- Hollywood, Memphis
Hollywood is a neighborhood in
Memphis, Tennessee .Geography
The central point of Hollywood is North Hollywood Street and Chelsea Avenue in the northside of Memphis. It is typically bound by North McLean Boulevard to the west and Warford Street to the east. Hollywood borders another neighborhood called Douglass. The Douglass Community and the Hollywood Community were divided by the Southern Pacific Railroad.
History
In the early 1900s Hollywood was the place to go, if you lived in the communities of Douglass and Jackson - near Greg Junior High School. Young men and women would dress up and head out on foot to go to nice restaurants in Hollywood rather than travel an hour on the number 8 bus to go downtown or to transfer one or more buses to Beale Street or Mid-town. The Hollywood Community had movie theaters, an outdoor shopping mall, the community center and many large grocery and shopping stores.
Through the years, the Hollywood Community began to change. The high school was closed and its students were bused to Douglass High School in the Douglass Community. The movie theater began to play re-runs daily of old Bruce Lee movies. Many of the families moved out of the community despite the newly built clinic just off the main street of Chelsea in the approximate year of 1980. Soon, all the major stores except Piggly Wiggly were closed as well.
Music
Three Six Mafia membersFact|date=August 2007, and brothersJuicy J andProject Pat are from the Hyde Park area of HollywoodFact|date=August 2007. It is sometimes referred to by fellow Memphians as "Holly-Hood"Fact|date=August 2007 or "Pocket Town."Fact|date=August 2007External links
* [http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/opinion_columnists/article/0,1426,MCA_539_3614672,00.html Article about the neighborhood]
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