Hollywood

Hollywood is a city on the Atlantic coast of southeastern Florida, between Fort Lauderdale and Miami in Broward County. The Broadwalk, a brick promenade beside the beach, runs along its shore and is used by walkers and cyclists, with cafes along its length.

Joseph W. Young, a developer from California, founded the city in the 1920s and named it after Hollywood in his home state. He laid out a grid with wide boulevards, traffic circles and a lake, and built houses in the Mission and Mediterranean revival styles. His own house, a Spanish-style villa on Hollywood Boulevard, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Hollywood was incorporated in 1925, and its population grew quickly in the land boom of those years. The Seminole Tribe of Florida has its headquarters on the Hollywood Reservation, set aside in the 1920s on land at the western edge of the city.

HEICO, based in Hollywood, makes replacement parts for jet engines and electronic parts for aircraft. Port Everglades, which spreads across the line between Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale, handles cruise ships, containers and fuel tankers. The Seminole Tribe runs the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, whose hotel tower is built in the shape of a guitar and lit with colored lights at night.

ArtsPark at Young Circle, a park in the center of the old traffic circle, has an outdoor stage and art studios, and it holds concerts and markets through the year. The Anne Kolb Nature Center, in a mangrove forest beside the Intracoastal Waterway, has a lookout tower and boardwalks over the wetlands, with kayak trails through the mangrove channels.