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Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - History |  | Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - History: Encyclopedia II - Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - History |  | Victor Girard Kleinberger (later known as simply Victor Girard) bought 2,886 acres (12 km²) in the area and founded Girard in 1922. He sought to attract residents and businesses by developing the land, advertising in newspapers, and planting 120,000 trees. Although much of his development provided a dubious facade of economic activity in Girard (local lore has it that in order to attract development he erected false store fronts on Ventura Blvd., for which he spent time in jail), the Girard Golf Course completed in 1925 continues to operate today as the Woodland Hills Country Club, and h ...
See also:Woodland Hills Los Angeles California, Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - History, Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - Education, Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - Famous residents, Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - Businesses |  | | Woodland Hills Los Angeles California, Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - Businesses, Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - Education, Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - Famous residents, Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - History |  | |
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Woodland Hills Los Angeles California - History
Victor Girard Kleinberger (later known as simply Victor Girard) bought 2,886 acres (12 km²) in the area and founded Girard in 1922. He sought to attract residents and businesses by developing the land, advertising in newspapers, and planting 120,000 trees. Although much of his development provided a dubious facade of economic activity in Girard (local lore has it that in order to attract development he erected false store fronts on Ventura Blvd., for which he spent time in jail), the Girard Golf Course completed in 1925 continues to operate today as the Woodland Hills Country Club, and his scheme was successful in attracting interest in the community.
The town suffered through the Great Depression yet survived. In 1941, the community was renamed Woodland Hills, an appropriate name owing to all the trees that Girard had planted years earlier. Harry Warner came along in the 1940s and bought 1,100 acres (4.5 km²) in the area for a horse ranch. The modern Warner Center commercial zone is named for Harry and features several high-rise buildings, hotels, and shopping centers in Woodland Hills. A major transit hub — the western end of the Orange Line — opened here in October 2005.
The population living in Woodland Hills nears 70,000.
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