Hollywood as seen from the Hollywood Sign Hollywood as seen from the Hollywood Sign Map of the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles,as delineated by the Los Angeles Times Map of the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, Hollywood is positioned in Los Angeles Hollywood - Hollywood Hollywood (/ h liw d/ hol-ee-wuud, informally Tinseltown / t ns l ta n/) is an ethnically diverse , densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
Hollywood was a small improve in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was merged with the town/city of Los Angeles in 1910, and soon after that a prominent film trade emerged, eventually becoming the most recognizable film trade in the world. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood.
Before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurd's wife, easterly adjoining ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others.
Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now called Yucca Street.
Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon (now Lake Hollywood) and a prominent shareholder and friend of Whitley's. She recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey.
In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorder's office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold titled "Hollywood, California." On January 30, 1904, the voters in Hollywood decided, by a vote of 113 to 96, for the banishment of liquor in the city, except when it was being sold for medicinal purposes.
With annexation, the name of Prospect Avenue changed to Hollywood Boulevard and all the street numbers were also changed. Nestor Studio, Hollywood's first movie studio, 1912 His 17-minute short film In Old California (1910) was filmed for the Biograph Company. Although Hollywood banned movie theaters of which it had none before annexation that year, Los Angeles had no such restriction. The first film by a Hollywood studio, Nestor Motion Picture Company, was shot on October 26, 1911. The Whitley home was used as its set, and the unnamed movie was filmed in the middle of their groves at the corner of Whitley Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. The first studio in Hollywood, the Nestor Company, was established by the New Jersey based Centaur Company in a roadhouse at 6121 Sunset Boulevard (the corner of Gower), in October 1911. Four primary film companies Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO, and Columbia had studios in Hollywood, as did a several minor companies and rental studios.
Hollywood has since turn into a primary center for film study in the United States.
Hollywood Boulevard from the Dolby Theatre, before 2006 In 1923, the Hollywood sign was erected in the Hollywood Hills, reading "HOLLYWOODLAND," its purpose being to advertise a housing development.
In 1949, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce entered a contract with the City of Los Angeles to repair and rebuild the sign.
During the early 1950s, the Hollywood Freeway was constructed through the northeast corner of Hollywood.
The Capitol Records Building on Vine Street, just north of Hollywood Boulevard, was assembled in 1956, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame was created in 1958 as a tribute to artists and other momentous contributors to the entertainment industry.
The Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
In June 1999, the Hollywood extension of the Los Angeles County Metro Rail Red Line subway opened from Downtown Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, with stops along Hollywood Boulevard at Western Avenue (Hollywood/Western Metro station), Vine Street (Hollywood/Vine Metro station), and Highland Avenue (Hollywood/Highland Metro station).
The Dolby Theatre, which opened in 2001 as the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center mall, is the home of the Oscars.
After years of serious diminish in the 1980s, many Hollywood landmarks were threatened with demolition. Columbia Square, at the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, is part of the ongoing rebirth of Hollywood.
The Art Deco-style studio complex instead of in 1938, which was once the Hollywood command posts for CBS, became home to a new generation of broadcasters when cable tv networks MTV, Comedy Central, BET and Spike TV merged their offices here in 2014 as part of a $420-million office, residentiary and retail complex. Since 2000, Hollywood has been increasingly gentrified due to revitalization by private enterprise and enhance planners. In 2002, some Hollywood voters began a campaign for the region to secede from Los Angeles and turn into a separate municipality.
In June of that year, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors placed secession popular votes for both Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley on the ballot.
Project of the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood is bordered by Hollywood Hills to the north, Los Feliz to the northeast, East Hollywood to the east, Larchmont and Hancock Park to the south, Fairfax to the southwest, West Hollywood to the west and Hollywood Hills West to the northwest. Street limits of the Hollywood neighborhood are: north, Hollywood Boulevard from La Brea Avenue to the east boundary of Wattles Garden Park and Franklin Avenue between Bonita and Western avenues; east, Western Avenue; south, Melrose Avenue, and west, La Brea Avenue or the West Hollywood town/city line. Barnes to design Whitley Heights as a Mediterranean-style village on the hills above Hollywood Boulevard, and it became the first celebrity community. Hollywood Hills West Hollywood Hills Los Feliz West Hollywood East Hollywood The famous Hollywood Sign on Mount Lee is not actually in Hollywood but is instead to the north in the Hollywood Hills. census counted 77,818 inhabitants in the 3.51-square-mile (9.1 km2) Hollywood neighborhood an average of 22,193 citizens per square mile (8,569 per km2), the seventh-densest neighborhood in all of Los Angeles County.
Hollywood was said to be "highly diverse " when compared to the town/city at large.
In 2000, there were 2,828 military veterans, or 4.5%, a low rate for the town/city as a whole. These were the ten neighborhoods or metros/cities in Los Angeles County with the highest populace densities, as stated to the 2000 census, with the populace per square mile: East Hollywood, Los Angeles, 31,095 Hollywood, Los Angeles, 22,193 KNX was the last airways broadcast to broadcast from Hollywood before it left CBS Columbia Square for a studio in the Miracle Mile in 2005. On January 22, 1947, the first commercial tv station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, began operating in Hollywood.
In December of that year, The Public Prosecutor became the first network tv series to be filmed in Hollywood.Television stations KTLA and KCET, both on Sunset Boulevard, are the last broadcasters (television or radio) with Hollywood addresses, but KCET has since sold its studios on Sunset and plans to move to another location.
KTTV moved in 1996 from its former home at Metromedia Square on Sunset Boulevard to West Los Angeles, and KCOP left its home on La Brea Avenue to join KTTV on the Fox lot.
As a neighborhood inside the Los Angeles town/city limits, Hollywood does not have its own municipal government.
There was an official, appointed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, who served as an honorary "Mayor of Hollywood" for ceremonial purposes only.
The United States Postal Service operates the Hollywood Post Office, the Hollywood Pavilion Post Office, and the Sunset Post Office. Hollywood is encompassed inside the Hollywood United Neighborhood Council (HUNC) Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council and the Hollywood Studio District Neighborhood Council. Neighborhood Councils cast advisory votes on such issues as zoning, planning, and other improve issues.
Public schools are directed by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
Temple Israel of Hollywood Day School, private, 7300 Hollywood Boulevard Young Hollywood, private elementary, 1547 North Mc - Cadden Place Hollywood High School, LAUSD, 1521 North Highland Avenue Hollywood Community Adult School, LAUSD, 1521 North Highland Avenue Hollywood Schoolhouse, private elementary, 1233 North Mc - Cadden Place Hollywood Primary Center, LAUSD elementary, 1115 Tamarind Avenue The Will and Ariel Durant Branch and the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library are in Hollywood.
Since 2002, the Oscars have been held at their new home at the Dolby (formerly Kodak) Theater at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.
The parade goes down Hollywood Boulevard and is broadcast in the LA region on KTLA, and around the United States on Tribune-owned stations and the WGN superstation. List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Hollywood North Hollywood, California Flag of Los Angeles County, California.svg - Greater Los Angeles portal United States film.svg - Film in the United States portal "Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXXI, Number 45".
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