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When most Americans think of Hollywood, California they think of glitz, glamor and cameras They think of movie sets and movie stars and premieres and beautiful cars and vast wealth and success. The very word “Hollywood” is often used to describe American cinema as a whole.
When most local Angelenos think of Hollywood, however, they think of tourists, rather dirty streets, unsavory characters and traffic on the 101 Freeway. Through the years, Hollywood has been through many stages. From its inception as a planned community named “Hollywoodland” to its heyday as the hub of worldwide cinema to its more recent, derogatory nickname “Hollyweird” to a recent crawl back to a safer, desirable neighborhood.
Native peoples had lived all over what is today Los Angeles County for thousands and thousands of years before the area was “settled,” initially by the Spanish missionary system, then by ranchers, many of them Mexican. The area that would become California turned over to the United States and the state was officially formed in 1850. At about that time, in present day Hollywood, there was, as far as we know, one house in all the surrounding acres; one little adobe hut where now lie the intersection of Sunset and Highland Boulevards, the famous Chinese Theater, the Hollywood Bowl, etc. By 1870 the area was developing, but as an agricultural region.
Some shrewd investors – namely one H.J. Whitley, who coined the name “Hollywood” – bought up land and re-directed its use as residential and commercial. Soon citizens were tricking into the new community, which became a municipality of Los Angeles. The first real film was shot in Hollywood in 1910. And the rest is history.
By 1915, the L.A. area was the number one producer of films in America (it had initially been New York). Paramount, RKO, Warner Brothers and Columbia all established their studios in Hollywood and, from the 1920s well into the 50s, Hollywood was the undisputed capital of film making in the world. A large number of music production and recording facilities set up shop in the area, too.
Today, while the name is still a metonym for American Cinema, most production takes place outside of Hollywood, having spread more widely across Los Angeles. Perhaps as a false corollary, at much the same time as film studios moved away, much of the glamor (and money) left Hollywood and it underwent many years of slow decline. The streets grew dirtier, crime rates rose and many residents left the area.
In very recent years, however, a marked renaissance has begun in the area. As often happens in blighted urban areas, artists led the charge, moving back into the area in numbers. The live music and “hipster” scene brought with it general gentrification, and today many fine restaurants and taverns have cropped up along the once dingy boulevards and cross streets of Hollywood. Tourists have always flocked to the area, but as there is more and more to do these days, more and more visitors make Hollywood a centerpiece of their Los Angeles tour. These tourist dollars, coupled with increased revenue from sales taxes and rising numbers of residents, should sustain the ascendance of this once famous, once fallen area. Today, it is home to over 125,000 people spread across nearly twenty five square miles, though that population number continues to rise.