Amelia Earhart’s Memory Kept Alive in the Valley

It seems appropriate that Amelia Earhart chose to reside in Toluca Lake. She played golf at the Lakeside Golf Club and researched aviation at the North Hollywood library that would one day become her namesake. And, of course, the flights. She flew out of Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale and what is today Burbank Airport.

Earhart and her husband, George Putnam, moved to Toluca Lake in the 1930s and lived in a Spanish colonial-style home on Valley Spring Lane. The home has basically remained unchanged except for minor modifications and retains the same hardwood floors and master bedroom as when the famous aviator roamed its halls.

It is said that Earhart planned her fateful July 2, 1937 flight in the courtyard.

Earhart set out in her twin-engine Lockheed Elektra to fly around the world. In one of the great unsolved mysteries of aviation, she and her navigator vanished without a trace over the central Pacific.

Two statues in the valley honor Earhart, a fiberglass likeness which is housed at the Bob Hope Airport and a bronze cast located in front of the