2. Hollywood
• 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
metonymy of American cinema, and is often interchangably used to
refer to the greater Los Angeles area in general. The nickname
Tinseltown refers to Hollywood and the movie industry.
3. • 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, tourism, and
is home to the
Hollywood Walk of
Fame.
4. History
• By 1900, the region had a post office,
newspaper, hotel and two markets, along with a
population of 500. 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.
5. • Hollywood was finally incorporated as a municipality
in 1903. Another that demonstrates the vast
difference between today's and early Hollywood was
a law outlawing the driving of cattle through the
streets in herds of more than two hundred.
6. • 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.The name of Prospect
Avenue was changed to Hollywood Boulevard
and all the street numbers in the new district
changed.
7. Modern Hollywood
• On1947 the first commercial television station
west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, began
operating in Hollywood. In December of that
year, The Public Prosecutor became the first
network television series to be filmed in
Hollywood. In the 1950s, music recording
studios and offices began moving into
Hollywood.
• Much of the movie industry remained in
Hollywood, although the district's outward
appearance changed.
8. • The Kodak Theatre opened in
2001 on Hollywood Boulevard at
Highland Avenue, where the
historic Hollywood Hotel once
stood, has become the new home
of the Oscars.
• In 2002, a number of Hollywood
citizens began a campaign for the
district to secede from Los
Angeles and become, as it had
been a century earlier, its own
incorporated municipality.
Secession supporters argued that
the needs of their community were
being ignored by the leaders of
Los Angeles. To pass, they
required the approval of a majority
of voters in the proposed new
municipality as well as a majority
of voters in all of Los Angeles.
9. Hollywood walk of fame
• The Hollywood Walk of Fame
is a sidewalk along Hollywood
Boulevard and Vine Street in
Hollywood, Los
Angeles, California, USA, that
serves as an entertainment
museum.
• The Hollywood Walk of Fame
was created in 1958 as a
tribute to artists working in the
entertainment industry and the
first embedded star on the
walk honoring actress Joanne
Woodward.
10. • The Walk of Fame runs west on Hollywood Boulevard from Gower Avenue
to La Brea Avenue and south to north on Vine Street between Yucca Street
and Sunset Boulevard. The Walk of Fame is nearly a three-and-a-half-(3
1/2)-mile (5.6 km) round-trip walk. Locations of specific stars are
permanent, except when occasionally relocated for nearby construction or
other reasons.
14. Each star consists of a pink terrazzo five-pointed star rimmed with bronze
and inlaid into a charcoal square. Inside the pink star is the name of the
honoree inlaid in bronze, below which is a round bronze emblem indicating
the category for which the honoree received the star. The emblems are:
• Motion picture camera for contribution to the film industry
• Television set for contribution to the broadcast television industry
• Phonograph record for contribution to the recording industry
• Radio microphone for contribution to the broadcast radio industry
• Twin comedy/tragedy masks for contribution to live theater
