Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles,
California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S.
film industry and the people associated with it. Many of its studios
such as Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures were
founded there and Paramount still has its studios there.Hollywood was
incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the
city of Los Angeles in 1910, and soon thereafter a prominent film
industry emerged, eventually becoming the most recognizable in the
world.H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, had previously started
more than a hundred towns across the western United States. Whitley
arranged to buy the 480-acre (190 ha) E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on
a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the
new town with General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles
Times, and Ivar Weid, a prominent businessman in the area.
California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S.
film industry and the people associated with it. Many of its studios
such as Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures were
founded there and Paramount still has its studios there.Hollywood was
incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the
city of Los Angeles in 1910, and soon thereafter a prominent film
industry emerged, eventually becoming the most recognizable in the
world.H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, had previously started
more than a hundred towns across the western United States. Whitley
arranged to buy the 480-acre (190 ha) E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on
a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the
new town with General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles
Times, and Ivar Weid, a prominent businessman in the area.
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