Hollywood (Memphis)

Hollywood is a neighborhood on the North side of Memphis, Tennessee.

Hollywood, North Memphis, is one of the largest neighborhoods in the Memphis urban area, and takes its name from Hollywood Street, which bisects it north to south. Its range expands from the point of North Hollywood Street and Chelsea Avenue in the north side of Memphis. The Hollywood neighborhood is bounded by North McLean Boulevard to the west and Warford Street (Douglass) to the east. The Douglass Community and the Hollywood Community were divided by the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is also bordered by Binghampton on the south.

In the early 1900s Hollywood was the place to go, if you lived in the communities of Douglass and Jackson - near Greg Junior High School. Young men and women would dress up and head out on foot to go to nice restaurants in Hollywood rather than travel an hour on the number 8 bus to go downtown or to transfer one or more buses to Beale Street or Mid-town. The Hollywood Community had movie theaters, an outdoor shopping mall, the community center and many large grocery and shopping stores.

Through the years, the Hollywood Community began to change. The junior high school was closed and its students were bused to Douglass in the Douglass Community. Hollywood school never went beyond the ninth grade but its junior high basketball team, the maroon and white Birddogs, were a force in the 1940s and early 1950s. It's 1949 City Championship team was undoubtedly the most successful for that era. Students from Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s and 1960s went on to high school primarily to Memphis Technical or "Tech" with some going on to Humes High School, in 1954 a few started going east to Treadwell High School. Hollywood had very good, competent and dedicated long-tenured principals and teachers also during those days, as was later evidenced by their students' high school and later-life accomplishments. The movie theater began to play re-runs daily of old Bruce Lee movies. Many of the families moved out of the community despite the newly built clinic just off the main street of Chelsea in the approximate year of 1980. Soon, all the major stores except Piggly Wiggly were closed as well. Hollywood remains one of North Memphis's high crime areas. In 2008 Hollywood contributed in the multitude of murders in Memphis.

Three 6 Mafia members, and brothers Juicy J and Project Pat are from the Hyde Park area near Hollywood. It is sometimes referred to by fellow Memphians as "Holly-Hood", "Pocket Town." and "Tha Park".

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