Summary of Robert J. Wagner & Scott Eyman's You Must Remember This

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#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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• Fiction
• Literature
• Literary

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 15 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822599130
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#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.

#5

The first fortunes of Southern California were made by oil, agriculture, railroads, and real estate. In Beverly Hills, real estate and natural resources were closely intertwined. By the 1920s, everything had exploded outward.

#6

In 1937, the town was beginning to hum again because of the quality of the movies being made. The studios manufactured one of the few means of escape for a world that was still struggling with the effects of the crash.

#7

I loved California, and I immediately felt at home there. The first tract Alphonzo Bell developed was two hundred acres, which he divided into parcels of several acres apiece. He added polo fields, tennis courts, and a country club.

#8

I had a summer job at a hotel, and I became close friends with another boy named Noel Clarebut. He introduced me to his mother, Helena, who ran the dining room and the antiques gallery at the hotel. Helena became a tremendous influence on my life.

#9

The trolleys in Los Angeles began in 1894 with horse-drawn cars. By 1895, there was an electric rail line connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena, and a line that connected Los Angeles with what would become Hollywood and Beverly Hills, all the way to Santa Monica.

#10

The trolley systems in Los Angeles were extremely well engineered, efficient, and environmentally sound. They were a crucial factor in how Los Angeles developed the way it did. Because the trolleys made travel simple and cheap, they encouraged very expansive development.

#11

The trolleys were replaced by buses, which were in turn replaced by cars, which replaced the trolleys completely in the 1950s. The only remnants of trolley culture today are Angel’s Flight, a historical funicular that takes you just three hundred feet uphill, and the Arrowhead Springs Hotel, which was partially financed by Darryl Zanuck.

#12

The Arrowhead Springs Hotel was designed by Draper, who also wrote bestselling books. It was a top-to-bottom design that was rare for the era. It felt like money, and it felt predominantly feminine.