Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles

Monday, 10 June 2019 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination:
Category/Kategorie: General, Greater Los Angeles Area, Environment
Reading Time:  3 minutes

© panoramio.com - Ameer Attia/cc-by-3.0

© panoramio.com – Ameer Attia/cc-by-3.0

The Hollywood Hills is a hillside neighborhood of the same name in the central region of the city of Los Angeles. The Hollywood Hills straddle the Cahuenga Pass within the Santa Monica Mountains. The neighborhood touches Studio City, Universal City and Burbank on the north, Griffith Park on the north and east, Los Feliz on the southeast, Hollywood on the south and Hollywood Hills West on the west. It includes Forest Lawn Memorial Park, the Hollywood Reservoir, the Hollywood Sign, the Hollywood Bowl and the John Anson Ford Theater.

Hollywood Hills is bisected southeast-northwest by US 101. The neighborhood is bounded on the northwest and north by the Los Angeles city line, on the east by a fireroad through Griffith Park, continuing on Western Avenue, on the south by Franklin Avenue and on the west by an irregular line that includes Outpost Drive.

Hollywood and Hollywood Hills © BenSherman © Jared Ziegers/cc-by-sa-4.0 Mount Lee and Hollywood sign © Downtowngal/cc-by-sa-3.0 © panoramio.com - Ameer Attia/cc-by-3.0 © Singhalawap/cc-by-sa-3.0 Stahl House with view over Los Angeles © Ovs
<
>
Mount Lee and Hollywood sign © Downtowngal/cc-by-sa-3.0
Hollywood Hills contains several neighborhoods: Laurel Canyon, Beachwood Canyon, Cahuenga Pass, Franklin Village, Hollywood Dell, Hollywood Heights, Hollywoodland, Outpost Estates and Whitley Heights. A total of 21,588 people lived in the neighborhood’s 7.05 square miles, according to the 2000 U.S. census—averaging 3,063 people per square mile, among the lowest population densities in the city or the county. The population was estimated at 22,988 in 2008. The median age for residents was 37, considered old for the city and the county. The percentages of residents aged 19 through 64 were among the county’s highest.

The median household income in 2008 dollars was $69,277, considered high for the city but about average for the county. The percentage of households earning $125,000 or more was high, compared to the county at large. The average household size of 1.8 people was relatively low. Renters occupied 56.5% of the housing units, and homeowners the rest. In 2000, there were 270 families headed by single parents, or 6.9%, a rate that was low in both the county and the city.

Read more on Wikipedia Hollywood Hills (Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State - Weather report by weather.com - Global Passport Power Rank - Travel Risk Map - Democracy Index - GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank - Global Competitiveness Report - Corruption Perceptions Index - Press Freedom Index - World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index - UN Human Development Index - Global Peace Index - Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). Photos by Wikimedia Commons. If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.




Recommended posts:

Share this post: (Please note data protection regulations before using buttons)

Marina del Rey in California

Marina del Rey in California

[caption id="attachment_150373" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Marina del Rey © Coolcaesar/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Marina del Rey is an affluent seaside community in Los Angeles County in California. A Westside locale, the population is at 9,000. Fisherman's Village offers a view of Marina del Rey's dominant feature, the Marina, the world's largest man-made small craft harbor with 19 marinas with capacity for 5,300 boats and is home port to approximately 6,500 boats. The harbor, the Los Angeles Times said in 19...

[ read more ]

Èze on the French Riviera

Èze on the French Riviera

[caption id="attachment_236236" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Èze and Cap Ferrat, seen from Grande Corniche © Tobi 87/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Èze is a seaside commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. It is located on the French Riviera, 8.5 km (5.2 mi) to the northeast of Nice and 4.5 km (2.7 mi) to the west of Monaco. In 2018, Èze had a population of 2,225. Its inhabitants are known as Ezasques (masculine and feminine). Èze-Village can be ...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Chile

Theme Week Chile

[caption id="attachment_164044" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Santiago de Chile at night © Javmoraga/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Chile is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. Chile...

[ read more ]

Musée des Confluences in Lyon

Musée des Confluences in Lyon

[caption id="attachment_185203" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Tibidibtibo/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Musée des Confluences is a science centre and anthropology museum which opened on 20 December 2014 in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, (Rhône department). It is located at the southern tip of the Presqu'île at the confluence of the Rhône and the Saône, adjacent to Autoroute A7, and comprises part of a larger redevelopment project of the Confluence quarter of Lyon. The deconstructivist architectural desig...

[ read more ]

Großburgwedel in Lower Saxony

Großburgwedel in Lower Saxony

[caption id="attachment_161178" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Half-timbered house from 1570 © Losch[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Großburgwedel is a village northeast of Hanover and is the administrative centre of the town of Burgwedel. Großburgwedel is home to the town hall of Burgwedel and other town institutions such as the library, a hospital for the region of Hanover. It also has a grammar school, secondary school, secondary modern school and special needs school, as well as a builder's yard and open air swimming ...

[ read more ]

The three-masted Thor Heyerdahl

The three-masted Thor Heyerdahl

[caption id="attachment_152649" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Thor Heyerdahl in Kiel © VollwertBIT/cc-by-sa-2.5[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Thor Heyerdahl , originally named Tinka, later Marga Henning, Silke, and Minnow, was built as a freight carrying motor ship with auxiliary sails at the shipyard Smit & Zoon in Westerbroek, Netherlands, in 1930. Her original homeport being Hamburg, she was used for the next 50 years as a freighter. Eventually sailing unter the flag of Panama as Minnow and then awaiting further use i...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Ticino - Bellinzona

Theme Week Ticino - Bellinzona

[caption id="attachment_230941" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Bellinzona and Castelgrande castle in the foreground © Ealgiuas/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Bellinzona is a municipality, a historic Swiss town, and the capital of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The town is famous for its three castles (Castelgrande, Montebello, Sasso Corbaro) that have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2000. The town lies east of the river Ticino, at the foot of the Alps. It stretches along the river valley, surrounded by th...

[ read more ]

Port Grimaud on the French Riviera

Port Grimaud on the French Riviera

[caption id="attachment_150930" align="aligncenter" width="578"] © port-grimaud.fr[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Port Grimaud is part of Grimaud. It is located west of Saint-Tropez and south-east of Sainte-Maxime. This seaside town was created by architect François Spoerry in the 1960s based around the marshes of the river Giscle on the bay of Saint Tropez. Built with channels in a Venetian manner, but with French "Fishermans" style houses resembling those in Saint Tropez. The mainly traffic free town is popular with boat ...

[ read more ]

European Heritage Label

European Heritage Label

[caption id="attachment_233989" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Andrijana F/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The European Heritage Label is a recognition awarded by the European Union to buildings, documents, museums, archives, monuments or events which are seen as milestones in the creation of today's Europe. The program is managed by the European Commission. The European Heritage Label started as an intergovernmental initiative between 17 individual EU member states during a meeting in Granada, Spain on 28 Ap...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Asturias - Avilés

Theme Week Asturias - Avilés

[caption id="attachment_217424" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Calle Galiana © flickr.com - Ángel M. Felicísimo/cc-by-2.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Avilés is a town in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main cities in the Principality of Asturias. The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, in a land that belonged to the sea, surrounded by small promontories, all of them having an altitude of less than 140 metres. Situated in the Avilés estuary, in the Northern Central area of the ...

[ read more ]

Return to TopReturn to Top
© 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France: The venues

The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is the eighth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international football...

© J.-H. Janßen/cc-by-sa-4.0
Hotel Atlantic Kempinski Hamburg

The Hotel Atlantic Kempinski is a luxury hotel in Hamburg, Germany. The five star superior hotel is located in the...

© Bimal Mehta/cc-by-sa-4.0
The Bund in Shanghai

The Bund or Waitan is a waterfront area in central Shanghai. The area centers on a section of Zhongshan Road...

Close