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ID: 7013837
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013837
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Hollywood (neighborhood)  Hollywood (neighborhood)

Coordinates:
Lat: 34 05 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 34.0833  decimal degrees
Long: 118 19 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -118.3167  decimal degrees

Note: Was laid out by Horace Wilcox from Kansas, as a community based on strict religious principles; mild climate attracted film industry in early 1900s; name is still synonymous with movie business, though today mainly television studios are located here.

Names:
Hollywood (preferred,C,V)  ............ named in 1850s by Daeida, wife of Prohibitionist Horace Wilcox, after the home of a friend in Chicago

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of California (state)  ............  California (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Los Angeles (county)  ................  Los Angeles (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Los Angeles (inhabited place)  ....................  Los Angeles (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of Hollywood (neighborhood)  ........................  Hollywood (neighborhood) (P)

Place Types:
neighborhood (preferred, C)  ............  settled in mid-19th cen., became a district of Los Angeles in 1910

Sources and Contributors:
Hollywood..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 394
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 11-12
....................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6048500
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 394
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 11-12
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6048500
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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