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 Hollywood, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., situated west-northwest of Downtown.
Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903.
Thus, the fame of Hollywood came from its identity with the movies and movie stars; and the word "Hollywood," a word that, when spoken in any country on Earth, evokes worlds, even galaxies of memories, came to be colloquially used to refer to the motion picture industry.
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 Hollywood, California - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The first section of the famous Hollywood Hotel, the first major hotel in Hollywood, was opened in 1902 by a subdivider eager to sell residential lots among the lemon ranches then lining the foothills.
In 1910, because of an ongoing struggle to secure an adequate water supply, the townsmen voted for Hollywood to be annexed to 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.
In 1985, the Hollywood Boulevard commercial and entertainment district was officially listed in the National Register of Historic Places protecting important buildings and seeing to it that the significance of Hollywood's past would always be a part of its future.
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 Hollywood, California
Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A Hollywood was founded in 1857.
The first section of the famous Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by a subdivider eager to sell residential lots among the lemon ranches then lining the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Hollywood and the movie industry of the 1930s are described in P.G. Wodehouse's novel Laughing Gas (1936) and in Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run (1941), and is parodied in Terry Pratchett's novel Moving Pictures (1990), which is a takeoff of ''Singin' In The Rain.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Hollywood is a district in the central region of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., situated northwest of Downtown.
Due to its fame and identity as the historical center of movie studios and stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym for the American film and television industry.
The first section of the famous Hollywood Hotel, the first major hotel in Hollywood, was opened in 1902 by H. Whitley, a subdivider, eager to sell residential lots among the lemon ranches then lining the foothills.
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 ipedia.com: Hollywood, California Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In 1886, Wilcox bought 160 acres of land in the countryside to the west of the city at the foothills and the Cahuenga Pass.
The years 1930 to 1948 are considered the age of the "Hollywood studio system." In 1948, the studio system ended after the Supreme Court ruled that movie studios could not own theaters and play only the movies of their studio and movie stars.
In June 1999, the long awaited Hollywood extension of the Metro Red Line subway opened, running from Downtown to the Valley, with stops on Hollywood Boulevard at Western Avenue, at Vine Street and at Highland Avenue.
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Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., situated northwest of Downtown.
A locally popular (though inaccurate) etymology is that the name Hollywood traces to the ample stands of native Toyon, or "California Holly," that cover the hillsides.
This grim side of Hollywood was portayed in Jackson Brown's song, Boulevard, whose lyrics include reference to a notorious hustler hangout of the 1970s, "Down at the Golden Cup/They set the young ones up/Under the neon lights/Selling day for night", and in the books of Charles Bukowski.
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 Hollywood @ Karr.net (Karr Network)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
See also Classical Hollywood cinema and New Hollywood.
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 Film (disambiguation) @ HollywoodBlockbuster.com (Hollywood Blockbuster)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Propaganda (disambiguation).
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