Knight, a native of Compton, has known ties to the Piru Bloods, a criminal street gang.

The name Piru ( originally pronounced " Pea-roo " by the Indians ) comes from the Tataviam word for the tule reeds growing along Piru Creek that were used in making baskets.

Location scenes were shot with the northwest side of Center Street, at Main, used as the exterior of Fritzi Haller's saloon and casino ; the Piru Mansion was used as the Haller home and the historic Piru bridge, crossing Piru Creek on the east side of town, was used as the locale of the car crash.

Piru was also used in the scene in A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) starring Judy Garland and James Mason where Jack Carson's character, Libby, finds them after they are married.

Most recently, Piru Mansion was used as the home of Ellis Wyatt in the movie version of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

Piru was also used to film the 2011 music video Don't Stop ( Colour On The Walls ) from the band Foster the People featuring actress Gabourey Sidibe.

In 1987, the City of Fillmore contracted with the Ventura County Sheriff's Department to provide protection for Fillmore, Bardsdale and Piru, an area with over.

Another story tells of a Piru restaurant known for good pies.

Piru stood in for Clarksburg, California, in the 1974 TV movie, The California Kid.

Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone filmed scenes for their movie, Rhinestone ( 1984 ), in Piru.

Scenes of Bubble Boy ( 2001 ), the chase scene in Enough ( 2002 ) starring Jennifer Lopez, scenes from Torque ( 2004 ) and the final scene for Van Helsing ( 2004 ) were shot in Piru.

( Some commentators state that only eleven deities were listed for Häme, not counting Agricola's mention of Piru, the Devil.

In 2002 he and his then fiance actress Michelle Rubin were both arrested for allegations of domestic violence after witnesses reported seeing the couple, on their way to a video shoot, fighting on the side of Highway 126 in Piru, California.

In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, Morrow and two children, My-Ca Dinh Le ( age 7 ), and Renee Shin-Yi Chen ( age 6 ), died in an accident while filming on location for the Twilight Zone: The Movie in Ventura County, California, between Santa Clarita and Piru.

He said, when later caught in Los Angeles, that he conceived of the idea while on location at Piru with the film company Universal.

In the Disney movie Race to Witch Mountain ( 2009 ) starring Dwayne Johnson, " The Rock ," scenes where he and the alien boy and girl go into a small town, Stoney Creek, where they have repairs done on his taxi and go to a restaurant / country music club, were actually shot in Piru, which continues to be a popular location with film companies.

With the exception of a few scenes, the film was shot entirely on location in Piru, California.

The 2005 movie The Amateurs starring Jeff Bridges was largely filmed in Piru — as was much of the television movie The Love War ( 1970 ) starring Jeff's father Lloyd Bridges, with Angie Dickinson ( with Piru serving as location and setting ).

Four of Watts's influential gangs — Watts Cirkle City Piru Bloods, Grape Street Watts Crips, Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, and PJ Watts Crips — formed a Peace Treaty agreement on April 26, 1992 following just over 4 years of peace talks which were initiated in July 1988 with the support of the local community and mosque, Masjid Al Rasul ( where talks had be conducted and the treaty was finalized ).

In 1929, the state decided to build a new bypass of the central portion through Piru Canyon, and to upgrade the northern portion over Tejon Pass and down the hill at Grapevine.

This event was attended by several VIPs from the world of football, including Alfredo Di Stéfano, Antonio Puchades, Estanislao Basora, Piru Gainza, Eduardo Manchon, and Cesar Lesmes.

The Santa Clarita Valley is bordered by the Lake Piru area including the community of Val Verde, Los Padres National Forest, and Castaic Lake to the northwest, Sierra Pelona Mountains and Angeles National Forest to the north and northeast, San Gabriel Mountains to the east and southeast, and Santa Susana Mountains to the south and southwest, and Ventura County and the Santa Clara River Valley to the west.

Many rivers in Southern and Central California have their points of origin within the Los Padres National Forest, including the Carmel, Salinas, Cuyama, Sisquoc, Santa Ynez, Sespe, Ventura, and Piru.

Modern place names with Chumash origins include Malibu, Lompoc, Ojai, Pismo Beach, Point Mugu, Piru, Lake Castaic, Saticoy, and Simi Valley.

Piru ( " Pie-roo ") is a small unincorporated census-designated town located in eastern Ventura County, California, in the Santa Clara River Valley near the Santa Clara River and Highway 126, about seven miles ( 11 km ) east of Fillmore and about west of Interstate 5.

Lake Piru, in the Los Padres National Forest, is the main recreational attraction.

The U. S. Post Office Department established the Piru Post Office on June 14, 1888.

The owner hung a sign proclaiming, " We Put The Pie In Piru.

In 1890, Cook built a lavish Queen Anne Style home a few blocks northwest of his original home, which came to be known as the Piru Mansion.

His home at Main and Center became the Piru Hotel.

During the production, Pickford, D. W. Griffith and others of the cast and crew, stayed at the Piru Hotel.

1836 ), who called himself " the last full-blooded Piru Indian ," died on June 30, 1921.

In 1961, a plaque to honor him was placed in Piru Canyon near the place where he lived most of his life.

On December 17, 1922, Jenks Harris, a would-be cowboy actor, and a gang of partners in crime, robbed the bank in Piru of $ 11, 000.

Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.

Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;

The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.

The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.