[PW] "Hollywood" = "the movies" ?

[David Klappholz]

At 01:32 PM 5/6/2007, you wrote:
>It appears there was no exact date when Hollywood became synonymous 
>with the film industry.

There has to be a first appearance in print of "Hollywood" meaning 
"the movies," even if we can't yet identify it.

>   My sources for this are a thesis I did for my masters degree on 
> the First Family of Hollywood

I'd love to read the thesis; any chance I can get a copy?

Thanks
Dave

>and from a conversation yesterday with Mr. Delmar Watson of the 
>Watson family, aka, the First Family of Hollywood, who, with his 
>family, acted in movies during the Silent and Golden Age of Hollywood.
>
>David Klappholz <d.klappholz at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>   While many of the early movie studios, starting around 1910 or 1911,
>were actually in that part of L.A. known as "Hollywood," even many of
>the early L.A. studios were outside Hollywood, e.g., in Culver City,
>in Echo Park (Edendale), etc.
>
>Does anyone know how/when "Hollywood" came to mean "the movie
>industry" or, more generally, "the movies?"
>
>Dave
>
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