Flashback Friday

Pictures in old yearbooks and other professional photos show the Pumpkin up there and then later it is gone

Located on the triangular corner where Winona & Naomi meet San Fernando Road

Ask any vintage Burbanker and they will most likely have a story or two about The Dip

In 1946 , a group called the Burbank Gold Star Mothers, along with the brother of one Burbank Soldier, began raising funds to create a Memorial Rose Garden at McCambridge Park

The original Burbank City Hall was on the corner of 3rd and Olive across from the current City hall

Yes Burbank once had a tractor of its own

Each Memorial Day the names of those who were lost are read aloud and a Red Rose placed on their monument to assure that their names ring out in our city once again so their sacrifice is not forgotten

Chances are that if you are familiar with vintage photographs of Burbank you have seen this Wolfe’s work yourself

Behind the main building of The Olive Recreation Center stands a small building that once had some of the best local theater performances in the area. Many actors got a start there, or performed there to the delight of the audiences to see such Hollywood talent up close

Early on a Cemetery was built with a large shrine erected called the “Portal of the Folded Wings” where aviators can be laid to rest