More about Pacoima California

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Pacoima is located in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County and as of 2009 Los Angeles Time statistics, is home to an estimated 75,014 residents. The city's name comes from its original inhabitants, the Tataviam Native Americans; Pacoima means 'the entrance' in the Tataviam native language. The area was permanently settled in 1887 when former Republican California State Assemblyman and California State Senator Charles MacLay purchased 56,000 acres of land in the area. MacLay subdivided the area in agricultural parcels, and many were used to grow citrus, beans, wheat, nuts and vegetables. The district finally annexed itself in 1921. By the end of World War II, the need for housing for those working at Lockheed's main plant in neighboring Burbank, spilled over into Pacoima. The area rapidly changed from a dusty agricultural community to residential one for the growing industries in Los Angeles and Burbank, with transportation provided by the Golden State Freeway. Since the 1970s, Pacoima has had a spot as one of the poorest communities in Los Angeles. The city had also experienced its fair share of crime until 2001 when new Los Angeles County Police Chief William J. Bratton and the Department took an interest in reducing the crime rate in Pacoima. Since the new Chief's arrival, Pacoima has seen the largest drop in crime during the period of any LAPD's patrol areas. The city has seen some notoriety in its day; in January 1957, three junior high students were killed along with five others when a four-engine Douglas DC-7B airliner and a United States Air Force Northrop F-89J Scorpion jet fighter collided in midair. The collision occurred at approximately 11:18 a.m.; the DC-7B had taken off from Santa Monica Airport at 10:15 a.m. on its first functional test flight, meanwhile at 10:50 a.m. the F-89J took off in Palmdale. Both plane were performing their individual tests, checking on-board radar and other functions of the aircraft when the collision occurred. The F-89J crashed in La Tuna Canyon in the Verdugo Mountains, the pilot was killed, but two others parachuted out, while the DC-7B broke into pieces of wreckage, slamming into the ground of the Pacoima Congregational Church and the adjacent playground, killing all the crew members and the three students. The accident, however, is not the only notable thing to come out of the city, the well-know high fashion line Juicy Couture was created in Pacoima and can now be found in high-end retailers nation-wide.