Sherman Oaks Galleria
Sherman Oaks Galleria is a shopping mall located at the corner of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevard in Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, which is situated in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County.
The mall became famous in the early 1980s as being the epicenter of the Valley Girl culture and a well known teenage hangout. In 1994 the Galleria closed for eleven days due to the Northridge Earthquake, the economic impact of which the mall never fully recovered from. Towards the late 1990s many businesses began closing due to lack of consumer interest in the Galleria, until only a single store, a gift shop, was left remaining in 1999. The mall finally closed that year for a major renovation, and reopened in 2002 as an open air center that was nothing like what it was before.
Some scenes in the movies Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Chopping Mall were filmed at the Galleria, and it gets a mention in the song Valley Girl by Frank Zappa, which features a monologue by his daughter Moon Unit.