Garage Door Tune-Up in Van Nuys, CA

Founded in 1911, and the housing shows it: small pre-war homes around the old center near Van Nuys Boulevard, then block after block of postwar tract housing running west toward the Sepulveda Basin. The airport here is one of the county's long-running weather stations, and Valley-floor summers routinely beat anything on the coastal side of the hills, which is hard on opener boards and rubber weatherseal sitting in a closed uninsulated garage all afternoon. On the older properties the garage is often detached and the opening narrower than anything sold today.