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Eagle Rock is a Morgage
neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles, California. It is bordered by the city of Glendale
on the north and west, Highland Park on the south, and the city of Pasadena on the east. Major thoroughfares
include Eagle Rock Boulevard, Colorado Boulevard, and Figueroa Street. The Glendale and Ventura freeways run
along the district's western and northern edges, respectively. A massive boulder at the district's northern
edge contains an indentation which casts a vaguely bird-shaped shadow on the rock at certain times of day;
the neighborhood derives its name from this geological feature.
Eagle Rock lays claim to being a center of hipster culture in Los Angeles. It also boasts a significant
Filipino population. With an "Anytown, USA"
2nd morgage
feel to it, this
community has often been the choice as a filmlocation for neighboring film studios. Cameos include Top Gun,
Hunt for Red October, and a second-season episode of The O.C.
Prior to the arrival of European settlers, the secluded valley below the San Rafael Hills that is roughly
congruent to Eagle Rock's present boundaries was inhabited by the Tongva tribe, who hunted the game that
watered at its springs. These aboriginal inhabitants were displaced by Spanish settlers in the late 18th
century, with the area incorporated into the Rancho San Rafael. Following court battles the area known as
Rancho San Rafael was divided into 31 parcels in 1870. Benjamin Dreyfus was awarded what is now called Eagle Rock.
In the 1880s Eagle Rock existed as a farming community. The arrival of American settlers and the growth of
Los Angeles resulted in steadily increasing semi-rural development in the region throughout the late 19th century,
culminating in Eagle Rock's establishment as an independent city in 1906 and its incorporation in 1911.
In 1909, Hill Avenue, now Hill Drive, was (and still is) one of Eagle Rock's most beautiful streets. Other
streets were Royal Drive (now Mt. Royal Drive), Acacia Street (now Laverna Avenue), Kenilworth Avenue
(now Hermosa Avenue),
Los Angeles Home Values Highland Avenue (now Highland View Avenue), and Fairmont Avenue (now Maywood Avenue).
In the 1950s, newer streets such as Kincheloe Drive were extended into the hillsides for the building of
larger homes with a view of the city. Now these streets are dotted with large and expensive homes on wide lots.
Actresses Madeleine Stowe, Marley Shelton, Lindsay Wagner and famous boxer Fernando Vargas Jr. are natives of
Eagle Rock. John Steinbeck lived on Campus Road in the 1920s while lecturing briefly at Occidental College.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote Good Will Hunting while living in a home on Hill Drive in Eagle Rock.
Famous boxer Fernando Vargas Jr. Home Values
attended Eagle Rock High School from 1992 to 1998. In the movie Days Of Thunder, Tom Cruise's character was from
Eagle Rock. A house on the 5200 block of Shearin Avenue was used during the 1984 filming of Teen Wolf, starring
Michael J. Fox.
