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at the Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth, which became the home of Charles Manson and his "family". The view fit the popular conception of the American West; boulders larger than most American houses strewn against a backdrop of mountains which completely ringed the valley. Oaks and sycamores, the native trees, along with imported Eucalyptus trees, and orange groves lent to the rural feeling.

Today, this suburb of Los Angeles, as well as in the rest of Southern California contains houses which are almost all single-story classic American ranch houses. The boundaries are not visible, marked only by signs on the streets, as a profusion of stores, apartments, and automobile traffic dominate.

Chatsworth is also known for its abundance of covert adult film production studios, discretely located in the many industrial parks off of De Soto and Canoga Avenues.

But, on the Santa Susana pass, through the along California Freeway 118, heading west from Simi Valley, you can still glimpse the town, in the orderly grid of streets, in the valley below. That valley is now home for millions of people, and only a few orange groves.

Frequent Phil Hendrie guest RC Collins (in his first incarnation) is a resident of Chatsworth and attends Chatsworth High, where he is a junior.