Hollywood History
Old Hollywood vs. New Hollywood
Hollywood came to be in the year of 1887 by Harvey Wilcox ,who was a prohibitionist from Kansas. It was originally laid out as a subdivision, and real-estate magnate H.J. Whitley transformed Hollywood into a wealthy and popular residential area.
Whitley at the turn of the 20th century was responsible for bringing telephone, electric, and gas lines into the new suburb.
The Hollywood sign originally called Hollywoodland,
Hollywood also known as Tinseltown, is a district within the city of Los Angeles. Hollywood name is synonymous with the American film industry. It lays northwest of downtown Los Angeles, and it is bound by Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive (east), Beverly Boulevard (south), the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains (north), and Beverly Hills (west). In 1910 Hollywood residents voted to consolidate with Los Angeles because of inadequate water supply.
Photograph by Security Pacific National Bank Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
In 1908 one of the first storytelling movies, The Count of Monte Cristo, was completed in Hollywood after its filming had begun in Chicago. In 1911 a site on Sunset Boulevard was turned into Hollywood’s first studio, and soon about 20 companies were producing films in the area. In 1913 Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse Lasky, Arthur Freed, and Samuel Goldwyn formed Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company (later Paramount Pictures)