Hollywood, California. City and Business guide.

Welcome to Hollywood, California.

Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, situated west-northwest of Downtown. Neighboring areas are West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Las Feliz area, Silverlake. Reaching up into the hills or sprawling onto the flatlands, Hollywood has something for everyone.

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.

Hollywood encompasses approximately 18 square miles, has an estimated population of 277,642. Among some of its attractions and landmarks include Mann's Chinese Theater, the Walk of Fame, Griffith Park, the Hollywood Bowl, Capitol Records and Paramount Studios.

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The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of celebrities honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for their contributions to the entertainment industry.

While motion picture production still occurs within the Hollywood district, most major studios are actually located elsewhere in the Los Angeles region. Paramount Studios is the only major studio still physically located within Hollywood. Other studios in the district include the aforementioned Jim Henson (formerly Chaplin) Studios, Sunset Gower Studios, and Raleigh Studios.

The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheatre at 2301 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances. It officially opened in 1922 on the site of a natural amphitheatre formerly known as the Daisy Dell, and has been the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since then. The Bowl is also home to a second resident ensemble, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.

The El Capitan Theatre is a fully restored movie palace at 6838 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. When the theater opened in 1926 as "Hollywood's First Home of Spoken Drama," it featured a Spanish colonial exterior designed by the architectural firm of Morgan, Walls and Clements, and a lavish East Indian interior by theatre designer G. Albert Lansburgh. It was later completely remodeled in the moderne style. In 1941, Citizen Kane made its world debut here.

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