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The most important thing that makes up Burbank's story is it's people. Everyday people doing everyday things are the true representatives of our City's history.
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- 1970s - Bill Roberts, President of Continental Buildings Co.
- Bill Roberts was a contractor and the President of Continental Buildings Company which was a company that designed commercial and industrial buildings. A full profile can be found on him in an August 3, 1970 Daily Review article.
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- 1970s - Bill Roberts, President of Continental Buildings Co.
- Bill Roberts was a contractor and the President of Continental Buildings Company which was a company that designed commercial and industrial buildings. A full profile can be found on him in an August 3, 1970 Daily Review article.
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- 1970s - Children Playing on Golden Mall Play Structure
- Children Playing on Golden Mall Play Structure
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- 1970s - Elaine and Bill Paonessa with a group of unidentified people
- Elaine and Bill Paonessa with a group of unidentified people. No other information is known about this image. Donated by Elaine Paonessa.
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- 1970s - Pharmacist at Dana Drugs
- In file labeled “Dana Drugs.”
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- 1974 - Review of Submissions for a New City Seal
- Floran Frank, chair of the City Seal Committee, inspects submissions from the public for a new Burbank city seal. The call for a new seal first went out in 1973, when the city council created a committee to consider revisions “that reflect a more modern version of Burbank,” according to a May 13, 1973, story in the Los Angeles Times. The existing seal, which had been adopted in 1946, depicted the ascending silhouette of an airplane in the foreground, a factory with smokestacks in the background, and a film reel at the bottom encircled by the word “PROGRESS.” Mayor Byron E. Cook, quoted by the Times in 1974, described the existing seal as “environmentally uncouth,” and in January 1974 the City Seal Committee began soliciting public suggestions for a new design. A final decision was announced in November 1977, when the current seal, depicting an airplane, City Hall, a klieg light inside a frame of film, and the sun rising behind the Verdugo Mountains, was unveiled and approved by the city council. Prior to the 1946 design, there had been two other incarnations of the city seal: The first, from the city’s incorporation in 1911 until 1931, featured the image of a cantaloupe, a prominent crop in the area at the time; and the second, used from 1931 to 1946, showed an airplane flying over a street grid at the foot of the Verdugos with the sun rising behind the mountains. Notes on back of photo: “Aug-Sept 1974 City Seal Contest. ‘Inside the City Contest for New Seal.’ Floran Frank, Chair, City Seal Committee.”
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- 1975 - Skateboarder at Jordan Middle School
- Rhona Blaker took photos of her brother, David Blaker, skateboarding at Jordan Middle School for a high school photography class. (Oct. 1975)
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- 1975 - Skateboarder at Jordan Middle School
- Rhona Blaker took photos of her brother, David Blaker, skateboarding at Jordan Middle School for a high school photography class. (Oct. 1975)
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- 1975 - Skateboarder at Jordan Middle School
- Rhona Blaker took photos of her brother, David Blaker, skateboarding at Jordan Middle School for a high school photography class. (Oct. 1975)
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- 1976 - Burbank Foursquare Church Congregation
- The 1976 congregation standing in front of the Burbank Foursquare Church for it's 50th (Golden) Anniversary).
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- 1977 - Pastor Tom Danks
- Tom Danks, former pastor at the First Presbyetrian Church addresses the congregation.
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- 1980s - Burbank Mom and Kids
- An unidentified woman and three children exiting the AMC theater