On Saturday, Cowan was leading the San Fernando Valley Film Tour, one of a handful of Valley-centric tours held in connection with the Valley Relics Museum and the website myvalleypass.com.

By the time Valley Girl was released in June 1982, the San Fernando Valley had transformed from the pastoral landscape captured in Crosby’s song. Between 1945 and 1980, the population more than ...

The poor taste. “Boogie Nights,” which hit theaters 20 years ago this month, looked back on the late 1970s and early ’80s San Fernando Valley from when it was shot in the mid-1990s.

Curving down Interstate 405, tucked away behind the Hollywood hills far from the beaches, lights, and the LA cityscape, lies the San Fernando Valley — a city of its own with a culture that consists ...