Hollywood
on Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood (California), unincorporated district in the northwestern part of the city of Los Angeles, southwestern California, famed as a center of the motion picture industry in the United States. It is also a major center of the U.S. television industry.
Hollywood Christmas decorations
(new Kodak theater in the background)
shopping plaza next to the new Kodak theater
inside the Kodak theater
where the Academy Awards are held
(from their postcard)
The main thoroughfares,
Sunset and Hollywood boulevards and Vine St., contain well-known restaurants,
nightclubs, and broadcasting studios. The Hollywood Bowl, a natural amphitheater
in the Hollywood Hills, is the site of numerous cultural events. The community
was laid out in the late 1880s, after a real estate developer named Harvey
Wilcox registered his 120-acre citrus ranch as Hollywood on February 1st, 1887,
and started selling subdivisions of the property. Incorporated in 1903, it
merged with Los Angeles in 1910. The first movie studio was established here in
about 1911.
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El Capitan theater
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills -
between El Camino and Rodeo Drives on Wilshire Blvd
an "Invitation Only" shop on Rodeo Drive
on Rodeo Drive
Hollywood High School
Warner Brothers Studio in nearby Burbank
the famous Hollywood sign
(on a billboard at Universal Studios)
More Photos of Universal Studios
Fountain on Hollywood Boulevard
