Hollywood was founded to be a utopia for devout Christians

history.com ^ | Nov '09, updated Jul '19

[CondoleezzaProtege]

oops I meant 1781*

[CondoleezzaProtege]

There is no heaven on Earth until Christ’s return.

I agree, but I'm struck nonetheless that the idea of Hollywood being some sort of dream ideal, glittery world has stuck.

[Publius]

In a book about the Pacific Electric interurban system, there was a picture of the corner of Hollywood and Western in the mid-1890s. It consisted of one trolley track and a farmhouse in a field.

[stars & stripes forever]

I'm struck nonetheless that the idea of Hollywood being some sort of dream ideal, glittery world has stuck.

2 Corinthians 11:14 ~ And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Sure. Glad you like the recommendation. I read his Michelangelo book “The Agony and Ecstasy” and loved it. “Men to Match My Mountains” is fantastic.

[xp38]

The name Fremont is quite common out west as well. Let’s keep it as another secret that he was the first leader and Presidential candidate for the GOP.

[Yaelle]

.... sometimes things just don’t work out.....

[a fool in paradise]

He wouldn’t recognize the place today. Go West young man.

[mountn man]

Mount 0bama

...I imagine that’s happened more than once...

in a night.

[forgotten man]

The Hollywood mountain was named after the Don Lee Network. They owned the first television station in Los Angeles and they had their transmitter on top of the mountain.

I grew up in Los Angeles and I have three friends there whose families have been in Los Angeles since the 1850’s. It was not easy to get to Southern California before the railroad was built. My friends’ ancestors traveled by ship to the east coast of Central America. They walked across the isthmus of Nicaragua to the Pacific Coast. They then embarked on Clipper Ships and sailed to San Francisco, and walked from San Francisco to Los Angeles. You would have to be a little bit crazy to do that.

[dblshot]

More fitting would be renaming the La Brea Tar Pits after Obama.

[job]

too funny

[RedMonqey]

"The mountain is named after early Los Angeles car dealer and radio station owner Don Lee. Lee, a one-time bicycle shop owner who became a protégé of Los Angeles pioneer businessman Earle C. Anthony, purchased his Los Angeles radio station KHJ from Chandler in 1927.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lee

[OttawaFreeper]

Well, then there would have been the alternative involving rounding Cape Horn at the tip end of South America. Bet that made for some wild trips and was not for the faint of heart.

[Oscar in Batangas]

You’ve come a wrong way, baby

[logitech]

ping