Hollywood High School - Poinsettia Yearbook (Hollywood, CA)

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Hollywood in 1905, looking south from the hill just abooe Frank- building is in the center of the picture, at the corner of Sunset lin Avenue and Orange Drioe. The brand new High School and Highland. The house in the foreground is still standing. Title Insurance and Trust Company Holhwood Eighty years ago there was little to be seen in the Cahuenga Valley that Nature herself had not put there. Brown, scrub- covered hills, broken by the steep and rugged Cahuenga Pass, shut out the San Fernando Valley on the north. To the east, the thriving city of Los Angeles-population still under 40,000-had not as yet reached much beyond Figueroa Street. Far to the west was the sea. South of the Valley was the huge Rancho La Brea. Then people discovered the Valley. Well-to-do ranchers planted lemon and olive groves. Attempts were made to grow pineapples. The real estate boom of the 'eighties brought subdivisions and townsites. The village of Colegrove grew up around what is now 1 Santa Monica and Vine. Sherman, now VVest Hollywood, was put f H' on the map. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Wilcox laid out their town of Old Administration building Hollywood, named for Mrs. Wilcox's home town in Illinois, and

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