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 recorders 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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oops I meant 1781*
I agree, but I'm struck nonetheless that the idea of Hollywood being some sort of dream ideal, glittery world has stuck.
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.
2 Corinthians 11:14 ~ And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
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.
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.
.... sometimes things just dont work out.....
He wouldnt recognize the place today. Go West young man.
Mount 0bama
...I imagine that’s happened more than once...
in a night.
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.
More fitting would be renaming the La Brea Tar Pits after Obama.
too funny
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.
You’ve come a wrong way, baby
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