Garage Conversion Hollywood, California

Geography

According to the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood is flanked by Hollywood Hills to the north, Los Feliz to the northeast, East Hollywood or Virgil Village to the east, Larchmont and Hancock Park to the south, Fairfax to the southwest, West Hollywood to the west, and Hollywood Hills West to the northwest.

Street limits of the Hollywood neighborhood are: north, Hollywood Boulevard from La Brea Avenue to the east boundary of Wattles Garden Park and Franklin Avenue in the company of Bonita and Western avenues; east, Western Avenue; south, Melrose Avenue, and west, La Brea Avenue or the West Hollywood city line.

In 1918, H. J. Whitley commissioned architect A. S. Barnes to design Whitley Heights as a Mediterranean-style village on the hills above Hollywood Boulevard. It became the first celebrity community.

Other areas within Hollywood are Franklin Village, Little Armenia, Spaulding Square, Thai Town, and Yucca Corridor.

History

Initial development

H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the 480-acre (1.9 km) E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed upon a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the extra town once General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, and Ivar Weid, a prominent businessman in the area.^{[citation needed]}

Daeida Wilcox, who donated land to put taking place to in the proceed of Hollywood, learned of the name Hollywood from an acquaintance who owned an land by that herald in Illinois.
Mrs. Wilcox is quoted as saying, “I chose the pronounce Hollywood handily because it sounds kind and because I’m superstitious and holly brings good luck.” She recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey H. Wilcox, who had purchased 120 acres on February 1, 1887. It was not until August 1887 that Wilcox approved to use that name and filed later than the Los Angeles County Recorder’s office upon a skill and parcel map of the property.

By 1900, the region had a reveal office, newspaper, hotel, and two markets. Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479, lay 10 miles (16 km) east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar parentage ran all along the center of Prospect Avenue from it, but foster was infrequent and the vacation took two hours. The archaic citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood.

The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by Whitley, president of the Los Pacific Boulevard and Development Company. Having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract estate buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue (later Hollywood Boulevard). Although it was yet a dusty, unpaved road, it was regularly graded and graveled. The hotel became internationally known and was the middle of the civic and social liveliness and house of movie stars for many years.

Whitley’s company developed and sold one of the in the future residential areas, the Ocean View Tract. Whitley did much to announce the area. He paid thousands of dollars to install electricity and arrange for electric lighting, and he built both a bank and a road into the Cahuenga Pass. The lighting ran for several blocks beside Prospect Avenue. Whitley’s house was centered on Highland Avenue. His 1918 development, Whitley Heights, was named for him.

Incorporation and merger

Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality upon November 14, 1903, by a vote of 88 for and 77 against. On January 30, 1904, the voters in Hollywood decided, 113 to 96, to banish the sale of liquor within the city, except for medicinal purposes. Neither hotels nor restaurants were allowed to advance wine or liquor before or after meals.

In 1910, the city voted for a merger behind Los Angeles in order to safe an tolerable water supply and to get access to the L.A. sewer system.

Motion Describe industry

By 1912, major motion-picture companies had come West to set in the works production close or in Los Angeles.

In the early 1900s, most motion Describe camera and equipment patents were held by Thomas Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company in New Jersey, which often sued filmmakers to stop their productions. To run off this, filmmakers began disturbing to Los Angeles, where attempts to enforce Edison’s patents were easier to evade. Also, the weather was ideal for filmmaking and there was Fast access to various settings. Los Angeles became the capital of the film industry in the United States. The mountains, plains and low house prices made Hollywood a good place to insist film studios.

Director D. W. Griffith was the first to make a motion picture in Hollywood. His 17-minute sharp film In Old California (1910) was filmed for the Biograph Company. Although Hollywood banned movie theaters—of which it had none—before annexation that year, Los Angeles had no such restriction.

The first studio in Hollywood opened in further on 1913, on Formosa Avenue all along the street from Helen Muir’s home.^: 447 Her daddy John Muir returned from his tour of Europe and East Africa a few months higher and continued work on Yosemite and his book, The Yosemite.^: 447 The Nestor Film Company was the first studio, established in October 1911 by the New Jersey-based Centaur Film Company in a roadhouse at 6121 Sunset Boulevard (the corner of Gower).^{[citation needed]} Four major film companies – Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO, and Columbia – had studios in Hollywood, as did several juvenile companies and rental studios. In the 1920s, Hollywood was the fifth-largest industry in the nation.^{[clarification needed]} By the 1930s, Hollywood studios became fully vertically integrated, as production, distribution and exhibition was controlled by these companies, enabling Hollywood to produce 600 films per year.

Hollywood became known as Tinseltown
and the “dream factory” because of the glittering image of the movie industry.

Further development

A large sign reading HOLLYWOODLAND was erected in the Hollywood Hills in 1923 to advertise genuine estate developers Woodruff’s and Shoults’ housing development. In 1949, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce entered a contract taking into consideration the City of Los Angeles to fix and rebuild the sign. The succession stipulated that LAND be removed to spell HOLLYWOOD so the sign would now dispatch to the district, rather than the housing development.

During the yet to be 1950s, the Hollywood Freeway was constructed through the northeast corner of Hollywood.

The Capitol Records Building upon Vine Street, just north of Hollywood Boulevard, was built in 1956. The Hollywood Walk of Fame was created in 1958 as a tribute to artists and other significant contributors to the entertainment industry. The attributed opening was upon February 8, 1960.

The Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

In June 1999, the Hollywood clarification of the Los Angeles County Metro Rail Red Line subway opened from Downtown Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, with stops along Hollywood Boulevard at Western Avenue (Hollywood/Western Metro station), Vine Street (Hollywood/Vine Metro station), and Highland Avenue (Hollywood/Highland Metro station).

The Dolby Theatre, which opened in 2001 as the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center mall, is the site of the annual Academy Awards programs. The mall is located where the historic Hollywood Hotel later stood.

Revitalization

After the neighborhood underwent years of serious decrease in the 1980s, with crime, drugs and increasing poverty accompanied by some residents, many landmarks were threatened in imitation of demolition. Columbia Square, at the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, is allowance of the ongoing rebirth of Hollywood. The Art Deco-style studio complex, completed in 1938, was with the Hollywood headquarters for CBS. It became house to a other generation of broadcasters bearing in mind cable television networks MTV, Comedy Central, BET and Spike TV consolidated their offices there in 2014 as allocation of a $420 million office, residential and retail complex.

Since 2000, Hollywood has been increasingly gentrified due to revitalization by private enterprise and public planners. Over 1,200 hotel rooms have been supplementary in Hollywood area between 2001 and 2016. Four thousand supplementary apartments and over thirty low to mid-rise evolve projects were recognized in 2019.

Secession movement

In 2002, some Hollywood voters began a disconcert for the area to secede from Los Angeles and become a remove municipality. In June of that year, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors placed secession referendums for both Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley upon the ballot. To pass, they required the approbation of a majority of voters in the proposed other municipality as with ease as a majority of voters in everything of Los Angeles. In the November election, both measures futile by broad margins in the citywide vote.