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Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality on November 14, 1903, by a vote of 88 for and 77 against. On January 30, 1904, the voters in Hollywood decided, 113 to 96, to banish the sale of liquor within the city, except for medicinal purposes.
In 1910 when Hollywood became part of the City of Los Angeles, almost before the ink was dry on the new city charter movie people had come to Hollywood. D.W. Griffith of New York’s Biograph Film Company brought a small company which included Mary Pickford and Mack Sennett as actors to Hollywood in March of 1910.
The name became Los Angeles Airport in 1941 and Los Angeles International Airport in 1949. In the 1930s, the main airline airports were Hollywood Burbank Airport (then known as Union Air Terminal, and later Lockheed) in Burbank and the Grand Central Airport in Glendale .
This led independent filmmakers to seek refuge out West, and many settled in a newly incorporated neighborhood of Los Angeles called Hollywood. (The area was initially founded as a religious community before the migration of filmmakers.)
It was in the neighborhood of Hollywood that the entertainment industry took root and blossomed. Hollywood became the birthplace of Hollywood, the center of the global film industry. In 1911, Nestor Studios, the first movie studio in the area, opened its doors in Hollywood.
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In 1910, Hollywood merged into Los Angeles, with 10 movie companies already operating in the city at the time.
