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Tarzan Inc.

By Kevin Roderick | August 19, 2012 12:25 PM

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burroughs-yard-gate.jpgEdgar Rice Burroughs' home in Tarzana is gone, but the offices where his family business — and everything Tarzan — is administered remains behind a low wall on Ventura Boulevard. Burroughs' ashes reportedly were buried under the walnut tree in the yard after he died in 1950.


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