Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Hollywood was founded in the 1880s by Methodists from the Midwest who saw it as a place where temperance could flourish. It was a temperance venture, but it was also a real estate venture. #2 Hollywood was founded in 1903, and while it was a town that welcomed immigrants, it was also a town that banned anything that might lower the tone of the town. Instead, it welcomed nature and middle-class families who wanted to get away from cold weather and alcohol. #3 The first movie company to have offices in Southern California was the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, which was not the first movie company to have offices in California, but it was the first to establish year-round headquarters. #4 The gold rush was on in 1915, when the annual payroll of the studios in Hollywood totaled about twenty million dollars. By 1920, the population had grown to thirty-six thousand, and the new settlers were no longer teetotaling Midwesterners, but young men and women lured by the siren call of the movies

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