Winnetka - City of Los Angeles
 DemographicsLand Area (Sq. Mi.): 4.3 Population: 50,594
Median Housing Value: $690,000 (average of west south valley as per Southland Regional Association of Realtors) Number of Households: 13,655 Related Websites |
Winnetka, just east of Canoga Park, is a rather small Southwest Valley community. There's a park that is used year-round for city softball leagues, but Winnetka also has a colorful history thanks to its founder, Charles Weeks.
Weeks came to the area to build his "Garden Community" after the first world war. His "Weeks Colony" was to be a collection of single-acre poultry farms owned by citizens of "high moral character and purpose." The promoter began selling tracts in 1922, and although it never became the utopian paradise he envisioned, Winnetka did become, and remains, a comfortable place to live.
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