The Last of the Naranjas
Categories: Hollywood, Observations
Date: Saturday, 27 January 2007, at 7:54 pm
We are currently filming scenes for an upcoming Anthony Hopkins movie at a beautiful estate in Encino, Los Angeles. The interesting thing here, though, is the huge orange grove next-door (at which we’re parking our basecamp of trucks and trailers). The San Fernando Valley used to be covered in orange groves, but, with all the construction of new homes after World War II, they’ve almost entirely disappeared. This has to be one of the very last of them. Sadly, the tract has been recently purchased and the plan is to subdivide and develop it, of course. I’m curious if anybody knows anything more about the history of this site….
