DID YOU KNOW ABOUT CHATSWORTH?
- Did you know Hoppy, Gene, Roy and hundreds of other cowboys made movies at the Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth between 1912 and the late 1950s?
- Did you know the opening scene of every Lone Ranger episode was filmed in Chatsworth. 800 acres of the original ranch now belongs to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
- Did you know that Roy Rogers once owned most of the property that now contains the Trails Community at Chatsworth and Owensmouth?
- Did you know that Errol Flynn once owned a hunting lodge in Chatsworth and built a dam that still remains just north of the 118 freeway near Browns Canyon Road?
- Did you know that Mr. Ed, the equine star of the 1960s sitcom, once lived in Chatsworth near Topanga and Devonshire?
- Did you know that Val Kilmer, Tombstone's Doc Holiday, went to Chatsworth High School?
- Did you know that Val Kilmer lived in Roy Rogers's old residence?
- Did you know that Kevin Spacey attended Chatsworth High?
- Did you know that Kevin Spacey named his production company (Trigger Street Production) after Trigger St. in the Roy Rogers Estates in Chatsworth? (The name "Trigger Street" is a reference to an actual street in Spacey's boyhood home of Chatsworth, where Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (and Roy's horse Trigger) had their ranch. Spacey and his childhood friends dreamed of opening a neighborhood theater where they could stage their own "Trigger Street" productions).
- Did you know that Disney's Zorro television series was filmed in Chatsworth during the late 1950s?
- Did you know that cowboy film star Montie Montana is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery?
Thanks to the Chatsworth Historical Society for some of the Did you Know tidbits
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