Valley Relic Museum founder Tommy Gelinas says “The Valley was the hub of everything cool — the other side of the hill might argue, but we were the ones draining pools to skateboard.…
For Tommy Gelinas, the San Fernando Valley is more than just a place to live. It’s his culture.
He grew up riding skateboards on the sidewalks and BMX bikes on the many dirt tracks, eating meals at Pioneer Chicken, T As the years passed, Gelinas, 58, focused on his business and family. His 20,000-square-feet screen-printing factory, which he founded in the early days of Valley Relics, focused on printing images on t-shirts and tote bags. But he never lost his love or fascination for the Valley.
Photos, postcards, and ashtrays were the first items he collected, and soon he was saving large signs, arcade games — even cars — and just about any vintage Valley item from the garbage dump. In 2013 thebecame a nonprofit and opened in its first brick-and-mortar location in Chatsworth. The museum moved in 2018 to its current location in hangers at the Van Nuys Airport. Even with the expansion, the museum can only display 30% of its collection at a time.
Vintage arcade games at the Valley Relics Museum in Lake Balboa Tuesday, July 19, 2022. The museum houses historical items from the San Fernando Valley and beyond. Gelinas focuses on the San Fernando Valley but also saves relics from other areas in California. He has rescued the Mel’s Drive-In sign from the San Francisco restaurant where American Graffiti was filmed. Valley Relics also saved the sign from Premier mer Bowling also in San Francisco.
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