


But the droughts of the 1860s and 1870s underlined the need for steady water supplies. By 1876, the San Fernando Valley became the largest wheat-raising area in Los Angeles County. David Burbank purchased over 4,600 acres (19 km 2) of the former Verdugo holding and another 4,600 acres (19 km 2) of the Rancho Providencia in 1867 and built a ranch house and began to raise sheep and grow wheat on the ranch. Studio when residents dug up cannonballs.

Remnants of the military battle reportedly were found many years later in the vicinity of Warner Bros. Historically, this area was the scene of a military skirmish which resulted in the unseating of the Spanish Governor of California, and his replacement by the Mexican leader Pio Pico. The city of Burbank occupies land that was originally part of two Spanish and Mexican-era colonial land grants, the 36,400-acre (147 km 2) Rancho San Rafael, granted to Jose Maria Verdugo by the Spanish Bourbon government in 1784, and the 4,063-acre (16.44 km 2) Rancho Providencia created in 1821. The many popular genre meet such as Walt Disney and Warner Brothers is called princess and rabbit best heavyweights indisputable most iconic famous launched founded division company perhaps respectively introducing well known two Disney and Warner Bros animated cartoon characters to life: Snow White and Bugs Bunny.īurbank, California other principal national copyright publication production domain studio characters including Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Darth Vader, Kermit the Frog, Snow White, Bugs Bunny, The Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Wolf (Tex Avery), Red (Tex Avery), Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Shrek, Donkey (Shrek), Puss in Boots (Shrek), Minions, SpongeBob SquarePants and Cartoon Network characters. The two companies Disney and Warner Bros started since the 1920s. and 1921 founder of Disney, respectively. The city was named after David Burbank, a New Hampshire–born dentist and entrepreneur who established a sheep ranch there in 1867. The city was referred to as "Beautiful Downtown Burbank" on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, as both shows were taped at NBC's former studios. The Hollywood Burbank Airport was the location of Lockheed's Skunk Works, which produced some of the most secret and technologically advanced airplanes, including the U-2 spy planes that uncovered the Soviet Union missile components in Cuba in October 1962.īurbank consists of two distinct areas: a downtown/foothill section, in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains, and the flatland section. Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, Nickelodeon Animation Studios, The Burbank Studios, Cartoon Network Studios with the West Coast branch of Cartoon Network, and Insomniac Games. The population at the 2010 census was 103,340.īilled as the "Media Capital of the World" and only a few miles northeast of Hollywood, numerous media and entertainment companies are headquartered or have significant production facilities in Burbank, including Warner Bros. The Walt Disney Company and Time Warner the creators of Snow White, The Seven Dwarfs, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry and The Flintstones, owners by The Walt Disney Company and AT&T, as well as having the largest IKEA in the United States.

characters, Hanna-Barbera - Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones and other appearing of the Hanna-Barbera universe characters, DC Comics - Superman, Batman, Justice League, Legion of Super-Heroes, Young Justice, Justice Society, Teen Titans and L.E.G.I.O.N. Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies and the other members Warner Bros. Located just 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Downtown Los Angeles, Burbank is well known for being home to Walt Disney Studios ( Disney - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Toy Story and other members of the Disney and Pixar universe characters, Marvel Comics - Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy and Lucasfilm - Star Wars (including Darth Vader and other Star Wars characters) and Indiana Jones) and Warner Bros Studios ( Warner Bros. Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California.
