Editing Northridge, Los Angeles (section)

==Entertainment==
===Motion pictures and television===

Silent star [[Janet Gaynor]] and her costume-designer husband Adrian were the first owners of a spacious estate in Northridge, which was later sold to [[Barbara Stanwyck]] and [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]].  Later, actor [[Jack Oakie]] owned the property and lived on it. The Oakie house was set for the wrecking ball, but in 2010 the city agreed to buy the Tudor-style stone landmark and its {{convert|10|acre|m2|adj=on}} ranch estate.<ref name="dailynews.com">{{cite news |url=http://www.dailynews.com/ci_14304048 |title=Oakie House saved from destruction |publisher=LA Daily News |date=January 31, 2010 |access-date=January 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130227045441/http://www.dailynews.com/ci_14304048 |archive-date=February 27, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Marion Marx, wife of [[Zeppo Marx]], and Barbara Stanwyck started Marwyck Ranch as a horse breeding farm. The original house and a small portion of the ranch still exist, and is managed by the city as Oakridge Estate Park. Northridge was known as the "Horse Capital of the West," with regular Sunday horse shows, annual stampedes, and country fairs.<ref name="dailynews.com"/>

===Devonshire Downs===
In the late 1960s, [[Devonshire Downs]] was the site of two major [[rock festival|rock music festivals]]. The little-known two-day 1967 ''Fantasy Faire and Magic Music Festival'' (at "Devonshire Meadows") featured [[The Doors]], [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Country Joe and the Fish]], [[The Grass Roots]], [[Canned Heat]], [[Iron Butterfly]] and several other bands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idafan.com/PriorNews-Reviews.htm |title=Prior News |publisher=Idafan.com |access-date=January 13, 2013}}</ref> The better-known but confusingly named 1969 ''[[Newport Pop Festival#The "Newport 69" Festival|Newport Pop Festival]]'' was a massive three-day event that featured [[Jimi Hendrix]] and many other top acts. It took place in June and was briefly the largest music festival ever held before losing that distinction to [[Woodstock]] the following August. Like its famous successor, it had problems with large numbers of gate-crashers, and some young attendees far from home camped out nearby in sleeping bags. Unlike Woodstock, "nearby" included parts of suburban Northridge, where most of the local residents were horrified to find their neighborhoods invaded by "hippies". A ban on rock music festivals soon followed.<ref>Beardsley, Jim A. [http://www.laobserved.com/visiting/2009/06/newport_69_a_retrospect.php "Newport '69, a retrospect"]. ''LA Observed'', June 17, 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2013.</ref>