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Sherman Oaks Galleria

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In the early 1980s, Hollywood films and songs portrayed the female-dominated mall lifestyle in the San Fernando Valley. The Sherman Oaks Galleria was popularlized as the home of the Valley Girl by 1981's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, with characters played by Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Leigh working at fast food stands in its food court.

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