Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., situated northwest of Downtown. Due to its fame and identity as the historical center of movie studios and stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used colloquially to refer to the American film industry. Today much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as Burbank and the Westside, but significant ancillary industries (such as editing, effe ...

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• Hollywood Los Angeles California - Hollywood and the motion picture industry
• Hollywood Los Angeles California - Modern Hollywood
• Hollywood Los Angeles California - Runaways
• Hollywood Los Angeles California - Hollywood area neighborhoods
• Hollywood Los Angeles California - Education
• Hollywood Los Angeles California - Landmarks and interesting spots

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A serious problem for Hollywood since the 1960s has been its attractiveness for desperate runaways. Every year, hundreds of runaway adolescents flee broken homes across North America and flock to Hollywood hoping to become movie stars, as portrayed by the lyrics of the Burt Bacharach song Do You Know the Way to San Jose "All the stars /That never were /Are parking cars / And pumping gas." They soon discover they have extremely slim chances of competing against professionally trained actors and end up sinking into homelessness, which is a severe ...

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Hollywood Los Angeles California, Hollywood Los Angeles California - History, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Hollywood and the motion picture industry, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Modern Hollywood, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Runaways, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Hollywood area neighborhoods, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Education, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Landmarks and interesting spots

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In 1853, one adobe hut stood on the site that became Hollywood. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished in the area with thriving crops. In the 1880s, Harvey Henderson Wilcox of Kansas, who made a fortune in real estate even though he had lost the use of his legs due to typhoid fever, and his wife, Daeida, moved to Los Angeles from Topeka. In 1886, Wilcox bought 160 acres (0.6 km²) of land in the countryside to ...

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Hollywood Los Angeles California, Hollywood Los Angeles California - History, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Hollywood and the motion picture industry, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Modern Hollywood, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Runaways, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Hollywood area neighborhoods, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Education, Hollywood Los Angeles California - Landmarks and interesting spots

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