Glendale is ranked one of the safest cities in the U.S., which speaks to the generally close community Armenians (who are about 1/3 the population). Email. As of March 2018, four of the five members of Glendale's city council are of Armenian descent: MayorVartan Gharapetianand councilmembersZareh Sinanyan(mayor from 2014 to 2015),Ara Najarian(mayor from 2007 to 2008, 2010 to 2011, and 2015 to 2016), and Vrej Agajanian. Several large companies have offices in Glendale including the U.S. headquarters of International House of Pancakes. Those bonds have continued through today, through the various generations," said Ghazarian. [31], The 2010 United States Census[35] reported that Glendale had a population of 191,719. [29] Alice Petrossian, the GUSD director of intercultural education, stated that Burbank lies within the middle of other Armenian communities, so it attracted Armenians. !kcc MiNRV1 575) 6.7%: 3. All rights reserved. Former Armenian American mayors of Glendale includeLarry Zarian,Bob Yousefian, andRafi Manoukian. Glendale, California hosts the second largest Armenian population of any city in the USA (Los Angeles is first). 48.28% of Glendale residents were born in the United States, with 35.57% having been born in California. Suren Hazarian has been a deacon of the Armenian Apostolic Church also known as the Armenian Orthodox Church since childhood. 61.0%. Glendale began its historic preservation program in 1977 with the designation of 28 properties as city landmarks. Middle schools are Roosevelt Middle School, Toll Middle School, Rosemont Middle School, and Wilson Middle School. Not many Armenian communities go that far back," said Hadjinian. It is located about 10 miles (16km) north of downtown Los Angeles. One Armenian-owned business that perfectly illustrates the diversity of the community is a local favorite Zs Diner. [51], In 1977 and 1978, 10 murdered women were found in and around Glendale in what became known as the case of the Hillside Strangler. Glendale Transportation Center provides connections to Greyhound buses. "My grandfather Senekerim "Sam" Arakelian was a genocide survivor who eventually was taken to Germany by Nazis as forced labor. The downtown Glendale Galleria is anchored by Macy's, Target, J. C. Penney, and Bloomingdales, and the Americana at Brand, an outdoor mall which includes stores such as Tiffany & Co., H&M, Armani Exchange, True Religion, and Urban Outfitters. Glendale has one of the largest communities ofArmeniandescent in the United States. [90] Presently, Verdugo provides services to all 13 fire departments in the California OES "Area C" mutual aid plan, making them a regional dispatch center. Black Asian Mixed 1. In 1994, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen formed DreamWorks SKG, a diversified entertainment company. Frost sometimes occurs at night from late November to early March. 140. The City of Glendale committed to funding the museums new site and construction, as part of a plan to develop its downtown. [40] There are also a great number of Armenian immigrants from Iran who, due to the religious restrictions and lifestyle limitations of the Islamic government, immigrated to the US, many to Glendale since it was where their relatives resided. KABC-TV, an ABC owned-and-operated television station serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the rest of the Greater Los Angeles area, has maintained its studios and offices in Glendale since December 2000. These cities contract services from the center: Bob Hope Airport, Warner Brothers, Disney Studios, South Pasadena, San Marino, San Gabriel, Arcadia, Monrovia, Sierra Madre, Montebello, Alhambra, Vernon, and Monterey Park. This is how some 4,000 Armenians found themselves in Stuttgart, Germany when the war ended. Glendale is currently growing at a rate of 0.24% annually and its population has increased by 0.74% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 196,543 in 2020. A new headquarters of the Armenian National Committee/Western Region opened in 1994. Glendale has experienced steady growth throughout its history beginning in 1910, although the population did decline slightly between the censuses taken in 2000 and 2010. The GUSD high schools include Glendale High School, Herbert Hoover High School, Clark Magnet High School, Crescenta Valley High School located in La Crescenta and Allan F. Daily High School. approximately 40 percent of Glendale's population of over 200,000 residents claims Armenian ancestry. making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and the 22nd largest city in the state of California. [50], After the Iranian Revolution, many Persians migrated to the cities seeking a suburban city with lower crime and quality education. Former Armenian American mayors of Glendale include Larry Zarian, Bob Yousefian, and Rafi Manoukian. And given the choice, new immigrants preferred to move to an area where those things already existed, which makes perfect sense to me. Suren tells me that family and community are the reasons. The population density was 6,362.2 inhabitants per square mile (2,456.1/km2). Non citizens include legal permanent residents (green card holders), international students, temporary workers, humanitarian migrants, and illegal immigrants. At Arden Junction at Glenoaks Boulevard, the line branched. The warmest month is August and the coolest month is January. The main terminal building still stands and includes both Art Deco and Spanish-style architectural elements. "Those who came to Montebello were those who during World War ll escaped the Soviet Union, escaped many of them from Ukraine, from the various cities that are being bombed today.". The Verdugo FCC was established on August 1, 1979, between the cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena as a way to consolidate fire dispatching and telecommunications between the departments. LOS ANGELES - According to. The Mexican American community was established in Glendale by the 1960s. The register now has over 100 properties. 35.4k. Not long after Montebello was established in 1920, it became the first suburb most Armenians settled in back in the 1930s, which is just part of a piece of Southern California history. The systematic extermination of the Armenian population unfolded in force across Anatolia toward Syria between 19151918 . And then it was Armenians who transformed the trash business from just residential trash pickup to commercial trash pickup, which is such a huge industry in Southern California. He settled in Fresno in 1874. View ratings, addresses and opening hours of best restaurants. The Census questions regarding race and ethnicity changed from the 2000 Census to the 2010 Census. The closest portion of the San Andreas is actually 29 miles (47km) from Glendale. . White 1. * Vice President Kamala Harris co-sponsored the 2019 resolution when she was a U.S. senator for California, a hub for the Armenian diaspora in the United States. Among the more recognized faults are the Sierra Madre and Hollywood faults, situated in the city's northern and southwestern portions, respectively. A number of private schools also operate in Glendale, including Chamlian Armenian School,[87] Holy Family High School, Salem Lutheran School, and Glendale Adventist Academy. 196,021) 10.4%: 2. It was only later, as an adult, that I came to realize that this was unique to my town. While Armenians live throughout Southern California, the greatest concentration exists in Glendale, where Armenians make up a demographic majority (approximately 40 percent of the population) and have done much to reconfigure this homogenous, sleepy, sundown town of the 1950s into an ethnically diverse and economically booming urban center. In addition, 11 properties in Glendale are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Of the 72,269 households, 21,792 (30.2%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 37,486 (51.9%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 8,908 (12.3%) had a female householder with no husband present, 3,693 (5.1%) had a male householder with no wife present, 2,359 (3.3%) were unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 605 (0.8%) were same-sex married couples or partnerships. The Southern California crime ring called Armenian Power may look like a traditional street gangmembers identify themselves with tattoos and gang clothingbut the group is really an. 2. . Glendales population is forecast to reach 214,000 by the year 2040, so slow and steady growth should be expected in the future. Religion Armenia: Religious affiliation I learned about the Armenian Genocide, during which 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Turks between 1914 and 1923 for which Turkey has never taken responsibility or even acknowledged, along with the horrors of the Holocaust. [97], Using a grant from the Southern California Association of Governments, the City of Glendale is now in the midst of a feasibility study for a streetcar project. Ancestry refers to a person's ethnic origin or descent . Growing up here, I took for granted that so many of my peers had last names ending in -ian or -yan, hallmarks of Armenian nomenclature. SingerSerj Tankianand bassistShavo Odadjian, members of the Armenian American rock bandSystem of a Down, were based in Glendale at the time of formation. The facility was the first official terminal for the Los Angeles area, as well as the departure point for the first commercial west-to-east transcontinental flight flown by Charles Lindbergh. In 2005, construction began near the Galleria of developer Rick Caruso's "Americana at Brand", a 15.5-acre (63,000m2) outdoor shopping and residential community. [61] From 1985 to 1995, Walt Disney Animation Studios (then known as Walt Disney Feature Animation) was headquartered in the Grand Central Business Centre, meaning that most of the films of the Disney Renaissance era were actually developed in Glendale. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.5%; 76,769 people (40.0% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 113,521 people (59.2%) lived in rental housing units. The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation operates Crescenta Valley park in North Glendale, The Los Angeles County Department of Workforce Services, Aging and Community Services operates an undisclosed Adult Protective Services office in Glendale, In the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Glendale is in the Fifth District, represented by Kathryn Barger. [43], According to the United States 2000 Census, Glendale is home to 65,343 Armenian Americans[44] (making up 34.1% of the total population), increasing from 1990 when there were 31,402 ArmenianAmericans in the city. Glendale community news is covered by the Glendale News-Press, which was founded in 1905. The city is bordered to the northwest by the Sun Valley and Tujunga neighborhoods of Los Angeles; to the northeast by La Caada Flintridge and the unincorporated area of La Crescenta; to the west by Burbank and Griffith Park; to the east by Eagle Rock and Pasadena; to the south by the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles; and to the southeast by Glassell Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Why did so many make the journey from Armenia to here? Glendale: Armenian Church in Glendale. 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Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley and Verdugo Mountains regions of Los Angeles County, California, United States.At the 2020 U.S. Census the population was 196,543, up from 191,719 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth-largest city in Los Angeles County and the 24th-largest city in California.It is located about 10 miles (16 km) north of downtown Los Angeles. About 19.7% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race. [85], In the California State Legislature, Glendale is in the 25th Senate District, represented by Democrat Anthony Portantino, and in the 43rd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Luz Rivas.[86].