And in 1983, Burbank got a farmers' market! 😎 Burbank became the media capital of the world because every era of storytelling landed here at the right moment. Railroads connected the town in the 1800s, aviation turned it into an engineering center in the 1920s, and the shift from silent films to sound brought Warner Bros in 1928. Disney followed in 1940 and built a campus that set the standard for modern studios. Once television arrived in the 1950s, NBC added another wave of production, and by