Hollywood

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Hollywood

Film Stars Universal Studios

 

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.

Text from Microsoft Encarta
 

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

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