Talk:La Crescenta-Montrose, California

The clean r (talk) 20:40, 17 February 2024 (UTC)== Schools ==

Is it appropriate to list schools in the area? Other articles on cities in the area don't have a list of schools. --Chlorophyll 21:50, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It is normal for articles of smaller cities to list schools. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:20, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

I have lived in the Montrose area of Glendale, CA for nine years (and the general area for 26 years). Montrose is a neighborhood in the City of Glendale. The Wikipedia reference to La Crescenta and Montose as an unicorporated part of California is wrong. Montrose is part of Glendale as Hollywood is part of the City of Los Angeles. La Crescenta is unicorporated by choice.

I found a reference to a park in Montrose that mentions that it is in Glendale - http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/ada-survey/Parks%20Findings/Montrose%20Park/Montrose%20Park.pdf

You can also go the the website for the City of Glendale http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/

Regards, Tom Petersmeyer

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Wcquayle (talk • contribs) 17:13, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

The clean r (talk) 20:40, 17 February 2024 (UTC)17 year resident of Montrose chiming in here. The relationship between La Crescenta, Montrose, Glendale, and Los Angeles County is inaccurate as currently presented in this article. 1) La Crescenta and Montrose are distinct entities, not a combined one, except to the extent that they remain one geographic area in the same way the Crescenta Valley means more or less the same thing. 2) Portions of Montrose are within the boundaries of the City of Glendale, other portions are within unincorporated LA County. Have a look at the street signs throughout Montrose to see the difference depending on address. Some are Glendale style, others are fairly new ones added by the county. 3) Depending upon your address, you will have different representatives in Congress, as the boundaries between 30th District (Adam Schiff) and 28th District (Judy Chu) run through the middle of Montrose. This entire article should really be split between being one article about La Crescenta, and the other about Montrose, and this current article turned into an overlay mentioning both, called Crescenta Valley, or La Crescenta-Montrose if people are really attached to that (despite being inaccurate and adding to the confusion).

Public Safety...
How about that the Glendale Police Department now provides police services to the La Crescenta Area, yet the L.A. County Sheriff's Station has a regional station in that same area?...Michaela92399 01:56, 31 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I think a section on the general confusion about who is responsible for what in the area is appropriate. You can live in Glendale, LA, or an unincorporated areas.  The cities, police/fire, utilities, schools, and the postal service all have differing opinions about who does what and where.  For example, I clearly live in LA but I have a La Crescenta zip code.  Zip codes are not the best indicate of what city you are in, so I am continually explaining to various LA service providers that I do indeed live in LA.  A friend of mine lives in an unincorporated area and has Glendale utilities, but not Glendale fire/police.  I shoulda picked a place clearly in Glendale !  --Scott.kelley (talk) 05:02, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Unreferenced article
This article has been tagged for referencing since January 2010, but nobody has stepped up to provide sources or inline links. If there is no objection, I will go through the article to remove all of the unreferenced material that may or may not be true. Of course I will look for sources before doing so, but I hope the people who originally added the material will also add the sources as to where the info came from. You can just put the sources references right in with the text, and somebody else will put it into footnote form for you. Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 23:21, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Guthrie song
'The flood was commemorated in Woody Guthrie's song "Los Angeles New Year's Flood".' Do we have a source for the La Crescenta flood being the inspiration for the Guthrie song, or is this just speculation? GeorgeLouis (talk) 15:03, 21 May 2013 (UTC)


 * The lyrics here are incomplete, or perhaps they represent a version of the song as Guthrie sometimes sang it.  The lyrics here  are the ones that he sings on the third LP of Woody's Library of Congress Recordings (available on the Some Folk CD box set).  Note the following lines:

Twas in the early springtime, Of Nineteen Thirty Four. The waters filled the canyons, Through the city poured.... The little towns of Montrose, Glendale and Burbank, too. From Flintridge to Tujunga, Along that mountain blue. They all were struck like lightning, Down that mountain rolled. The wild Los Angeles River, In that fatal New Year’s flood.


 * This certainly refers to the Dec 1933/Jan 1934 flood in the Crescenta Valley, even though Guthrie (as usual) gets a few details mixed up, such as his reference to the Los Angeles River, and his use of the word "springtime" (which is belied by his explicit reference to "New Year's night" -- my guess is that Guthrie, being from Oklahoma, instinctively assumed that rain happens in the Spring -- not in the Winter as it does in Los Angeles!).


 * Is the link to this blog page a sufficient reference, or do we need one of the biographies of Guthrie? I'm curious when he wrote this song; Guthrie was not in California in 1933-34, so perhaps he learned of the flood sometime after arriving. &mdash; Lawrence King ( talk ) 19:41, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for the fulsome response. I am not going to make a fuss. I assume good faith and am supportive of your addition to this article. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 21:29, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Notable People
Is this even necessary?

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La Crescenta-Montrose flood (1933 and 1934) article
I've started Draft:La Crescenta-Montrose flood (1933 and 1934), and I would appreciate some help from people who know more about the history of Los Angeles County, California than I do. All I did (to start the article) was copy the "#The Great Flood of 1934" section of the La Crescenta-Montrose, California article. Anyone willing to help create a true article about this flood? -- RobLa (talk) 23:51, 12 August 2022 (UTC)