Hollywood

Hollywood
Neighborhood of Los Angeles
The Four Ladies installation at the Hollywood Boulevard– La Brea Avenue Gateway
Nickname(s): Tinseltown
Map of the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, as delineated by the Los Angeles Times
Hollywood Location within Central Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34°6′0″N 118°20′0″W / 34.10000°N 118.33333°W / 34.10000; -118.33333
Country	United States
State	California
City	Los Angeles

Hollywood (/ˈhɒliwʊd/ HOL-ee-wuud, informally Tinseltown /ˈtɪnsəlˌtaʊn/) is an ethnically diverse, densely populated, relatively low-income neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U.S. film industry, including several of its historic studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people in it.

Hollywood was a small community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, and soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, eventually becoming the most recognizable film industry in the world.

In 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera (Nopal field), named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished. The area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north.