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390-acre Melody Ranch bears the Wild West motif inside and out. It's Mr. and Mrs. Gene Autry's.
From Jack Carson's land there's a good view
John Scott Trotter found
himself 22 acres of fruits.
nuts, and lots of lawn.
valley dwellers. Remember the old t.ong that went Oh, they keep the pig in the parlor, they keep the pig in the parlor? At the present writing there are no pigs in the parlors (no parlors, either, in grandma's sense of the word) but Gene Autry's horse does live in the Autry house, Dinah Shore hides a banty rooster in the living room, Penny Singleton gives shelter to a pair of rabbits in her private sitting room — all in the now -fabulous acreage known simply as "The Valley" to the initiated. Lionel Barrymore, who started the trek and became the first of the famous to dwell in the Valley, maintains testily that the most expensive and eccentric farming ever done was by two elderly ladies who kept a pair of cows on 34th Street, New York City, while the metropolis (and the taxes) mounted round them. These ladies, however, have long since gone to graze their cattle in a happier land, leaving the Valley dwellers in
sole possession of a privilege which may or may not be desirable — to farm as farming is known nowhere else on the face of the earth.
To begin with, the Valley comprises some two hundred and twelve square miles of rich, sun-drenched land to the north of Los Angeles. It nestles between the Coast Range on one side and the majestic, snowcapped Sierra Nevadas on the other. It is reached through Cahuenga Pass, or one of several other winding passes through the Coast Range — Cold Water Canyon, or Laurel Canyon. The would-be farmer can make up his own mind how far from Hollywood his acres are to be". The communities, which are really little more than shopping centers boasting a branch of the Los Angeles City Hall, string themselves along Route 99 on the road to San Francisco. Van Nuys, Tarzana, Sherman Oaks, Canoga Park, Chatsworth and the rest — but to
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