Useful Links
- Eagle Rock Centennial coming in 2011! Follow the planning.
- Eagle Rock Livability
- Eagle Rock, CA . com provides information for local community members regarding the history of Eagle Rock, links to organizations, schools and information about coming events ... Of particular interest is the short narrative,
- Town of Eagle Rock : Yesterday and Today. Historical pictures for this site were provided by the ERVHS.
- An interesting montage of pictures is found on historypin.org. Click here to find displays for Eagle Rock and vicinity. You can contribute your own pictures as well.
- We've made into Wikipedia! Click here to view Eagle Rock's entry in this online encyclopedia.
- Eagle Rock: Community Pride through Triumphs and Tribulations (A Research Project by Occidental College Sociology student Jean Won)
- TERA (The Eagle Rock Association)
- Eagle Rock Chamber of Commerce
- Eagle Rock High School Alumni Association
- Women's Twentieth Century Club of Eagle Rock
- The Highland Park Heritage Trust website includes very useful information relating to northeast Los Angeles.
- The original inhabitants of Eagle Rock and vicinity were the Tongva people. For more information about them, visit http://tongva.com/ and http://tongvatribe.net/
- The History of Los Angeles (Aizman Law Firm)
- Los Angeles Public Library's Photo Collection has a number of pictures that you may view online. Type in "Eagle Rock", select 'Photo Collection' and click the Search Button for a listing.
- Los Angeles City Historical Society
- Los Angeles City Zoning and Map Access System (ZIMAS)
- Here's an article from the Los Feliz Register on the Eagle Rock Recreation Center - go to page 11.
- Here is a listing of Los Angeles County Offices which is useful for tracking down information on our community.
- On May 12, 1944 an Army Mustang fighter plane crashed, exploded and burned less than 500 feet from the heart of the Eagle Rock business district. The pilot died instantly and the house of the Hopf family at 5215 Eagle Rock Blvd. was destroyed.
Plane Crashes Near Center of Eagle Rock:Gasoline-Fed Flames Destroy House; Fighter's Pilot Killed
- What about books and newspapers?
- Occidental College in partnership with the Highland Park Heritage Trust and the Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society has digitized content from the Northeast Newspapers. Use this link to locate NELA newspapers in the California newspapers grouping. More issues will be added to the coverages noted.
- The Eagle Rock Sentinel was our local newspaper for over 40 years. ERVHS has this on microfilm as well as other former newspapers that served our community.
- The Boulevard Sentinel is our present local newspaper.
- The Arroyo Seco Journal also covers news in the Eagle Rock area.
- Eagle Rock : then and now was put out by the Chamber of Commerce in 1987. It includes a brief history of Eagle Rock.
- Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Mt. Washington & the Harnsberger's covers northeast Los Angeles history.
- Eagle Rock is also mentioned in Within the vale of Annandale : a picture history of south western Pasadena and vicinity.
Did you know that the California state song, I love You California, was written by F. B. Silverwood, an Eagle Rock resident?
The California State Library tells us: "California's official state song is "I Love You, California", written by F.B. Silverwood, a Los Angeles merchant. The words were subsequently put to music by Alfred Frankenstein, a former conductor for the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. It was the official song of expositions held in San Francisco and San Diego in 1915, and was played aboard the first ship to go through the Panama Canal. In 1951, the State Legislature passed a resolution designating it as California's state song. During the years following, several attempts were made to make other songs such as "California, Here I Come" the official state song. Finally, in 1988, "I Love You, Califomia" became the official state song by law." (http://www.library.ca.gov/history/cahinsig.cfm)
I.
I love you, California, you're the greatest state of all.
I love you in the winter, summer, spring and in the fall.
I love your fertile valleys; your dear mountains I adore.
I love your grand old ocean and I love her rugged shore.
Chorus
Where the snow crowned Golden Sierras
Keep their watch o'er the valleys bloom,
It is there I would be in our land by the sea,
Every breeze bearing rich perfume.
It is here nature gives of her rarest. It is Home Sweet Home to me,
And I know when I die I shall breathe my last sigh
For my sunny California.
II.
I love your red-wood forests - love your fields of yellow grain.
I love your summer breezes and I love your winter rain.
I love you, land of flowers; land of honey, fruit and wine.
I love you, California; you have won this heart of mine.
III.
I love your old gray Missions - love your vineyards stretching far.
I love you, California, with your Golden Gate ajar.
I love your purple sun-sets, love your skies of azure blue.
I love you, California; I just can't help loving you.
IV.
I love you, Catalina, you are very dear to me.
I love you, Tamalpais, and I love Yosemite.
I love you, Land of Sunshine, Half your beauties are untold.
I loved you in my childhood, and I'll love you when I'm old.