Eagle Rock, California
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Located on America's Historic Route 66
Nestled between the southern California communities of Pasadena and Glendale, Eagle Rock was one of the first homestead settlements in Los Angeles. Though it officially became a city in 1906 and was incorporated in 1911, Eagle Rock was settled by farmers and businessmen in the early 1900s. Prior to that, the valley was home to descendants of the Shoshone Indians, who lived near the famous Eagle Rock for which the town is named. Through the years, the area has gone through many changes. Some of the most beautiful estates in southern California were built in Eagle Rock during the prosperous 1920s. Despite being part of metropolitan Los Angeles, the area still maintains a unique hometown character. Eagle Rock is presently a thriving community, and home to one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the west coast, Occidental College. The town features several popular restaurants, trendy coffee shops, eclectic art galleries, hair salons, fashion boutiques, and even a wine-tasting bar.
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Eagle Rock is an artistic and affluent hilly neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles, California, United States. It is bordered by the city of Glendale on the north and west, Highland Park on the south, and the cities of Pasadena and South Pasadena on the east. Major thoroughfares include Eagle Rock Boulevard, Colorado Boulevard, and Figueroa Street. The Glendale and Ventura freeways run along the district's western and northern edges, respectively. A massive boulder at the district's northern edge contains an indentation which casts a vaguely bird-shaped shadow on the rock at certain times of day; the neighborhood derives its name from this geological feature.
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Occidental College
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Occidental College was founded on April 20, 1887, by a group of Presbyterian clergy and laymen. The college's first term began a year later with 27 men and 13 women students, and tuition of $50 a year. Initially located in Boyle Heights, the college moved to a new campus in Los Angeles' Highland Park neighborhood in 1898. Despite a strong Presbyterian presence on its campus, Occidental cut ties to the church in 1910. In 1912, the school began construction of a new campus located in Los Angeles' Eagle Rock neighborhood. The Eagle Rock campus was to be designed by noted California Architect Myron Hunt. That same year, Occidental President John Willis Baer announced the trustees' decision to convert Oxy into an all-men's institution. However, students protested, and the idea was abandoned.
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- Occidental College grad helps former professor fight cancer
- He quickly discovered the 69-year-old patient was his former Occidental College chemistry professor, Tetsuo Otsuki, nicknamed Dr. O, who had been teaching at the Eagle Rock campus for more than 25 years. A recent story in the Occidental College ...
- The rise of hook-up culture changes the face of dating
- Lisa Wade, professor at Occidental College, blames hook-up culture for many of the issues concerning college kids' love sorrows, as dating was once a careful process that lasted a fairly long time. Cautious steps were taken to ensure the acceptance of ...
- Pomona College Caught in 'Wave of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria,' Says Professor
- "You'd think that if any place was going to be a safe haven for immigrants, it would be at colleges and universities," says Peter Dreier, a professor at Occidental College in LA proper. "But that doesn't seem to be the case at Pomona College.
- Suddenly, the pressure is off
- Sally Stone Richmond, Occidental College's director of admission, said that, based on surveys of families in past years, she advises parents to back off from nagging and "not to mention the word 'college' for several weeks." "Let the students live in ...
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Glendale, Eagle Rock, Burbank, Pasadena and Highland Park Real Estate by John Calvo - RE/MAX Realtor and Broker
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Eagle Rock Real Estate, Pasadena Real Estate, San Gabriel Valley County Real Estate, Tracy King
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Product Description: Eagle Rock grew as a small farming community just north of Los Angeles on Tongva ancestral lands that had become the great eastern pasture of the Rancho San Rafael. Eagle Rock enjoyed a geographic unity and a strong identity that revolved around its prominent namesake promontory.
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The Wiota Circle Project has been underway since 2005, when a $5,270 grant was awarded by the City of Los Angeles to improve the Wiota cul-de-sac at the 134 Freeway on and off ramp. Since groundbreaking began in 2006, hard-working volunteers have transformed a barren asphalt wasteland into a low-maintenance oasis of floral beauty. The site is punctuated by several poured concrete planters featuring carefully selected native plants and custom-designed trellises and supports. Standing proudly at the center of the Wiota Circle project is a neighborhood identification marker designed by artist Bill Stutz. The marker is a poured concrete monolith based on the Eagle Rock for which the community is named. Though nearly complete, the project relies 100% on the efforts of volunteers. The community volunteers pictured above range in age from 2 to 100. 
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- Eugene Weston III dies at 87; modernist architect
- Eugene Weston III, right, is seen in 2006 with art dealer Scott Nadeau, who three years earlier bought an Eagle Rock home Weston designed in 1953 for Norman Bilderback, then a director of design at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (Myung J. Chun, ...
- Post-Market NASDAQ Movers (DEPO, PACB, OCLR, ZNGA, EROC, ZGNX, RAM, EFII, VNET ...
- By Satya Nagendra Padala: Subscribe to Satya's RSS feed The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Friday were: DepoMed, Pacific Biosciences of California, Oclaro, Zynga and Eagle Rock Energy Partners. The top after-market NASDAQ losers were: Zogenix, ...
- Is Eagle Rock the New Abode for Wild Parrots?
- ... California Parrot Project in 1994 and runs the ornithology collection at the LA County Museum of Natural History, said that parrots do move around as the seasons change, but one possibility why there appear to be more of them in Eagle Rock lately ...
- News & Notes from Eagle Rock, Echo Park & Lincoln Heights
- Suspect involved in the beating of an Eagle Rock man with skateboards and bottles has been arrested in Northern California. Times-Herald (h/t Crime Voice) Lincoln Heights jail back in the movie business. LA Observed Six violent crimes in a week puts ...
Eagle Rock Neighborhood Watch
2012 Meeting Schedule
- January 19
- February 16
- March 15
- April 19
- May 17
- June 21
- July 19
- August 7 ~ National Night Out
(Eagle Rock Plaza) - September 20
- October 18
- November 15
- No Meeting ~ Happy Holidays!
All meetings take place from 6-7pm at Eagle Rock City Hall, located on the corner of Colorado Boulevard and North Maywood Avenue. Meetings are open to the public, and are conducted by an LAPD Senior Lead Officer (SLO) dedicated to Eagle Rock. For more information, please contact the CD-14 Eagle Rock Field Office at 323-254-5295.
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- Was just doing a flyby over your neighborhood and decided Eagle Rock would look nice with sprinkling of angel dust!
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- Eagle Rock looks like a great place to visit, and even a better place to live.
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