ROADS SCHOLARS: They fumbled through the Thomas...
ROADS SCHOLARS: They fumbled through the Thomas Guide, but the Beverly Hills teen-agers in the movie “Clueless” still couldn’t find Sun Valley. They were looking for a big “Val party.” For the record, Sun Valley appears on pages 502-503 and 532-533. . . . But don’t look for the home where the party was held. The exterior shot is of a home in Granada Hills, said a Paramount Studios spokesman.
FUNDING SQUEEZE: For the first time in more than 10 years, no federal funds are proposed to pay for expansion of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, raising the prospect that the park’s size has peaked (B1). . . . Park officials had wanted new money to buy land along the Backbone Trail and in Zuma and Trancas canyons.
MOSCOW MOVE: One of the world’s leading players in high-tech music production is Gauss / Electro Sound of Sun Valley, which manufactures equipment for mass-producing music cassettes. . . . The firm is expanding to Russia, where new music companies are plentiful--but so is piracy. “It’s just running rampant,” says company President Jim Williams, above. See Valley Business, Page 4.
MAIN STREET MAKE-OVER: A block of shuttered businesses along Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks will be renovated by its owner, renewing hopes for the revival of the Valley’s main drag (B1). The strip of shops by Woodman Avenue includes the once-popular Scene of the Crime bookstore. . . . Owner Mel Guthman said he will refurbish 16 storefronts and add a 17th.
DOWN IN THE MOUTH: Sales figures doubled for New Image Industries of Canoga Park after it began peddling cutting-edge dental cameras in 1992. The “intra-oral cameras” project pictures from inside a person’s mouth onto a video screen. . . . But New Image has fallen on tough times. Prices have dropped, and some dentists don’t intend to give up those trusty bent mirrors. See Valley Business, Page 7.
