Eagle Rockiana

The Rock

Eagle Rock is named for the prominent sandstone formation that stands above the Ventura Freeway, east of the campus. Near the top of the rock, an overhang casts the shadow of an eagle in flight.

The Weather

The average daily temperature is 72 degrees.

The Pizzeria

An Eagle Rock tradition since 1955, Casa Bianca may be the most critically acclaimed pizzeria in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times simply calls it “The Institution.”

A Little History

• Eagle Rock is located on the site of one of the earliest Spanish land-grant ranchos in California, granted to Jose Verdugo in 1784.
• In 1874, the Eagle Rock caves were reportedly used by Tiburcio Vasquez and his gang to hide their loot. Legend has it that some of the treasure is still buried there.
• Officers of the Chinese revolutionary army that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 trained in the hills of Eagle Rock under the direction of Homer Lea, Class of 1900.
• Briefly an independent city (the old city hall still stands on Colorado Boulevard), Eagle Rock was annexed to Los Angeles in 1923 to ensure an adequate water supply.
• Novelist John Steinbeck lived in a $15-a-month house in Eagle Rock while working on his second novel, To An Unknown God, in 1930 -- a rental he found with the help of his friend, Occidental English Professor Carlton Sheffield.