Van Nuys Hats
Description: Unlike most van shops of the day that focused on selling and installing custom parts and accessories, The Van Doctor was a comprehensive auto body and mechanical repair shop. Sure, they also sold the goodies to make your ride stand out, but that was secondary to this Van Nuys garage.
Description: In 1954, a new brewery was opened in Van Nuys. The company opened one of the modern Busch Gardens parks at this site in 1966 that included boat rides, a monorail designed into a brewery tour, and free beer. The park expanded to 5 acres in 1972 with a log flume ride and a sky trolley. The 17-acre amusement park was renamed Busch Bird Sanctuary in 1977 and closed in 1979. The birds were moved to the nearby Los Angeles Zoo and the Busch Gardens Tampa Bay and Williamsburg locations. The site of the Van Nuys theme park is currently a Bud Light facility and one of the remnants of the park is the footbridge connecting to the 1972 expansion.
Van Nuys Drive In Theater Marquee Sign Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Tarantino Hat
by TheDisneyElite1955
$19
Description: A 19-year-old named Nick bought this cherry red 1975 G-10 from its original owner right off Van Nuys Boulevard in 1977. It was already mildly customized with gold pinstripe work and a set of mags, but Nick wanted to make it his own. Since naming vans was what people did back then, he dubbed it Wild Cherry, and added a set of flares, but didn't have the dough to get them painted. Somewhat ironically, the bright white flares are what really made Wild Cherry pop, and caught the attention of the film crew from the 1979 B-movie, Van Nuys Blvd. They asked if he wanted his van to make an appearance in the movie, and of course, he said yes, so Wild Cherry can be seen in all its glory for about 3 seconds in the movie and in the trailer.
Description: Taco Tio is one of the long-forgotten fast-food chains that has been lost to the winds of time. Sadly, very little information exists on these guys, but from what we were able to pull together, they opened up shop on March 4th, 1967 on Van Nuys Blvd. in Burbank with ten-cent tacos all day long and went on to open several more throughout Southern California. Given their proximity to the TV and movie studios, their unique cactus signs can be spotted in numerous driving scenes in TV shows and movies throughout the '60s and '70s.
