Phone call to the Los Angeles chamber of commerce

In order to get more info on industrial history of Hollywood I decided to call the Los Angeles chamber of commerce and the lady I spoke to gave me little information about what Hollywood was before it became Hollywood. She told me that back in the days In 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera (Nopal area), named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. In 1870, an agricultural community flourished in the area with thriving crops of many common and exotic varieties. The area was known to these residents as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. Soon thereafter, in 1990 the land turned into what is know today to be Hollywood.