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On August 26, 1981, a three-year-old girl named Kelly Keen was left alone while her mother Cathy did some daily chores. Kelly was watching educational television programs in the living room of the family's home in the Chevy Chase Canyon neighborhood [1] of Glendale, California, but she let herself out the front door and stepped into the driveway, where she encountered an urban coyote.
Toonerville Rifa 13 was formed in the 1930s in North East Los Angeles and South Glendale. Prior to taking the name of Toonerville in the early 1940s, the gang was known as the "Latin Souls." The change to "Toonerville" came in the 1940s and named after the Pacific Electric Railway trolley that used to run through Atwater Village and South Glendale.
On February 6, 1996, seven people were killed in the worst arson-murder in the city's history. The fire killed a Glendale mother, Turan Avanesian, and her six children, ages 4 to 17. Jorjik Avanesian, who was convicted of dousing his family's one-bedroom apartment in Glendale with gasoline and setting it on fire, later killed himself in jail.
The 2005 Glendale train crash occurred on January 26, 2005, at 6:03 a.m. PST, when a Metrolink commuter train collided with a sport utility vehicle [2] that had been parked on the tracks by a suicidal man in an industrial area of Glendale, California, just east of the Los Angeles city limits, causing the deaths of 11 people and injuring 177 more.
Current entrance of Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California. The Great Mausoleum features eleven terraces and over 100 stained glass windows. The massive building, which contains the same amount of steel and concrete as a 70-story skyscraper, embodies an eclectic mix of architectural styles, and is the park's artistic centerpiece.
Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley [10] and Verdugo Mountains [11] regions of Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the 2020 U.S. Census the population was 196,543, [ 7 ] up from 191,719 at the 2010 census , [ 12 ] making it the 4th-most populous city in Los Angeles County and the 24th-most populous city in California .
Efren Saldivar (born September 30, 1969) is an American serial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist at Adventist Health Glendale, named at that time Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale, California.
Grand View Memorial Park and Crematory is located at 1341 Glenwood Road in Glendale, California. The 25-acre (10 ha) cemetery [22] [48] has 112,000 spaces for interments. [37] About 44,000 spaces exist for in-ground, full-body burials; [48] the remaining spaces can accommodate only cremated remains. As of 2007, there were about 40,000 total ...