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Universal City, California

Universal City or Universal Studios Complex is an unincorporated area within the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Approximately 415 acres (0.65 square miles), within and immediately outside the area is the property of Universal Pictures (NBCUniversal's film studio), one of the five major film studios in the United States: about 70 percent of the studio's property is inside this unincorporated area, while the remaining 30 percent is within the Los Angeles city limits. Universal City is nearly surrounded by Los Angeles, with the area's northeastern corner touching the city of Burbank.

Universal City, California

United States

18

UTC-7 (PDT)

91608

06-81232

Located within the area of Universal City is the film studio complex Universal Studios Lot and the theme park Universal Studios Hollywood, as well as the Universal CityWalk shopping and entertainment center. Within the Los Angeles city limits lies 10 Universal City Plaza, a 36-floor office building for Universal and NBC; the Sheraton Universal; and the Universal Hilton. The Metro B Line underground station of the same name is located opposite the 10 Universal Plaza.


A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) station is located at Universal CityWalk, and the community also houses the only government-funded fire station in the United States located on private property. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD) Station 51 (formerly Station 60 until the mid 1990s) is of special significance to Universal, as "Station 51" was the fictional setting of the Universal and Jack Webb television series Emergency!.[1] However, the current Station 51 was not used for external shots, or used as a model for the interior shots seen on the show (LACFD Station 127 in Carson was used).


Universal City's ZIP code is 91608,[2] and the community is inside area code 818.[3]

"San Fernando Valley" By Marc Wanamaker (2011) Page 97, 103, and 106

Early Hollywood Research Database - New York Dramatic Mirror - December 4, 1912

Pacific Film Archive - Media History Digital Library -" The Moving PictureWorld" - Volume XVI April to June, 1913

The Moving Picture World - "UNIVERSAL CITY MOVES : Movie Making locations by Jerry L. Schneider

Early Universal City by Robert Birchard : Arcadia Publishing

Universal Weekly : "A Trip through the Home of Universal" July 5, 1913, August 16, 1913, July 5, 1913

Universal Weekly : "Universal City to be Moved to new Sites" March 28, 1914

Universal Weekly : "Universal's Chameleon City" and "Universal's Chameleon Studio Town"

Universal Weekly : " Movie Actress Control Its Politic" 1913

Universal Weekly : " Where Work Is Play and Play is Work" December 1913

The Rotarian - Feb 1914 - Page 59 " Tour of the Oak Crest Ranch - the first Universal City

Universal Weekly : "The New Universal City ," September, 1914

"The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle" By John Drinkwater [Chapter IX Universal City]

"Building Universal City" [October 3, 1914, The Moving Picture World] Movie Making locations by Jerry L. Schneider

"Oak Crest," two articles quoted [The Moving Picture World]Movie Making locations by Jerry L. Schneider

"Facts and Figures about Universal City" "Souvenir Edition", 1915 Universal City Tour

The Hollywood story By Joel Waldo Finler, Page 261 " The New Universal City .. in 1915"

Bison Archives Collection Oak Crest Ranch images - Mark Wannamaker - interview on the first Universal City 1912 to 1914

The Theatre of Science: a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry by Robert Grau (1914) pages 51 and 287 [Providencia Ranch - Universal City Moves]

Universal City 1912 to 1914

Oak Crest -Universal Ranch 1913