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It all started in a small village in the early 1900’s that developed into the most influential and wealthiest place in America. Hollywood. It was here that competition between studios and the need to make a profit submerged. Starting out as small film companies in the 1900’s, Hollywood over the years became a place and time of competition, publicity, and movie stars. The name Hollywood predated the arrival of movies. A woman named Deida Wilcox, for the ranch she and her husband owned in the Cahuenga Valley, adopted it. On a trip back east, Mrs. Wilcox spoke to a woman from Chicago who owned a country estate called Hollywood. She was so intrigued with the name that she and her husband named their own land after it. A few years later, Mr. Wilcox subdivided his land, and the small community that grew from this subdivision kept the Hollywood name. In 1919, a town joined it to Los Angeles, which undertook to supply water and a sewage system. From 1908 and on, film companies began to cluster around Hollywood, and the Nestor Film Company was the only company to actually settle at a location in Hollywood. However, the name was soon connected with movie-making and other companies wanted to be a part of it. Before long, Hollywood c