'''GLENDALE'''

(Interwiki: IPAc-en » icon|ˈ|ɡ|l|ɛ|n|d|eɪ|l) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the city population is 191,719, down from 194,973 at the 2000 census. making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and the 22nd largest city in the state of California. It is also one of the two large cities in the United States that shares its name with a larger American city (Glendale, Arizona).Interwiki: Citation needed » date=December 2011
Glendale lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The city is bordered to the northwest by the Sun Valley and Tujunga neighborhoods of Los Angeles; to the northeast by La Cañada Flintridge and the unincorporated area of La Crescenta; to the west by Burbank and Griffith Park; to the east by Eagle Rock and Pasadena; to the south by the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles; and to the southeast by Glassell Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Golden State, Ventura, Glendale, and Foothill freeways run through the city.
Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery contains the remains of many noted celebrities and local residents. Glendale is also home to one of the largest communities of Armenians in the United States, with one in four people in Glendale being Armenian.

HISTORY

Category: Image - :Glendale-1870s.jpg|thumb|left|The Glendale area in the 1870s.
The area was long inhabited by the Tongva people (or "People of the Earth"), who were later renamed the Gabrieleños by the Spanish missionaries, after the nearby Mission San Gabriel Arcángel.
In 1798, José María Verdugo, a corporal in the Spanish army from Baja California, received the Rancho San Rafael from Governor Diego de Borica, formalizing his possession and use of land on which he had been grazing livestock and farming since 1784. Rancho San Rafael was a Spanish concession, of which 25 were made in California. Unlike the later Mexican land grants, the concessions were similar to grazing permits, with the title remaining with the Spanish crown.
In 1860 His grandson Teodoro Verdugo built the Verdugo Adobe, which is the oldest building in Glendale. The property is the location of the Oak of Peace where early Californio leaders including Pio Pico met in 1847 and decided to surrender to Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont.
Verdugo's descendants sold the ranch in various parcels, some of which are included in present-day Atwater Village, Eagle Rock, and Highland Park neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
Category: Image - :Glendale-1910.jpg|thumb|left|Glendale, 1910.
In 1884, residents gathered to form a town and chose the name "Glendale". Residents to the southwest formed "Tropico" in 1887. The Pacific Electric Railway brought streetcar service in 1904. Interwiki: Citation needed » date=April 2011
Glendale incorporated in 1906, and annexed Tropico 12 years later. An important civic Category: wiktionary - :booster|booster of the era was Leslie Coombs Brand (1859–1925), who built an estate in 1904 called El Miradero featuring an eye-catching mansion whose architecture combined characteristics of Spanish, Moorish, and Indian styles, copied from the East Indian Pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair) held in Chicago, which he visited. Brand loved to fly, and built a private airstrip in 1919 and hosted "fly-in" parties, providing a direct link to the soon-to-be-built nearby Grand Central Airport. The grounds of El Miradero are now city-owned Brand Park and the mansion is the Brand Library, according to the terms of his will. Brand partnered with Henry E. Huntington to bring the Pacific Electric Railway, or the "Red Cars," to the area. Today, he is memorialized by one of the city's main thoroughfares, Brand Boulevard.
Category: Image - :Glendale-Brand-1915.jpg|thumb|right|Looking south on Brand Blvd, 1915.
The city's population rose from 13,756 in 1920 to 62,736 in 1930. The Forest Lawn Memorial Park opened in 1917. Pioneering endocrinologist and entrepreneur Dr. Henry R. Harrower opened his clinic in Glendale in 1920, which for many years was the largest business in the city. The American Green Cross, an early conservation and tree preservation society, was formed in 1926 (it disbanded three years later and the current organization of that name is unrelated). In 1964, Glendale was selected by George Lincoln Rockwell to be the West Coast headquarters of the American Nazi Party. Its offices, on Colorado Street in the downtown section of the city, remained open until the early 1980s.
In 1977 and 1978 ten murdered women were found in and around Glendale in what became known as the case of the Hillside Strangler. The murders were the work of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, the latter of whom resided at 703 East Colorado Street where most of the murders took place.

GEOGRAPHY

Category: Image - :Glendale panorama.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Glendale from the southwest, with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background.
Glendale is located at the juncture of two large valleys, the San Fernando and the San Gabriel. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of Interwiki: convert » 79.212|km2|mi2|1|abbr=on. Interwiki: convert » 30.5|sqmi|km2 of it is land and Interwiki: convert » 0.13|sqmi|km2 of it (0.43%) is water. It is bordered to the north by the foothill communities of La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta, and Tujunga; to the south by the Atwater Village community incorporated by the city of Los Angeles; to the east by Pasadena and Eagle Rock (also incorporated within Los Angeles); and to the west by the city of Burbank.

ECONOMY

According to the City's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are as follows (with number of employees given): City of Glendale (2,216), Glendale Adventist Medical Center (2,126), Nestlé (1,521), Glendale Memorial Medical Center (1,433), Glendale Community College (1,408) Public Storage (1,111)
Glendale Unified School District (1,085), Walt Disney Imagineering (928), Acco Engineering Systems (824) and Diagnostic Laboratories (740). Other companies based in Glendale include DineEquity, DreamWorks Animation, and PS Business Parks.

DEMOGRAPHICS

Interwiki: USCensusPop »
| 1910=2746
| 1920=13536
| 1930=62736
| 1940=82582
| 1950=95702
| 1960=119442
| 1970=132664
| 1980=139060
| 1990=180038
| 2000=194973
| 2010=191719

POLITICS

The city of Glendale, along with neighboring Burbank and Pasadena, falls under California's 29th district in the United States House of Representatives. Congressman Adam Schiff has represented the district since 2000, and his vocal stances on issues regarding U.S.-Armenia relations reflect the large Armenian presence in the district.
In the state legislature Glendale is located in the 21st Senate District, represented by Democrat Carol Liu, and in the 38th (4%) and 43rd (96%) Assembly Districts, represented by Republican Cameron Smyth and Democrat Mike Gatto respectively. Federally, Glendale is located in California's 29th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +12 and is represented by Democrat Adam Schiff.

EDUCATION

The Glendale Unified School District operates the public schools in Glendale. The GUSD high schools include Glendale High School, Herbert Hoover High School, Clark Magnet High School, Crescenta Valley High School located in La Crescenta and Allan F. Daily High School. A number of private schools also operate in Glendale, including Chamlian Armenian School, Holy Family High School, Salem Lutheran School and Glendale Adventist Academy. Glendale is also home to Glendale College.


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