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Date Posted: 19:19:04 05/27/01 Sun
Author: Marlene
Author Host/IP: 216.126.136.86
Subject: Diane, I never heard that about the origin of the name Hollywood
In reply to: Diane 's message, "I think it's so interesting to be able to...." on 16:38:22 05/27/01 Sun

I'm a native Californian - I should know this stuff (but then I never wondered!) Here is what I found on the Britannica Encyclopedia site.........

** An adobe was the first
house built (1853) on the site near Los Angeles, which was then a small city in the new
state of California. Hollywood was laid out as a real-estate subdivision in 1887 by Horace
Wilcox, a prohibitionist from Kansas who envisioned a community based on his sober
religious principles. His wife, Daeida, named the area after the home of a friend in Chicago.**

Somehow his "sober religious prohibitionist principles" didn't last in what came to be Hollywood!

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