Many Hollywood theaters with a long history are used as venues and concert stages for major film premieres and Oscar awards ceremonies. It is a popular destination for nightlife and tourism, and also the seat of the Avenue of Stars.
Although this is not typical of Los Angeles, Hollywood is a recent exception in establishing specific boundaries for regions or communities. On February 16, 2005, members of Parliament Goldberg and Korec proposed a bill requiring the state to keep specific records of Hollywood as if it were independent. To do this, the boundaries are clear. The bill was unanimously supported by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Los Angeles City Council. On August 28th, 2006, the Governor approved the Assembly Act No.588, and now Hollywood has a formal border. The boundary is shown on the right, which can be roughly described as the area east of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, south of Mulholland Road, Laurel Valley, Cavenga Road and barham Avenue, burbank and Glendale, north of melrose Avenue and west of expressway and Hyperion Avenue in Jinzhou. Please note that this includes all Griffith Park and Los Felize-these two areas are so far considered to be independent of most Angelina in Hollywood. As of the 2000 census, the population of this area (including Los Felize) was 208,237 [1].
As a part of the city of Los Angeles, Hollywood doesn't have its own city government, but it has an appointed official who only serves as the "honorary mayor" at the ceremony. At present, the "mayor" is Johnny Grant. As this is an unelected honorary position, Grant has held this position for decades.
1853, an adobe hut stood in what later became Hollywood. By 1870, an agricultural community is thriving in this area, and crops are thriving. In the1880s, Harvey Henderson willcocks of Kansas and his wife Daada moved to Los Angeles from Hicksville, Ohio, although he lost his legs due to typhoid fever. 1886, willcocks bought 160 mu (0.6 km? ) land, located in the hilly area in the west of the city and Kahongjia mountain pass.
A popular local etymology is that the name Hollywood can be traced back to a large number of local holly trees, or "California Holly", and clusters of bright red berries cover the hillside every winter. However, it has not been confirmed that the name comes from the imported English holly growing in this area. There are some different opinions about who was the first person to name this place Hollywood. There is a saying that the name was created by the father of Hollywood, H.J. whitley. It is reported that he and his wife Gigi came up with the name (from Margaret Virginia whitley? Memoirs of). [1] Another way of saying this is that Mrs. willcocks invented this name in 1883; On the train, she met a rich lady, who often talked about her country house. It was named "Hollywood" after a Dutch immigrant settlement from zwolle, and when she returned to L.A., she also named her country house in this way.
By 1900, this community named Cahuenga also had a post office, a newspaper, a hotel and two markets with a population of 500. Los Angeles, with a population of100,000 at that time, is located 7 miles (1/km) east of the citrus grove. A monorail line runs from Los Angeles along Prospect Avenue, but the service is very few, and the journey takes two hours. The old citrus fruit packaging house will be transformed into a stable to improve traffic for Hollywood residents.
The first part of the famous Hollywood hotel is the first major hotel in Hollywood, which was opened by H. J. Whitley in 1902. He is eager to sell the residential land in the lemon ranch. The building is located on the west side of Highland Avenue, facing Prospect Avenue. It is still a dusty unpaved road, which is regularly graded and paved with gravel.
Hollywood was merged into a municipality on 1903. In the town regulations, there is a prohibition to sell alcohol unless it is a pharmacist, and there is also a prohibition to drive more than 200 cows in the street. 1904, a new tram track from Los Angeles to Hollywood was opened. This system is called "Hollywood Boulevard", which greatly shortens the travel time to and from Los Angeles.
By 19 10, due to the continuous struggle to ensure adequate water supply, citizens voted in favor of merging Hollywood into the city of Los Angeles, because the water supply system of the growing city has opened the Los Angeles Aqueduct and delivered water from the Owens River in Owens Valley. Another reason for voting is that Hollywood can get a drainage system through Los Angeles? Sewer system.
With the merger, the name of Prospect Avenue was changed to Hollywood Avenue, and all the street numbers in the new district changed. For example, Prospect Avenue 100 on Vermont Avenue became Hollywood Avenue 6400; Cahuenga Avenue 100, on Hollywood Avenue, changed to Cahuenga Avenue 1700.