In 1886, leader Harvey Wilcox, left Kansas, he purchased 120 acres near Los Angeles to develop a new town. Although, there were no holly trees growing in that part of California, Mrs. Wilcox named the area Hollywood. Mrs. Wilcox may have named the place after a home owned by a friend living in Illinois. During the early years, settlers who shared the Wilcoxes’ values moved to the area and banned the recreational drinking of alcoholic beverages, however, some alcohol consumption was allowed for medicinal purposes. Nevertheless, by 1910, the first film studio opened its doors inside a tavern on Sunset Boulevard, within seven shorts years, the quiet community started by the Wilcoxes’ had vanished. Yes, Hortense, in the 1920’s, young women did indeed cut their hair, raise their hemlines, dab perfume behind their knees, and dance the
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In 1873, Cornell University cancelled the school’s first intercollegiate football game with Michigan when the president announced “I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles, merely to agitate a bag of
In 1873, Cornell University cancelled the school’s first intercollegiate football game with Michigan when the president announced “I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles, merely to agitate a bag of