Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California is a canyon neighborhood, like Topanga Canyon, so it's very oriented to the main canyon street, Laurel Canyon Boulevard. There are many side streets that branch off the main canyon, but most of them don't have other exits, so it remains focused on the canyon. It was first settled in the 1920s, and became a part of Los Angeles in 1923.^[1] This article is about a town in Los Angeles County. ... Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Social issues of the 1920s. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Some of the main side streets are Mount Olympus, Kirkwood, and Lookout Mountain Avenue. The zip code for at least part of the neighborhood is 90046.

It is an important transit corridor between West Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley, specifically Studio City. The division between the two can roughly be defined by the intersection of Laurel Canyon & Mulholland Drive. As of the first few months of 2005, the first section of the road on the Hollywood side had been partially washed away in a rainstorm, and traffic was still being redirected to a normally quiet residential side street going along the main drive. West Hollywoods logo illustrates the citys borders. ... San Fernando Valley The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley in southern California, lying mostly within the city limits of Los Angeles. ... Studio City is a district in the San Fernando Valley within the City of Los Angeles, California. ... Map of Mulholland Drive (orange) and Mulholland Highway (brown) in Los Angeles County. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Unlike other canyon neighborhoods, Laurel Canyon has houses lining one side of the main street most of the way up to Mulholland Drive.

Laurel Canyon itself found itself a nexus of counterculture activity and attitudes in the 1960s, becoming famous as home to many of L.A.'s top rock musicians, such as Frank Zappa, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Love. Joni Mitchell, inhabiting the home in the Canyon immortalized in the song written by Graham Nash, "Our House," would use the area as title and inspiration for her third album. The bohemian spirit from that time period endures to this day, and every year residents gather for a group photograph at the country market. In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream, a cultural equivalent of a political opposition. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, film director, and satirist. ... The Byrds (formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964) was an American rock group. ... Buffalo Springfield album cover Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived yet highly original and influential folk-rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina. ... Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada), is a musician and painter. ... Graham Nash (born 2 February 1942) is a British singer-songwriter. ... Our House was a family-oriented drama which ran early on Sunday evening on NBC from 1986 to 1988. ... Ladies of the Canyon, Joni Mitchells third album (released in 1970), featured several of Mitchells most noted songs, including Big Yellow Taxi, Woodstock and The Circle Game. Notable for its expansion of Mitchells artistic vision and its varied song topics (ranging from the aesthetic weight of celebrity...

Laurel Canyon has been mentioned in many films and novels of Los Angeles, including Laurel Canyon written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko in 2002, and is the subject of a book by Michael Walker, Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Legendary Neighborhood, published by Faber and Faber in May of 2006. Laurel Canyon is a 2002 American drama movie, written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko. ... Lisa Cholodenko earned an MFA at Columbia University Film School where she made an award winning short film Dinner Party. Her feature High Art won the National Society of Film Critics award for Ally Sheedys performance and The Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at Sundance. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Faber and Faber is a celebrated publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing the poetry of T. S. Eliot. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Among the famous places in Laurel Canyon are the Log Cabin house once-owned by silent film star Tom Mix that became home to the Zappa clan, and one that may or may not have been owned by Harry Houdini. A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... Thomas E. Mix (January 6, 1880 – October 11, 1940) was an American film actor, the star of many early Western movies. ... Zappa may refer to: Frank Zappa, an American musician Zappa (Guilty Gear) refers to a character from the 2-d fighting game Guilty Gear Zappa, a blacksmith from the RPG Chrono Cross This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was one of the most famous magicians, escapologists, and stunt performers of all time, as well as an investigator of spiritualists. ...

Between 1912 and 1918, a trackless electric trolley ran from Sunset Boulevard to the top of Lookout Mountain Road.^[2] This article refers to the mass transit vehicle running on rails. ... Sunset Boulevard (officially known as West Sunset Boulevard, except in Beverly Hills) is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. ...

Famous residents

• Frank Zappa, 1968-1993
• Eric Burdon, 1970s
• Errol Flynn, early to mid 1950s
• John Mayall, 1969-1979
• Robert Mitchum, 1940s-'60s
• Keith Moon, mid-1970s (Studio City side of Laurel Canyon)
• Slash, 1976-mid-'80s
• Joni Mitchell & Graham Nash, early 1970s
• Jennifer Aniston, early-mid 1990s
• Roman Gabriel, former quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams, lived on Skyline Drive, 1970s
• Orson Welles, lived on Greenvalley Road, late 1970s.
• Jerry Brown, 1970s.
• Dusty Springfield, 1970's
• Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. 1960s - present
• Alice Cooper, 1971-1976
• Keith Richards, 1970s
• Jim Morrison, late 1960's

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Notes

1. ^{LA_a-z LA_a-z2} Laurel Canyon. In Los Angeles A to Z (1). (1997).

 by Leonard Pitt and Dale Pitt, published by the University of California Press, Los Angeles.