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In 1977, Palmdale built its first municipal building, the Palmdale City Library. This was the same year that its northern neighbor Lancaster incorporated as a city. Since the 1920s, Lancaster had been the much larger and principal community of the Antelope Valley , as well as the rest of California's Mojave Desert .
The Valley Press was founded by A.J. Hicks on Saturday, April 3, 1915, as the Palmdale Post. At the time, the Valley was home to about 3,500 people. Over the decades of the 20th century, the newspaper changed hands, and there were a few name changes as well. On May 4, 1950, the paper became known as the South Antelope Valley Press .
www.av-mall.com. Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California, in the Antelope Valley . Opened in September 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (93,000 m 2 ). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0.5 by 0.5 miles (800 by 800 m).
The Los Angeles Public Library system ( LAPL) is a public library system in Los Angeles, California. The system holds more than six million volumes, [3] and with around 19 million residents in the Greater Los Angeles area, it serves the largest metropolitan population of any public library system in the United States. [4]
On September 12, 2014, one of the two Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (Tail number: N911NA) was put on display at the park as a part of a long-term loan from NASA to the city of Palmdale. According to the city of Palmdale, the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark could display a Boeing 767, a Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, a ...
Antelope Valley College ( AVC) is a public community college in Lancaster, California. It is part of the California Community College system. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles (5,040 km 2) covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties.
The average age of its residents is 28. Lancaster, its northern neighbor, does have some influx of seniors, but nothing huge. The chief reason for people coming to Palmdale to live is because of its housing affordability vis a vis eastern Ventura County, the San Fernando Valley, South Bay, and San Gabriel Valley.
The library system is the largest in Virginia in terms of population served (over one million people between Fairfax County and the City of Fairfax). [7] In the library's 2010 fiscal year (through June 2010), nearly 14 million items were borrowed from its collection of nearly three million books, CDs, DVDs, magazines, and other items.