27-08-03 04:59, S.Kalyanaraman wrote:
> Does Holly-wood have anything to do with 'holy'? Or is just a shrub?
Just bushes. And named so for no particularly good reason.
"Hollywood was founded in 1888 by Harvey Henderson Wilcox and his wife,
Daeida, as part of a residential development. It was Daeida who selected
the name after she met a lady on a train whose summer home was called
Hollywood."
http://www.beachcalifornia.com/tonight.html
Piotr