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Calabasas History 

The Calabasas History Collection contains important books, photographs, pamphlets, maps, magazines, newspapers and transcripts of interviews with local residents. Browse the website at the Calabasas History Project.

Collection Hours:

To see the Calabasas History Collection, ask questions or make an appointment contact Brian Rooney at archives@calabasaslibrary.org or 818-224-1757.

The collection is housed at the Calabasas Library, 200 Civic Center Way, Calabasas, CA 91302.

Watch videos from the Calabasas History Project on the Library Academy.
https://my.nicheacademy.com/calabasaspubliclibrary?category=30892

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Calabasas History Project at the Library

Pre-cityhood Calabasas and the local area's history is being logged, scanned, and now available for everyone to see! Calabasas Archivist, Brian Rooney spends his days at the library preserving the archives.
To see the images visit the site: www.CalabasasHistory.org

If you have historic photos or items related to Calabasas or surrounding communities, please contact Library Archivist Brian Rooney at archives@calabasaslibrary.org or 818-224-1757 so that he can scan your items for our archives and return them to you.

Programs are sponsored by the Calabasas-Las Virgenes Historical Society and the Friends of the Calabasas Library.  

Join the Calabasas-Las Virgenes Historical Society  
Donate to the Friends at Venmo @CalabasasFriends
 

ARCHIVE VIDEO OF PAST EVENTS:

On Thursday, May 13, 2021 via Zoom, Jack Feldman presented a History of Water in Early Los Angeles. 
Watch the program on YouTube. 

 

 

On Thursday, July 23, 2020 via Zoom, author and historian Jon Wilkman discussed his book "Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America" about the history of American nonfiction filmmaking and discuss local history.  Watch the program on YouTube. 

Mr. Wilkman is also the author of Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles about the St. Francis Dam in 1928. 

His latest book is available here

For more information about presentations, call the library at 818-225-7616, visit the Calabasas-Las Virgenes Historical Society Society page on the Library’s website or the online calendar at http://www.cityofcalabasas.com/library.html.


City of Calabasas Founders Panel- April 7, 2016 at 6:30pm
List of Historical Landmarks in Calabasas

Images of America - Calabasas

 

The early years of Calabasas offer a colorful history full of buried treasure, cattle and sheep ranches, stagecoaching, ghost sightings, and some of Southern California’s roughest and toughest residents. Between the 1920s and 1970s, countless films and television episodes were filmed in the west San Fernando Valley area alone. It was a time when Westerns ruled the scene, and the studios bought up huge tracts of underdeveloped acreage in the hills around Calabasas to serve as movie ranches. In banning secondhand smoke, plastic bags, and Styrofoam, Calabasas has been on the forefront of enacting environmental stewardship to preserve its historical roots and protect its open spaces.

To purchase the book, please email Cimberly Castellon at cimcastellon@gmail.comor James Bozajian at jrbozajian@earthlink.netor on Amazon -http://www.amazon.com/Calabasas-Images-America-Cimberly-Castellon/dp/1467134155/

This book was published November 30, 2015.

  

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