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Hollywood was founded to be a utopia for devout Christians
history.com ^ | Nov '09, updated Jul '19

Posted on 12/03/2019 11:24:34 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

On this day [February 1] in 1887, Harvey Wilcox officially registers Hollywood with the Los Angeles County recorder’s office.

Wilcox, who had lost the use of his legs as a child due to polio, envisioned the land as the perfect site for a utopian-like community for devout Christians, where they could live a highly moral life free of vices such as alcohol (Wilcox was a prohibitionist). Daeida Wilcox called the new community “Hollywood.”

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To: forgotten man

oops I meant 1781*


21 posted on 12/03/2019 11:55:00 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Telepathic Intruder
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.

22 posted on 12/03/2019 11:56:52 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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.


23 posted on 12/03/2019 11:58:50 AM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
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.

24 posted on 12/03/2019 12:01:00 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm ( 32:12))
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To: ConservativeDude

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.


25 posted on 12/03/2019 12:02:29 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: forgotten man

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.


26 posted on 12/03/2019 12:04:06 PM PST by xp38
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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


27 posted on 12/03/2019 12:04:46 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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


28 posted on 12/03/2019 12:05:18 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: forgotten man

Mount 0bama

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

in a night.


29 posted on 12/03/2019 12:08:09 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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.


30 posted on 12/03/2019 12:18:06 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: forgotten man

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


31 posted on 12/03/2019 12:49:51 PM PST by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Bob434

too funny


32 posted on 12/03/2019 1:01:37 PM PST by job
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To: forgotten man
"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
33 posted on 12/03/2019 1:36:59 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: forgotten man

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.


34 posted on 12/03/2019 2:18:42 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

You’ve come a wrong way, baby


35 posted on 12/03/2019 3:02:26 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: logitech

ping


36 posted on 05/03/2020 1:34:12 PM PDT by logitech
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