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[edit] Reference requested
I have moved the following edit from the article to here until it is properly referenced.
- The city was developed by Joseph Young, a former resident of California. He chose to name the area after the town that had once been so attractive to him.
-- Dalbury(Talk) 00:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not going to revert your revert, Dal, but I know this is something of a fact. I think the writer had the best intent. I've seen this information elsewhere but couldn't site the source. Maybe the city's website? ℬastique▼parℓer♥voir♑ 04:23, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
- Yep, it's all right here: [1] --ℬ 04:26, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
- I started reverting edits from this editor because I could find nothing to support material he added to an article. I stopped reverting when I saw that there were sources for edits he made to other articles. I have asked him to provide references for his edits. I do want to discourage editors from adding unsourced material to articles as that only makes cleaning up the articles harder. -- Dalbury(Talk) 10:23, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Notes and trivia section
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Notes and trivia
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You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations.English is the main language, but Spanish is commonly spoken. Hollywood also has largest French-speaking community in the United States, thanks to the French Canadian snowbirds who flock to the city during the winter months. About 300,000 French Canadians migrate to the Greater Fort Lauderdale area every winter, Hollywood being the destination for the majority of them . There are also large West Indian and Romanian populations.
North of Hollywood is the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, portions of which are contained within the cities of Fort Lauderdale, Dania Beach and Hollywood as well as unincorporated Broward County.
Adam Walsh, the late son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh, was kidnapped from the Sears department store in the Hollywood Mall in 1981.
-- Donald Albury 20:46, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
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What is a sister city?
Buddmar 05:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)== History of Hollywood, Florida ==
First I would like to say that Hollywood is my home town, and I lived there for much of the first quarter century of my life. I was disappointed that there is very little on the history or importance of this town which is one of top ten in population in the state of Florida.
The "Diamond Of The Gold Coast" (Hollywood's official nick-name) used to be called "The Dream City" because the founder of this town, Mr. Joseph W. Young, dreamed of building a motion picture colony on the east coast and named his town in homage to the famous movie capital in California. Mr. Young purchased thousands of acres of land in c. 1920 where Hollywood is now located, between the established cities of Miami and Fort Lauderdale. It was part of a frenzied real estate boom that put South Florida in the nation's spotlight. Joseph Young dubbed his new town "Hollywood by the Sea" to distinguish it from another one of his real estate ventures - "Hollywood in the Hills", New York! This real estate boom abruptly ended because of the devastation caused by The Great Hurricaine of 1926 (these storms were not named back then). The damaged and loss of life in Hollywood was so great that local newspapers, such as the Miami Herald, reported that Hollywood was second only to Miami itself in suffering losses.
Hollywood is a planned city. It was carefully laid out not only with the usual streets and avenues but it features circles and crescents. Hollywood Boulevard from the downtown Young Circle park eastward to the A1A bridge on the beach is one of Florida's loveliest boulevards: it is very wide and planted with tall straight Royal Palms on either side, giving a grand and elegant appearence. On this strip of Hollwood Blvd. is the Joseph Young Mansion, perhaps the oldest house in Hollywood (c.1921), and a splendid example of Mediterranean architecture so fashionable in those days.
I know this because years ago a book called "The History of Hollywood" was published. Buddmar 05:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC) Buddmar
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[edit] History of Hollywood, Florida
Oops! I forgot to sign the piece I wrote yesterday! Buddmar 01:02, 6 January 2007 (UTC)buddmar
Bold textFamous People Who Have Died in Hollywood 1. Joe DiMaggio 2. Anna Nicole Smith Buddmar 23:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)buddmar
