Picover | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | 16710 Sherman Way Van Nuys, California | ||||
| Coordinates | 34°12′3.5″N118°29′48.3″W / 34.200972°N 118.496750°W /34.200972; -118.496750 | ||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1917 | ||||
| Closed | 1938 | ||||
| Designated | 1989 | ||||
| Reference no. | 405 | ||||
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Picover was arailway station on the formerPacific ElectricOwensmouth Line. Now destroyed, it was designated aLos Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. The name is of unknown origin.
Originally constructed for the community of Marian (laterReseda) in 1914, the station was moved to Sherman Way between Balboa Boulevard and Hayvenhurst Avenue in 1917. Still in what was a rural farming community at the time, a new vegetable packing building was constructed adjacent to the main depot in 1932. When the Pacific Electric service in theSan Fernando Valley was truncated to Van Nuys in 1938, the station was moved to its last location adjacent to Bull Creek.[1] PE received authorization to abandon the station in January 1951.[2]
By the 1980s the building had been sold and was being used as anantique mall.[3] It was made aLos Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in January 1989.[4] The building was destroyed in a fire in June 1990.[5]
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