Walnut, 1950, Burbank from the dump, 1949, Burbank from the dump, 1955, Olive Ave. at night, San Fernando Road and Alameda, 1950's and San Fernando Road and Alameda, 1960's. Finally, I address the phrase "Beautiful Downtown Burbank."

7/12/06 - Posted a major new collection of photos that ought to reawaken the dormant memory cells of Burbankers: The Burbank Golden Mall. Also posted the L-1011 Building and San Fernando Road, 1960's.

7/11/06 - Posted Olive Rec Center built, Olive Rec Center baseball stadium and Magnolia and First.

7/10/06 - Posted Unimart, Western City Disposal Area and Jerry Colonna and some Burbank baseball players. I also restructed the front page into sub-pages, so it looks less junky.

7/7/06 - Posted The Dip, The back of The Dip, The Five Points, Olive Avenue Bridge being built and Olive Avenue Bridge complete.

6/29/06 - Posted Martinos - A Burbank Bakery Institution.

5/19/06 - Bob Meza explains the The 1968 Jet Crash in Burbank!

4/19/06 - Posted a link to The Battle of Burbank, 5 October 1945 (wikipedia entry).

4/10/06 - Posted a link to Ron Dickson's Aviation History of the San Fernando Valley.

4/3/06 - Posted some photos to the Henry Mingay article.

3/17/06 - Posted Sargents.

3/13/06 - About that 1968 airplane crash in Burbank, Internet correspondent William Stevens has found a page that lists aviation accidents which describes it thus: "09/13/1968 N HOLLYWOOD,CALIF N148E AERO COMDR 1121A FATAL (2)," so it may not be a Burbank thing despite the copy. I'll leave it up anyway - what the heck? Also posted A Tribute to Burbank's Small Grocery Stores.

3/9/06 - Posted two UPI Telephoto images of a 1968 airplane crash in Burbank. Do you remember it? I don't.

1/31/06 - Posted an image of Henry Mingay's marker to the Henry Mingay page.

1/26/06 - Posted some interesting new information to the Henry Mingay page.

12/13/05 - Posted Burbank High School Athletics Ninety Years Ago.

12/2/05 - Posted the Old Burbank Patch.

11/8/05 - Posted a link for The Road Kings of Burbank (est. 1952).

8/24/05 - Posted The Burbank Flag.

7/18/05 - Posted links to Rick Crescitelli's Burbank High and John Burroughs High in memoriam pages (on bottom of main page).

6/27/05 - Posted Monrovia Van de Kamp.

2/23/05 - Posted Burbankia Exclusive! Jay Leno driving a Stanley Steamer in Burbank!

2/9/05 - Finished adding all of the images to the A History of Burbank page. The next time I propose converting an entire book into HTML, somebody slap me upside the head.

2/8/05 - Added 38 more images to the A History of Burbank page. More to come. Also split it up into the three chapters for ease in downloading.

2/7/05 - Added 23 more images to the A History of Burbank page. More to come.

2/4/05 - Added 17 images to the A History of Burbank page. More to come.

11/16/04 - Added Larry Maxam: Burbank's Only Medal of Honor Recipient

8/27/04 - Added The U.S.S. Enterprise - Made in Burbank!

8/9/04 - Added two modern day images of the Jeffries Barn to the Jeffries Barn article.

7/6/04 - Added an image of a similar windmill restaurant to the The Van de Kamp's Windmill Restaurant image.

6/22/04 - Added 1960's Gelson's Ad - I went to Junior High with that little girl in the shopping cart!

6/18/04 - Added A Rare Visit Up the Tower of the Burbank City Hall - You haven't been here before.

6/16/04 - Added John Burroughs High Class of 1955 - just to show how commendably fair-minded a Burbank High graduate can be!

6/3/04 - Added The Mabel Monohan House today. Click here to see who Mabel Monohan was, if you don't know. Many years ago, when I was but a boy, one night as we were driving back home after dinner through the dark residential streets of Burbank my father mentioned that a famous murder had occurred in the town many years ago. One idle afternoon about twenty-five years later I recalled what Dad had told me and started an Internet search, which led to my learning about the 1953 Mabel Monohan murder - and the famous (but historically flawed) movie "I Want to Live!" starring Susan Hayward. Now you know about it!

5/11/04 - Added 1891 Farmhouse Demolition - Make way for yet another graceless condo.

4/22/04 - Added A Lockheed P-38 Returns to Burbank!

3/10/04 - Added Lockheed P-38 watches.

3/5/04 - Added Summer Concert at Stough Park, 1945.

3/4/04 - Added 1949: Snow in Burbank! and Burbank's Space Capsule of Love.

2/26/04 - Added The James M. Cain House.

1/23/04 - Added Mike McDaniel's article/letter The Myth of Neighborhood in the R4 Areas of Burbank.

1/12/04 - Added Bruce Petty's "Growing Up in the Motion Picture Business" (Burbank)

1/9/04 - Added Grampa Dutch Cronkite's poem.

12/17/03 - Added plaque photos to the Jeffries Barn article and posted Turkey Crossing, 1942. (Thanks, Mike!) Also posted A History of Burbank, 1967.

12/16/03 - Added Turkey Crossing.

12/12/03 - Added an excerpt from a Burbank history to the The Jeffries Barn article, which indicates that Jeffries had an international trade!

12/10/03 - Posted Henry Mingay, Burbank's Celebrated Civil War Veteran.

12/5/03 - Put the website up on the Internet! The framework established, Mike McDaniel and I can now start developing material for it.