Beverly Hills

History

The area of current Beverly Hills was fertile and marshy. The Amerindian S Tongva occupied the site before the arrival of Europeans and regarded it as crowned. The Spaniards of the forwarding of Gaspar de Portolà arrived the August 3rd 1769. The Franciscain S were also established and begun with évangéliser the Amerindians. The area was incorporated in the Mexico in 1821 then in the United States in 1850 (see the article on the Histoire of California). After having known one period of breeding (Ranch S), the sector of Beverly Hills benefitted one moment from the exploitation of oil: the ground was bought in 1900 by the Amalgamated Oil Company , then it passed between the hands of the Rodeo Land and Water Company , directed by Burton E. Green. This last baptized the city Beverly Hills and engaged a landscape designer, Wilbur D. Cook, which drew a city equipped with broad pieces and curvilinear streets, bordered of eucalyptus, acacias and palm trees. It created also the Park of Santa Monica ( Santa Monica Park ). The principal streets (Rodeo Drive, Carmelita Avenue, Burton Way, etc) appear for the first time within 1907.

In the years 1910, the residences leave ground quickly and start to occupy the landscape. The streets start to be equipped (public lighting) in 1915. The Beverly Hills Hotel is built in 1912 and becomes the appointment of the good company of the district: one found there one of the rare cinemas of the time. A tram line was built to connect Beverly Hills to Los Angeles by the district of Hollywood. In 1919, the actors Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) and Mary Pickford (1892-1979) buy a ground on Summit Drive . They were followed by other actors: Harold Lloyd in 1928, John Barrymore, Robert Montgomery and Miriam Hopkins. The population of Beverly Hills passed from 672 inhabitants in 1920 to 17.429 ten years later. In 1925, the citizens of Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and Los Angeles gave 100.000 dollars to buy a ground of 1,6 km ² in order to built the the University of California.

Geography

Beverly Hills is located at 34°4 ′ 23 ″ NR, 118°23 ′ 58 ″ W

According to the Office of the census of the United States, the city has an total surface area of 14,7 km ².

Its principal streets are the Wilshire Boulevard, the Santa Monica Boulevard, and the Sunset Boulevard. The principal commercial streets are Beverly Drive and Rodeo Drive. Coldwater Canyon Drive is the main roads making it possible to join the Vallée of San Fernando since Beverly Hills.

Demography

The community Iran ienne (Persan) of California concentrates in the district of Westwood and Beverly Hills (8000 Irano-American). 25% of the population and 40% of the pupils of the college of Beverly Hills are of Iranian origin. Since 2007, the mayor of Beverly Hills, Jimmy Delshad, is of Iranian origin. Tehrangeles

Celebrities

Robert Ziegler Leonard (1889 - 1968), died realizer with Beverly Hills.
Jerry Goldsmith (1929 - 2004), type-setter of film musics (Los Angeles - Beverly Hills).

Cinema & Television

Beverly Hills is used regularly as decoration with many films ( the Cop of Beverly Hills ), and televised series ( The Beverly Hillbillies and Beverly Hills 90210 ). One also remembers the film Pretty Woman in which Julia Roberts walked on Rodeo Drive. The city is twinned with Cannes, the French city of the cinema.

Education

the college of Beverly Hills was founded in 1928. Thanks to the proximity of an oil well, the college touches each year approximately 300.000 dollars.

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