Picover station

{{short description|Former railway station on the former Pacific Electric Owensmouth Line}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{use mdy dates|date=January 2021}} {{infobox station | name = Picover | style = Pacific Electric | image = | caption = | address= 16710 Sherman Way<br />Van Nuys, California | coordinates = {{coord|34|12|3.5|N|118|29|48.3|W|display=inline,title;}} | opened = 1917 | closed = 1938 | tracks = 1 | services =  | nrhp = {{designation list | embed = yes | designation1 = Los Angeles | designation1_date = 1989 | designation1_number = 405 }} }} '''Picover''' was a railway station on the former Pacific Electric Owensmouth Line. Now destroyed, it was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. The name is of unknown origin.

==History== Originally constructed for the community of Marian (later Reseda) in 1914, the station was moved to Sherman Way between Balboa Boulevard and Hayvenhurst Avenue in 1917. Still in what was a rural farming community at the time, a new vegetable packing building was constructed adjacent to the main depot in 1932. When the Pacific Electric service in the San Fernando Valley was truncated to Van Nuys in 1938, the station was moved to its last location adjacent to Bull Creek.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Simon |first1=Richard |title=Red Car Memorial : Amid Rail Controversies, Historic Trolley Station About to Be Declared a Landmark |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-12-26-me-604-story.html |access-date=31 January 2021 |agency=Los Angeles Times |date=26 December 1988}}</ref> PE received authorization to abandon the station in January 1951.<ref>{{cite news |title=W. Valley Free Bus Service Approved |newspaper=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94173902/w-valley-free-bus-service-approved/ |access-date=4 February 2022 |agency=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News |via=Newspapers.com |date=January 11, 1951 |page=7}} {{free access}}</ref>

By the 1980s the building had been sold and was being used as an antique mall.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Winn |first1=Martina |title=10 Antique Malls : Shopping Centers Concentrate on Heirlooms While Providing Some Old-Fashioned Fun |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-11-19-vw-22694-story.html |access-date=31 January 2021 |agency=Los Angeles Times |date=19 November 1987}}</ref> It was made a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in January 1989.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Simon |first1=Richard |title=Red Car Station Changed From Relic to Monument |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-12-me-80-story.html |access-date=31 January 2021 |agency=Los Angeles Times |date=12 January 1989}}</ref> The building was destroyed in a fire in June 1990.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Kazmin, Amy Louise |title=Fire Destroys Valley's Last Red Car Barn : Streetcars: The small Van Nuys building, which was built in 1914, housed a collection of trolley-era memorabilia. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-05-me-546-story.html |access-date=31 January 2021 |agency=Los Angeles Times |date=5 June 1990}}</ref>

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Category:Pacific Electric stations Category:Railway stations in Los Angeles County, California Category:Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1917 Category:1917 establishments in California Category:1938 disestablishments in California Category:Demolished railway stations in the United States Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1938 Category:Buildings and structures in the United States destroyed by arson