Duplexes Hollywood

Duplexes Hollywood

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Hollywood is a district in the city of Los Angeles, California, situated west northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a term for the of cinema of the USA. The nickname Tinseltown refers to the glittering, superficial nature of Hollywood and the movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as Burbank and the Los Angeles Westside but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post production and lighting companies, remain in Hollywood.

Hollywood neighborhoods & communities ;

Beachwood Canyon,
Cahuenga Pass,
Hollywood Downtown/Civic area,
Hollywood Hills,
Hollywood Heights,
Laurel Canyon,
Mount Olympus,
Nichols Canyon,
Outpost Estates,
Sunset Hills,
Whitley Heights,
East Hollywood,
Little Armenia,
Thai Town,
Virgil Village,
Melrose District,
Melrose Hill,
Sierra Vista,
Spaulding Square,
Yucca Corridor

Many historic Hollywood theaters are used as venues and concert stages to premiere major theatrical releases and host the Academy Awards. It is a popular destination for nightlife and tourism and home to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Filmmaking in the greater Los Angeles area preceded the establishment of filmmaking in Hollywood. The Biograph Company filmed the short film A Daring Hold-Up in Southern California in Los Angeles in 1906. The first studio in the Los Angeles area was established by the Selig Polyscope Company in Edendale, with construction beginning in August 1909.

In early 1910, director D. W. Griffith was sent by the Biograph Company to the west coast with his troupe, consisting of actors Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore and others. They started filming on a vacant lot in downtown Los Angeles. The company decided to explore new territories and traveled five miles north to the little village Hollywood, which was friendly and enjoyed the movie company filming there. Griffith then filmed the first movie ever shot in Hollywood called In Old California, a one-reel melodrama set in Mexican colonial-era California in the 1800s. The movie company stayed there for months and made several films before returning to New York.

The first studio in Hollywood was established by the New Jersey-based Centaur Co., which wanted to make westerns in California. They rented an unused roadhouse at 6121 Sunset Boulevard at the corner of Gower, and converted it into a movie studio in October 1911, calling it Nestor Studio after the name of the western branch of their company. The first feature film made specifically in a Hollywood studio, in 1914, was The Squaw Man, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel.

By 1915, the majority of American films were being produced in the Los Angeles area.

Four major film companies — Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO and Columbia — had studios in Hollywood, as did several minor companies and rental studios.

In 1853, one adobe hut stood on the site that became Hollywood. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished in the area with thriving crops. A locally popular etymology is that the name "Hollywood" traces to the ample stands of native Toyon or "California Holly", that cover the hillsides with clusters of bright red berries each winter. But this and accounts of the name coming from imported holly then growing in the area, are not confirmed. The name Hollywood was coined by H. J. Whitley, the Father of Hollywood. He and his wife, Gigi, came up with the name while on their honeymoon in 1886, according to Margaret Virginia Whitley's memoir. By 1900, the community then called Cahuenga had a post office, newspaper, hotel and two markets, along with a population of 500. Los Angeles, with a population of 100,000 people at the time, lay 10 miles east through the citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent and the trip took two hours. The old citrus fruit packing house would be converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood.

The first section of the famous Hollywood Hotel, the first major hotel in Hollywood, was opened in 1902, by H. J. Whitley, the President of the Los Pacific Bolevard and Development Company of which he was a major shareholder. He was eager to sell residential lots among the lemon ranches then lining the foothills. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue. Still a dusty, unpaved road, it was regularly graded and graveled.

Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. Among the town ordinances was one prohibiting the sale of liquor except by pharmacists and one outlawing the driving of cattle through the streets in herds of more than two hundred. In 1904, a new trolley car track running from Los Angeles to Hollywood up Prospect Avenue was opened. The system was called "the Hollywood Boulevard." It cut travel time to and from Los Angeles drastically.

By 1910, because of an ongoing struggle to secure an adequate water supply, the townsmen voted for Hollywood to be annexed into the City of Los Angeles, as the water system of the growing city had opened the Los Angeles Aqueduct and was piping water down from the Owens River in the Owens Valley. Another reason for the vote was that Hollywood could have access to drainage through Los Angeles´ sewer system. With annexation, the name of Prospect Avenue was changed to Hollywood Boulevard and all the street numbers in the new district changed. For example, 100 Prospect Avenue, at Vermont Avenue, became 6400 Hollywood Boulevard; and 100 Cahuenga Boulevard, at Hollywood Boulevard, changed to 1700 Cahuenga Boulevard.

Landmarks in the region include or have included ; Amoeba Music, Barnsdall Park, Bob Hope Square (Hollywood and Vine), Capitol Records, CBS Columbia Square, Charlie Chaplin Studios, Cinerama Dome, Crossroads of the World, El Capitan Theatre, Frederick's of Hollywood, Gibson Amphitheatre, Gower Gulch, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park, Hollywood & Western Building, Hollywood and Highland, Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood Heritage Museum, Hollywood High School, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood Sign, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hollywood Wax Museum, KCBS-TV, KCET, Knickerbocker Hotel, Kodak Theatre, KTLA-TV, Lasky-DeMille Barn, Musso & Frank Grill, Pantages Theatre, Paramount Studios, Pink's Hot Dogs, Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Odditorium, Rock 'n' Roll Ralphs, Rock Walk, Roosevelt Hotel, Runyon Canyon Park, Shrine Auditorium, Sunset Gower Studios, Sunset Strip, The Laugh Factory, The Magic Castle, The Prospect Studios (ABC Television Center), Universal Studios

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