Whose valley is it, anyway? There ...

Whose valley is it, anyway? There is life in the San Fernando Valley--we’re sure of it. Still . . . it’s odd that David Roberti, a longtime Los Feliz resident, is running for a state Senate seat in that region.

And, reader David Hyman points out that there’s something strange about an anti-Roberti group, which is sending out flyers warning that Roberti “intends to foist himself upon our Valley.” The group lists its mailing address as Signal Hill.

From our Only in Hollywood bureau: During a taping of the TV show “Homefront” in South Pasadena, a pedestrian was struck by a car across the street. Actor Jonathan Terry, who is trained as a registered nurse, rushed over to deliver aid. Terry was portraying a Roman Catholic priest at the time.

“Jonathan started to perform a ‘neuro check’ by moving his finger from side to side and up and down, having the man follow his finger with his eyes,” said Neil Schubert, a spokesman for the show. “But the poor man thought Jonathan was a priest performing last rites.”

It was a happy ending, Schubert said: The pedestrian didn’t require hospitalization.

The ultimate in postal sleuthing: It happened four decades ago, and Peter Winter of La Crescenta has the incredible, multistamped, multiaddressed envelope to prove it.

A friend originally mailed the letter to Winter, an Air Force officer, during the Korean War. But Winter had been transferred. Thus began the letter’s odyssey. It was always one stop behind Winter.

“It showed up after I’d left Mississippi,” Winter said. “Then it followed me to Randolph Field in Texas, to North Carolina, to Tennessee and to Japan.”

After two years, it was returned to the sender, Capt. Leo Dustman. (It made a couple of more stops before finding him .)

“I looked him up in New York after the war,” Winter recalled. “He said, ‘You won’t believe this,’ and handed it over.”

The letter made almost a dozen stops--all on the same 3-cent stamp.

The Pit (cont.): Remember the old Studio City Car Wash that was torn down after it was denied landmark status? It was supposed to give way to a mini-mall, but that project eventually fell through, leaving nothing but an excavated lot. TV producer Steve Marshall drove by the other day and saw a facetious sign on a fence that said: “Burial Plots for Sale at This Site.”

The Lions’ favorite opponent: The Lions of the Latin American Bible Institute in La Puente won a national basketball title in their division the other day by defeating Atlanta Christian.

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There wasn’t much to see at one Santa Fe Railway stop in Southeast L.A. County in the 1880s. No wonder the railroad named the place La Mirada, which is Spanish for “the glance.”