Geography
Traveling the 25-mile (40 km) length of Victory Boulevard reveals the diversity of the San Fernando Valley, from the undeveloped open rolling hills of Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve and the multi-million dollar estates in the hills at the boulevard's western terminus, past the West Valley's major malls at Fallbrook Center and Westfield Topanga, alongside the headquarters of the company (Rocketdyne) that built the rocket engines that sent Americans into space and to the moon, through the Warner Center business district, past Pierce College, through the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Center with Lake Balboa, Pedlow Skate Park and golf courses, then through the largely Latin communities of Van Nuys, Valley Glen and North Hollywood in the center of the valley, crossing the Tujunga Wash, and continuing past Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery with its Portal of the Folded Wing, through Burbank's entertainment district, passing the Nickelodeon studios at Olive Avenue, then veering southeast to its eastern terminus at Griffith Park near the Los Angeles Zoo and Travel Town Museum (at the intersection of Riverside Drive & Sonora Avenue).
Victory Boulevard is one of three Los Angeles boulevards included in the lyrics of Randy Newman's song I Love LA: "...“Century Boulevard (We Love It!), Victory Boulevard (We Love It), Santa Monica Boulevard (We Love It)..."
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)