Griffith Park and Observatory is owned and operated by the Department of Recreation and Parks of the City of Los Angeles. A miner and real estate entrepreneur, Griffith J. Griffith, donated the land, more than three thousand acres, in 1896 for use as a public park. Unfortunately, due to a recent fire, the hiking trails [...]
February 23, 2012
Hollywood, California History and Information
Hollywood, California! Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., situated west-northwest of Downtown. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and stars, the word “Hollywood” is often used as a metonym for the American film and television industry. Today much of the movie industry has dispersed [...]
Yucca Corridor
The Yucca Corridor is a small, diverse, and densely populated neighborhood of Hollywood centered along most of the length of Yucca Street. The neighborhood lies north of Hollywood Boulevard and south of Franklin Avenue between Highland Avenue and Vine Street. It is about half a mile long and a quarter mile tall. The Yucca Corridor [...]
West Hollywood
More Information is available at: AboutWeHo.com Including: Shopping, Dining, Nightlife, and so much more! West Hollywood, an incorporated city in Los Angeles County, California, was founded on 29 November 1984. The total residential population is just over 37,000; however, the nighttime and weekend population swells to between 80,000 and 100,000, with a high of up [...]
North Hollywood | San Fernando Valley
North Hollywood is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles. North Hollywood, like most of the rest of the San Fernando Valley, was once part of the vast landholdings of the Franciscan Mission San Fernando Rey de Espasa, which were confiscated by the government during the Mexican period [...]
Melrose Hill
Melrose Hill is a small neighborhood within the city of Los Angeles, California, tucked away in an area of Hollywood near Hancock Park. Melrose Hill is generally included in Hollywood, not in East Hollywood, which begins north and east of the 101 Freeway. Though the area’s boundaries on Melrose Avenue have recently been designated by [...]
Melrose District
Melrose District is a commercial and residential community in the Hollywood district of the City of Los Angeles, California. The term “Melrose District” may be used interchangeably by some with the “Fairfax District” which is a nearby area lacking strictly defined boundaries. However, the Melrose district, a sub-district of the Fairfax district or not, refers [...]
East Hollywood
East Hollywood is a community that forms the eastern portion of the Hollywood district in the City of Los Angeles, California. It encompasses part of Hollywood east of Western Ave. and north of U.S. Route 101. This includes the smaller communities of Thai Town, Virgil Village, and Little Armenia, and lies near Los Feliz and [...]
Hollywood Hills
The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of the City of Los Angeles, California, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood, on the south side of the Valley, to Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu and Pacific Palisades. [...]
Cahuenga Pass – Hollywood, California
The Cahuenga Pass (from the indigenous Tongva language) (el. 745 ft. / 227 m) is a mountain pass through the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains in the Hollywood district of the City of Los Angeles, California. It connects the Los Angeles Basin to the San Fernando Valley via the Hollywood Freeway U.S. Route [...]
