More valley craziness....NIKE MISSLE SILOS!!!! (Originally posted on MySpace on Feb, 10 2007)

Holy SHIT this one is classic. I"m just gonna rip the whole passage from the Valley Observed site I mentioned earlier.

Nike missile sites

From the mid-1950s into the '60s, Nike and Hercules missiles protected the Valley and its many defense plants from attack. Four sites could be easily observed. In the Santa Susana Mountains, a missile battery designated as LA88 could be seen in upper Browns Canyon from 1956 to 1965, and its command center was visible on Oat Mountain. A second battery -- with live missiles right amid the suburbs -- known as LA96 operated at 15990 Victory Boulevard in Van Nuys from 1957 to 1971. Its observation post was in the Santa Monica Mountains above Tarzana, along Mulholland Drive on San Vicente Mountain. Decommissioned buildings or remnants remain at each site.

I ride my bike right by the one on 15990 Victory everyday. Crazy how close Becca's paranoid parents live to former site of the the LA96 Missile Silo. Looks like their 1960s hippie paranoia may not be so "quaint" after all...they really ARE watching you man.