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Roy Rogers
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Roy Rogers was an American singer and actor who was one of the most popular Western stars of his era. Known as the King of the Cowboys, he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio, in many of his films and television episodes, he appeared with his wife, Dale Evans, his golden palomino, Trigger, and his German shepherd dog, Bullet. His show was broadcast on radio for nine years and then on television from 1951 through 1957 and his productions usually featured a sidekick, often Pat Brady, Andy Devine, or George Gabby Hayes. In his later years, Rogers lent his name to the chain of Roy Rogers Restaurants. Rogers was born Leonard Slye, the son of Mattie and Andrew Andy Slye in Cincinnati, the family lived in a tenement on 2nd Street, where Riverfront Stadium would later be constructed. In 1919 the Slye family purchased a farm in Duck Run, located near Lucasville, Ohio, about 12 miles north of Portsmouth, a notable gift was a horse on which young Len Slye learned the basics of horsemanship. Living on the farm with no radio, the made their own entertainment. On Saturday nights, they often invited neighbors over for square dances, during which Len would sing, play mandolin and he also learned to yodel during this time, and he and his mother would use different yodels to communicate with each other across distances on the farm. Len attended high school in McDermott, Ohio, but after he completed his year there his family returned to Cincinnati. Realizing that his family needed his help, Len quit school. He tried to attend school, but after being ridiculed for falling asleep in class, he quit school. They stayed for four months before returning to Ohio, soon after returning, Len had the opportunity to travel again to California with Marys father-in-law, and the rest of the family followed in the spring of 1930. The Slye family rented a house near Mary, and Len. In the spring of 1931, after the company went bankrupt, Len traveled to Tulare, California. During this time he lived in a camp similar to the ones depicted in John Steinbecks novel The Grapes of Wrath. The economic hardship of the Great Depression was just as severe in California as it was in Ohio, after 19-year-old Len Slyes second arrival in Lawndale, his sister Mary suggested that he audition for the Midnight Frolic radio program, which was broadcast over KMCS in Inglewood. A few nights later, wearing a Western shirt that Mary had made for him, he overcame his shyness and appeared on the program playing guitar, singing, a few days later, he was asked to join a local country music group, the Rocky Mountaineers. He accepted the offer and became a member in August 1931
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Trigger (horse)
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Trigger was a 15.3 hands palomino horse made famous in American Western films with his owner and rider, cowboy star Roy Rogers. Trigger was born in San Diego, California, though often mistaken for a Tennessee Walking Horse, his sire was a Thoroughbred and his dam a grade mare who, like Trigger, was a palomino. Horses other than Golden Cloud also portrayed Trigger over the years, none of which was related to Golden Cloud, though Trigger remained a stallion his entire life, he was never bred and has no descendants. On the other hand, Roy Rogers used Trigger Jr, Golden Cloud made an early appearance as the mount of Maid Marian, played by Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood. A short while later, when Roy Rogers was preparing to make his first movie in a role, he was offered a choice of five rented movie horses to ride. Rogers bought him eventually in 1943 and renamed him Trigger for his quickness of both foot and mind, Trigger learned 150 trick cues and could walk 50 feet on his hind legs. They were said to have run out of places to cue Trigger, Trigger became such a ham that as soon as he heard applause he would start bowing and ruin that trick. He could sit in a chair, sign his name X with a pencil, lie down for a nap, Rogers most carefully guarded trade secret was to get Trigger housebroken. Spending as much time as he does in hotels, theaters, and hospitals, —Glenn Randall, wrangler with Hudkins Stables. Trigger became the most famous horse in film entertainment, even having his own Dell comic book recounting his exploits, Roy Rogers made many personal appearances with Trigger in tow. More than once Rogers escorted Trigger up 3-4 flights of stairs at hospitals to visit sick children. After the original Trigger died in 1965 at Rogers Hidden Hills, California ranch, Rogers arranged for Everett Wilkensen of Bischoffs Taxidermy in Los Angeles, the mount was later moved with the museum to first Victorville, California in 1976, and then to Branson, Missouri in 2003. At some point, a 24-foot replica of a rearing Trigger was produced to sit atop the Roy Rogers Museum in Victorville, the 1300-pound replica could be seen from the freeway and served as a landmark until the museum closed and moved to Branson. When the fiberglass replica of Trigger was being made, Rogers was approached by the owners of the Denver Broncos, Rogers allowed another statue to be made and then broke the mold. Bucky the Bronco, Triggers twin, stands above the scoreboard of the Denver Broncos stadium. After the closing of the Victorville museum in 2009, its contents were placed at public auction on July 14–15,2010, Triggers preserved taxidermy remains sold for $266,500 to television channel RFD-TV, which plans to start a Western museum. Bob Tinsley, a Victorville developer who had built Roy Rogers home in nearby Apple Valley, tinsleys plan is to make the statue a part of historic Apple Valley Village. He explained, I just couldnt see letting him go anywhere else
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Dale Evans
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Dale Evans was an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She was the wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers. Dale Evans was born Lucille Wood Smith on October 31,1912 in Uvalde, Texas and she had a tumultuous early life. Her name was changed to Frances Octavia Smith while she was still an infant, at age 14, she eloped with her first husband, Thomas F. Fox, with whom she had one son, Thomas F. Fox, Jr. when she was 15. A year later, abandoned by the father, she herself in Memphis, Tennessee. She landed a job with radio stations, singing and playing piano. Divorced in 1929, she took the name Dale Evans in the early 1930s to promote her singing career and she gained exposure on radio as the featured singer for a time on the Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy show. Throughout this early period, Evans went through two additional failed marriages, the first of which was to August Wayne Johns from 1929 to 1935, in 1937, she married her third husband, accompanist and arranger Robert Dale Butts, they divorced nine years later. Neither of these marriages produced any children, during her time at 20th Century Fox, the studio promoted her as the unmarried supporter of her teenage brother Tommy. This deception continued through her divorce from Butts in 1946 and her development as a cowgirl co-star to Roy Rogers at Republic Studios. Evans married Roy Rogers on New Years Eve 1947 at the Flying L Ranch in Davis, Oklahoma, art and Mary Jo Rush were best man and matron of honor. The marriage was Rogers third and Evans fourth but was successful, shortly after the wedding, Evans ended the deception regarding her son, Tommy. Roy had a child, Cheryl, and two biological children, Linda and Roy Jr. from his second marriage. Together they had one child, Robin Elizabeth, who died of complications of Down syndrome shortly before her second birthday and her life inspired Evans to write her bestseller Angel Unaware. Evans was very influential in changing public perceptions of children with developmental disabilities, after she wrote Angel Unaware, a group then known as the “Oklahoma County Council for Mentally Retarded Children” adopted its better-known name Dale Rogers Training Center in her honor. Evans went on to write a number of religious and inspirational books, Roy and Dale appeared many times with Billy Graham in Crusades all over the country, singing gospel songs and giving their testimony. Evans and Rogers would adopt four children, Mimi, Dodie, Sandy. In addition to her successful TV shows, more than 30 films and some 200 songs, Evans wrote the well-known song Happy Trails
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Republic Pictures
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Republic Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production-distribution corporation in operation from 1935 through 1959, based in Los Angeles, California. It had studio facilities in Studio City and a ranch in Encino. It was best known for specializing in Westerns, movie serials, Republic Pictures was also notable for developing the careers of John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers. It was also responsible for the financing and distributing of several John Ford-directed films during the 1940s and early 1950s and one Shakespeare film, Macbeth, created in 1935 by Herbert J. In the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s, Yates laboratory was servicing many studios, in 1935 Yates saw a chance to become a studio head himself. Six established Poverty Row companies were all in debt to Yates lab and he prevailed upon these studios to merge under his leadership. Yates new company, Republic Pictures Corporation, was established as an enterprise focused on low-budget product. The largest of Republics components was Monogram Pictures, run by producers Trem Carr and W. Ray Johnston, mascot also had just discovered Gene Autry and signed him to a contract as a singing cowboy star. Larry Darmours Majestic Pictures had developed a following, with big-name stars, Republic took its original Liberty Bell logo from M. H. Hoffmans Liberty Pictures. Chesterfield Pictures and Invincible Pictures, two companies under the same ownership, were skilled in producing low-budget melodramas and mysteries. In exchange for merging, the principals were promised independence in their productions under the Republic aegis, after he had learned the basics of film production and distribution from his partners, Yates began asserting more and more authority over their film departments, and dissension arose in the ranks. Republic also acquired Brunswick Records to record their singing cowboys Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, in its early years Republic was itself sometimes labelled a poverty row company, as its primary products were B movies and serials. Republic, however, showed more interest in, and provided larger budgets to, these films than many of the studios were doing. The heart of the company was its westerns, and its many western-film leads, among them John Wayne, Gene Autry, Rex Allen and Roy Rogers, became recognizable stars at Republic. However, by the mid-1940s, Yates was producing better-quality pictures, even mounting big-budget fare like The Quiet Man, Sands of Iwo Jima, Johnny Guitar and The Maverick Queen. Another distinguishing aspect of the studio was Yates avoidance of any subject matter. In 1947, Republic incorporated animation into its Gene Autry feature film Sioux City Sue and it turned out well enough for the studio to dabble in animated cartoons. Cartoons in 1946, Bob Clampett approached Republic and wound up directing a single cartoon, Its a Grand Old Nag, Republic management, however, had second thoughts owing to dwindling profits, and discontinued the series
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Trucolor
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Trucolor was a color motion picture process used and owned by Consolidated Film Industries division of Republic Pictures. It was introduced as a replacement for Consolidateds own Magnacolor process, Republic used Trucolor mostly for its westerns, through the 1940s and early 1950s. The premiere Trucolor release was Out California Way and the last film photographed in the process was Spoilers of the Forest. With the advent of Eastmancolor and Ansco color films, which gave better results at a price, Trucolor was abandoned. At the time of its introduction, Trucolor was a subtractive color process. Approximately three years later the capability of the process was expanded to include a release system which utilized DuPont film stock. The DuPont film was replaced by Eastman Kodak film stock. In its original version, Trucolor was a two-strip process based on the earlier work of William Van Doren Kelleys Prizma color process. Trucolor films were shot in bipack, with the two strips of film being sensitized to red and green, both negatives were processed on duplitized film, much like Trucolors rival process Cinecolor. Unlike Cinecolor, however, the film was not dyed with a toner but a color coupler, because of this chemical composition, Trucolor film fades over time, unlike Cinecolor. Multilayer Du Pont Color Release Positive Film was used as the printing material, Republic Pictures introduced live-action three-color Trucolor with the release of the Judy Canova musical comedy Honeychile in 1951. Kodak Eastmancolor negatives were used for principal photography, DuPont positive stock was used to make release prints. This stock had a structure that used synthetic polymer rather than gelatin as a color former. Though renowned for being used in Roy Rogers and other Westerns, the 61-minute live-action feature Bill and Coo was filmed in Trucolor and received a special Academy Award. John Ford filmed a Korean War documentary in the process, This Is Korea, Republic made an epic version of the battle of the Alamo, The Last Command where the Mexican uniforms were made in sky blue to look better on the screen. Republic also made a South Seas adventure Fair Wind to Java that climaxed with the explosion of Krakatoa, nicholas Ray made notable use of Trucolor for his offbeat 1954 western, Johnny Guitar, which starred Joan Crawford. Trucolor went on location to Europe as William Dieterle filmed the life of Richard Wagner in Magic Fire and Portugal featured in the potboiler Lisbon directed by, Republic made a John Ford Americana type film in the process Come Next Spring. However, John Ford refused to film The Quiet Man in Trucolor despite Republics head Herbert J. Yates insisting on the process, in addition to feature films, Republic commissioned Robert Clampett to make one cartoon, Its a Grand Old Nag
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Western (genre)
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Cowboys and gunslingers typically wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, cowboy boots and buckskins. Other characters include Native Americans, bandits, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, mounted cavalry, settlers, Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a. mythic vision of the plains, specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways and isolated military forts of the Wild West. Many Westerns use a plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution. The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre, from the early 20th century to the 1960s, Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Fords landmark Western adventure Stagecoach became one of the biggest hits in 1939, Westerns were very popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the most acclaimed Westerns were released during this time – including High Noon, Shane, The Searchers, the Western depicts a society organized around codes of honor and personal, direct or private justice–frontier justice–dispensed by gunfights. These honor codes are played out through depictions of feuds or individuals seeking personal revenge or retribution against someone who has wronged them. The popular perception of the Western is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, a showdown or duel at high noon featuring two or more gunfighters is a stereotypical scene in the popular conception of Westerns. In some ways, such protagonists may be considered the descendants of the knight errant which stood at the center of earlier extensive genres such as the Arthurian Romances. And like knights errant, the heroes of Westerns frequently rescue damsels in distress, similarly, the wandering protagonists of Westerns share many characteristics with the ronin in modern Japanese culture. The Western typically takes these elements and uses them to tell simple morality tales, Westerns often stress the harshness and isolation of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape. Apart from the wilderness, it is usually the saloon that emphasizes that this is the Wild West, it is the place to go for music, women, gambling, drinking, brawling and shooting. The American Film Institute defines western films as those set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle, the term Western, used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World Magazine. Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became an art form. Protagonists ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on their trusty steeds, Western films were enormously popular in the silent film era. With the advent of sound in 1927-28, the major Hollywood studios rapidly abandoned Westerns, leaving the genre to smaller studios and these smaller organizations churned out countless low-budget features and serials in the 1930s. Released through United Artists, Stagecoach made John Wayne a mainstream star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns
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Counterfeit
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To counterfeit means to imitate something. Counterfeit products are fakes or unauthorised replicas of the real product, counterfeit products are often produced with the intent to take advantage of the superior value of the imitated product. Counterfeit products tend to have company logos and brands, have a reputation for being lower quality. This has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, due to automobile and aviation accidents, poisoning, the counterfeiting of money is usually attacked aggressively by governments worldwide. Paper money is the most popular product counterfeited, counterfeit money is currency that is produced without the legal sanction of the state or government and in deliberate violation of that countrys laws. The United States Secret Service, mostly known for its guarding-of-officials task, was organized primarily to combat the counterfeiting of American money. Forgery is the process of making or adapting documents with the intention to deceive and it is a form of fraud, and is often a key technique in the execution of identity theft. Uttering and publishing is a term in United States law for the forgery of documents, such as a trucking companys time. Questioned document examination is a process for investigating many aspects of various documents. Security printing is a printing industry specialty, focused on creating legal documents which are difficult to forge, the spread of counterfeit goods has become global in recent years and the range of goods subject to infringement has increased significantly. Apparel and accessories accounted for over 50 percent of the goods seized by U. S Customs. A report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development indicates that up to US$200 Billion of international trade could have been in counterfeit and illegally copied goods in 2005. In November 2009, the OECD updated these estimates, concluding that the share of counterfeit and that represents an increase to US$250 billion worldwide. In a detailed breakdown of the counterfeit goods industry, the total loss faced by countries around the world is $600 billion, when calculating counterfeit products, current estimates place the global losses at $400 billion. Some see the rise in counterfeiting of goods as being related to globalisation and these new managers of production have little or no loyalty to the original corporation. They see that profits are being made by the brand for doing little and see the possibilities of removing the middle men. Certain consumer goods, especially expensive or desirable brands or those that are easy to reproduce cheaply, have become frequent. The counterfeiters either attempt to deceive the consumer into thinking they are purchasing a legitimate item, or convince the consumer that they could deceive others with the imitation
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Morongo Valley, California
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Morongo Valley is a census-designated place on State Route 62 in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 3,552 at the 2010 census, up from 1,929 at the 2000 census, Morongo Valley is located on State Route 62, about 10 miles west of Yucca Valley. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 25.2 square miles. Morongo Valley lies along the edge of the Mojave Desert and near the northern edge of the Coachella Valley. Monsoonal moisture leads to thunderstorms at times during the summer, but in the winter, the 2010 United States Census reported that Morongo Valley had a population of 3,552. The population density was 140.8 people per square mile, the racial makeup of Morongo Valley was 3,076 White,40 African American,73 Native American,31 Asian,4 Pacific Islander,187 from other races, and 141 from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 531 persons, the Census reported that 3,547 people lived in households,5 lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 were institutionalized. There were 132 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 26 same-sex married couples or partnerships,554 households were made up of individuals and 203 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21, there were 875 families, the average family size was 2.87. The median age was 47.2 years, for every 100 females there were 105.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 106.0 males, there were 2,004 housing units at an average density of 79.5 per square mile, of which 1,159 were owner-occupied, and 443 were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 4. 7%, the vacancy rate was 7. 9%. 2,489 people lived in owner-occupied housing units and 1,058 people lived in housing units. According to the 2010 United States Census, Morongo Valley had a household income of $32,337. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,929 people,811 households, the population density was 249.5 inhabitants per square mile. There were 960 housing units at a density of 124.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 91. 9% White,0. 8% African American,1. 4% Native American,0. 4% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,3. 4% from other races, and 2. 1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9. 3% of the population,33. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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House Peters Jr.
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Robert House Peters Jr. was an American character actor most noted for his roles in 1950s B movies and westerns. He is perhaps best remembered as the face and body of Mr. Clean in the Procter, Peters was born in New Rochelle, New York to actors House Peters, Sr. a major leading man in the silent era, and Mae King. In a career that spanned 1935–1967, he appeared in films, primarily as the heavy. He appeared in series including Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone. From the late 1950s into the 1960s, Peters Jr. played Mr. Clean in television commercials for the product, Peters was married to Lucy Peters from 1946 until his death, they had three children. He died of pneumonia at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital in Los Angeles, House Peters Jr. at the Internet Movie Database
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Movie ranch
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A movie ranch is a ranch that is at least partially dedicated for the creation and production of motion pictures and television productions. Originally, they were all within the 30-mile studio zone, often in the foothills of the San Fernando Valley, Movie ranches first came into use for location shooting in Southern California during the 1920s with the rising popularity of westerns. Other large-scale productions also needed large, undeveloped settings for outdoor scenes, the studios agreed to pay union workers extra if they worked out of town. The definition of out of town referred to a distance of greater than 30 miles from the studio. To solve this problem, many movie studios invested in large tracts of undeveloped land, in many cases existing ranches. The natural California landscape proved to be suitable for western locations, a few of these have survived as regional parks, and are still used for filming. Movie ranches have gradually moved to regions, notably New Mexico, Arizona. Below is a listing of some of the famous classic Southern California movie ranches from the first half of the 20th century. One movie that was filmed during this time was Gunfight at the O. K. Corral with Kirk Douglas, the movie is historically inaccurate, but it shows the area known today as Gold Canyon in all its beauty with the Superstitions towering over the Clanton ranch. During this time, Victor Panek contacted his neighbors in Apache Junction, Mr. hutchens, to suggest the idea of building a studio in the Superstition area. Construction on the Apacheland Studio western town began on February 12,1959 by Superstition Mountain Enterprises and associates. By June 1960, Apacheland Studio was open for business and filmed its first TV western Have Gun, Will Travel in November 1960 and its first full-length movie The Purple Hills. Actors such as Elvis Presley, Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, Ronald Reagan, have Gun, Will Travel, and The Ballad of Cable Hogue. The last full-length movie to be filmed was the 1994 HBO movie Blind Justice with Armand Assante, Elisabeth Shue, on May 26,1969, fire destroyed most of the ranch. The sets were rebuilt, but another fire destroyed most of Apacheland almost 35 years later on February 14,2004. On October 16,2004, Apacheland closed its doors to the public permanently, the causes of both fires remain a mystery. LINKS, Official Apacheland Movie Ranch website, Filmography, History, Big Sky Ranch is a movie ranch located in Simi Valley, California. It has been used for the filming of Western television
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Chatsworth, Los Angeles
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Chatsworth is a neighborhood in the northwestern San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. The area was home to Native Americans, some of whom left caves containing rock art, Chatsworth was explored and colonized by the Spanish beginning in the 18th Century. The land was part of a Mexican land grant in the 19th Century, Chatsworth has seven public and eight private schools. There are large open-space and smaller recreational parks as well as a public library, distinctive features are the former Chatsworth Reservoir, the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and a number of private businesses. Overall, Chatsworth has one of the lowest densities of any neighborhood in the city, and it has a relatively high income level. The 2000 U. S. census counted 35,073 residents in the 15. 24-square-mile Chatsworth neighborhood—or 2,301 people per square mile, in 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 37,102. In 2000 the median age for residents was 40, considered old for city and county neighborhoods, the neighborhood was considered moderately diverse ethnically within Los Angeles, with a relatively high percentage of whites and of Asian people. The breakdown was Whites,65. 7%, Latinos,13. 5%, Asians,14. 4%, Blacks,2. 2%, and others,4. 2%. Korea and the Philippines were the most common places of birth for the 25. 2% of the residents who were born abroad—a low figure for Los Angeles, the median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $84,456, considered high for the city. The percentages of families earned more than $40,000 was considered high for the county. Renters occupied 28. 9% of the stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 71. 1%. The average household size of 2.6 people was considered average for Los Angeles, in 2000 there were 2,933 military veterans, or 10. 8% of the population, a high percentage compared to the rest of the city. The percentages of married people were among the countys highest, the rate of 10% of families headed by single parents was low for the city. Chatsworth is flanked by, the Santa Susana Mountains on the north, porter Ranch and Northridge on the east. Winnetka, Canoga Park, and West Hills on the south, the Simi Hills, and unincorporated Los Angeles County and Ventura County on the west. Twin Lakes, a community founded by San Franciscos George Haight in the early 20th Century and this region experiences hot and dry summers, with average daily high temperatures of 90–100 °F. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Chatsworth has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, Chatsworth was inhabited by the Tongva-Fernandeño, Chumash-Venturaño, and Tataviam-Fernandeño Native American tribes. Native American civilizations had inhabited the Valley for an estimated 8,000 years, Stoney Point is the site of the Tongva Native American settlement of Ashaawanga or Momonga, that was also a trading place with the neighboring Tataviam and Chumash people
