Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California

Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California
Annexed by Los Angeles in 1910.

HOLLYWOOD, a suburban section of Los Angeles recently incorporated with the larger municipality, is situated northwest
of the business center (reached by Hollywood cars).
The location of Hollywood in the foothills of Santa Monica Mountains, with the Cahuenga Valley below, affords an excellent
view over the city. The residences of Hollywood are among the finest in Los Angeles and these alone make a visit
to the community pleasant and interesting. Hollywood was founded as a separate town in 1888, but most of the growth
has come within the last eight years. The population of the district is about 10,000.
There are a number of attractive public Buildings. The Public Library is situated at the corner of Hollywood avenue
and Ivar street; there are over 10,000 volumes. A short distance to the west of the library is the Moorish villa of the
iate Paul de Longpre, the famous painter of flowers; the residence and grounds are artistic and universally admired. The
Italian Gardens at the residence of Mr. Or. W. Wattles, seen from the Hollywood boulevard (to the north), are a remarkable
example of landscape gardening. The Polytechnic High School, situated in a 12-acre campus on Highland avenue near
Sunset boulevard, is housed in imposing buildings and has a high standard of efficiency. Among the private schools of
Hollywood are the College of the Immaculate Heart (for girls) and the Hollywood School for Girls, both surrounded by beautiful
grounds. The public school system includes, besides the high school, grammar and primary schools and kindertens.
The Hollywood Hotel, built in the Mission style, is one of the well known tourist hostelries of Southern California. It
is situated at Olive avenue and Hollywood boulevard, and is surrounded with palms, tropical shrubs, ever blooming flowers
and rose gardens. Other hotels of Hollywood are the Mountain View Inn and Hotel Bonnie Brier (E. P.);
there are also a number of excellent apartment houses.
There are fine boulevards suitable for automobile driving in Hollywood. A suggested route is as follows: Along Vermont
avenue to Sunset boulevard, and thence west to Highland avenue, where a turn is made to the north through the
famous Cahuenga Pass and along the Calabasas Road to Laurel Canyon Inn, where the ascent of Lookout Mountain begins
over the new serpentine road. From the top of this mountain is one of the grandest views in all of the Southland ; the
eye roams over the great city and its picturesque suburbs, the mountains and hills, and the ocean on the western horizon.
The return on this auto route is made by way of Laurel Canyon, Hollywood boulevard and Franklin avenue. Throughout
the trip are seen palatial residences, blooming gardens and pleasant vistas which charm the visitor.

Southwest of here is the Beverly Hills district, with many attractive residences.
The Beverly Hills Hotel is popular with tourists (A. P. $3 up). Farther on (by way of the Pacific Electric lines) is the National Soldiers' Home, near Sawtelle. Here are the comfortable quarters of 3, (KM) war veterans, situated in a park of 700 acres.

The Cahuenga Valley, in which Hollywood is located, is a frostless belt which is a highly cultivated area, with orange, lemon, fig and walnut groves.
At Cahuenga the native Californian forces under Colonel Andreas Pico surrendered to the Americans under General Fremont, January 13, 1847.
This ended hostilities in California and gave the state into the hands of the Americans.

Source: CALIFORNIA TOURIST GUIDE AND HANDBOOK , TRAVEL AND POINTS OF INTEREST IN CALIFORNIA; Western Guidebook Company, 1913
[transcribed by: Candi Horton 2008]

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