{"id":18080,"date":"2019-05-16T08:17:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=18080"},"modified":"2019-05-18T21:32:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T04:32:42","slug":"aerial-view-tarzana-ranch-the-estate-of-tarzan-author-edgar-rice-burroughs-san-fernando-valley-los-angeles-circa-1920s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2019\/05\/16\/aerial-view-tarzana-ranch-the-estate-of-tarzan-author-edgar-rice-burroughs-san-fernando-valley-los-angeles-circa-1920s\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerial view Tarzana Ranch, the estate of Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles circa 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18081\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2019\/05\/16\/aerial-view-tarzana-ranch-the-estate-of-tarzan-author-edgar-rice-burroughs-san-fernando-valley-los-angeles-circa-1920s\/dn00-tarzan-dc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aerial-view-Tarzana-Ranch-the-estate-of-Tarzan-author-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-San-Fernando-Valley-Los-Angeles-circa-1920s.jpg?fit=1832%2C1374&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1832,1374\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;David Crane&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;DN00-TARZAN-DC&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Aerial view Tarzana Ranch, the estate of Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles circa 1920s\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aerial-view-Tarzana-Ranch-the-estate-of-Tarzan-author-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-San-Fernando-Valley-Los-Angeles-circa-1920s.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aerial-view-Tarzana-Ranch-the-estate-of-Tarzan-author-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-San-Fernando-Valley-Los-Angeles-circa-1920s.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18081\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aerial-view-Tarzana-Ranch-the-estate-of-Tarzan-author-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-San-Fernando-Valley-Los-Angeles-circa-1920s.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Aerial view Tarzana Ranch, the estate of Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles circa 1920s\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aerial-view-Tarzana-Ranch-the-estate-of-Tarzan-author-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-San-Fernando-Valley-Los-Angeles-circa-1920s.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aerial-view-Tarzana-Ranch-the-estate-of-Tarzan-author-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-San-Fernando-Valley-Los-Angeles-circa-1920s.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aerial-view-Tarzana-Ranch-the-estate-of-Tarzan-author-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-San-Fernando-Valley-Los-Angeles-circa-1920s.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aerial-view-Tarzana-Ranch-the-estate-of-Tarzan-author-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-San-Fernando-Valley-Los-Angeles-circa-1920s.jpg?w=1832&amp;ssl=1 1832w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Aerial-view-Tarzana-Ranch-the-estate-of-Tarzan-author-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-San-Fernando-Valley-Los-Angeles-circa-1920s.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Apparently it paid very, very well to write stories about a guy raised in the African jungle. In March 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of the Tarzan books, bought 550 acres of land from L.A. Times owner Harrison Gray Otis for $125,000. His Tarzana Ranch had a 4500 sq. ft. hacienda, with 20 rooms, gardens, fields, fruit orchards, and Angora goats. The previous year, the first Tarzan move had come out (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0009682\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tarzan of the Apes<\/strong><\/a>\u201d starring Elmo Lincoln) so Burroughs, who was a savvy businessman, was flush with cash. A couple of years later he set aside 100 acres to create a community, which he called Tarzana, whose name survives to this day.<\/h3>\n<h3>The town of Tarzana straddles Ventura Blvd west of the 405 Freeway:<\/h3>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18082\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2019\/05\/16\/aerial-view-tarzana-ranch-the-estate-of-tarzan-author-edgar-rice-burroughs-san-fernando-valley-los-angeles-circa-1920s\/screen-shot-2019-05-16-at-8-03-36-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-16-at-8.03.36-AM.png?fit=1402%2C978&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1402,978\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2019-05-16 at 8.03.36 AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-16-at-8.03.36-AM.png?fit=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-16-at-8.03.36-AM.png?fit=640%2C446&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18082\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-16-at-8.03.36-AM.png?resize=640%2C446&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-16-at-8.03.36-AM.png?resize=1024%2C714&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-16-at-8.03.36-AM.png?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-16-at-8.03.36-AM.png?resize=768%2C536&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-16-at-8.03.36-AM.png?w=1402&amp;ssl=1 1402w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-16-at-8.03.36-AM.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the history of the Tarzana estate, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erbzine.com\/mag11\/1161.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently it paid very, very well to write stories about a guy raised in the African jungle. In March 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of the Tarzan books, bought 550 acres of land from L.A. Times owner Harrison Gray Otis &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2019\/05\/16\/aerial-view-tarzana-ranch-the-estate-of-tarzan-author-edgar-rice-burroughs-san-fernando-valley-los-angeles-circa-1920s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,49],"class_list":["post-18080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aerial-photographs","tag-san-fernando-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-4HC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18097,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080\/revisions\/18097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}