And its popular studio tour is one of the best in the greater LA area. Founded in 1923, it is one of the 'Big Six' major American film studios, and employs approximately 8000 people.

has operations in film, television, and video games. One of the “Big Six” American film studios, Warner Bros. Warner Brothers Entertainment – 4000 Warner Blvd Here is a sampling of the studios based in Burbank, which employ tens of thousands of people. Burbank itself became a household name in the 1960s, when Johnny Carson’s “The Tonight Show” let its viewers know they were broadcasting from “beautiful downtown Burbank.” That introduction became a popular catchphrase, cementing Burbank as a show business epicenter in the minds people all across the country. Studiosīilling itself as “the media capital of the world”, the title is well deserved. By the 1920’s, the film industry gravitated towards Burbank and in 1928 First National Pictures was taken over by four brothers with the last name of Warner. The city of Burbank was eventually incorporated in 1911. In 1886 a group of speculators bought much of Burbank's land holdings for $250,000 and subsequently formed the Providencia Land, Water, and Development Company and began developing the land, calling the new town Burbank, and began selling farm lots on May 1, 1887. The first train passed through Burbank on April 5, 1874, creating a boom and people began streaming into Southern California. A shrewd businessman foreseeing the value of the railroad industry, Burbank sold Southern Pacific Railroad a right-of-way through his property for $1. David Burbank, a New Hampshire-born dentist who purchased the land in present-day Burbank as a sheep ranch in 1867. If it did, you’d have to add a million dollars to the price of every home. The only thing it doesn’t have is a beach. The diversity of the city includes: a hillside community with breathtaking views a vibrant downtown core and adjacent industrial parks, which straddle the 5 freeway a world-class collection of studios, from the very large to the small independent variety neighborhoods in the flats of the valley filled with homes that, in large part, retain their original small-town charm and are marked by an assortment of hipster commercial strips a significant rancho equestrian area and finally, an airport that I prefer over LAX any time that I’m able. 4,000,000), Burbank is nearly a complete microcosm of its bigger brother. And though it’s a small fraction of the size of the city of L.A. It is its own separate, incorporated city.

Snuggling itself into the southeast end of the San Fernando valley, and twelve miles north of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank, is not a neighborhood of L.A.

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