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This novel is set in fictitious Edgell, Massachusetts, where deaths seem to happen in the also fictitious old museum there called the Danford Cabinet of Curiosities and Art. The story : As people connected to the collection of still life paintings she is preparing to exhibit start to die, newly-hired Curator Robin Grinling fears for her own safety. A stranger in Edgell, she has no close allies until a moody Boston art dealer and a local Marxist art critic begin to offer clues.

Using her training in connoisseurship and iconography Robin sets about to identify the murderer quickly before others are done for at the Danford. For more about Michal Sherring and Done For , follow these websites: amazon. I look forward to meeting you. They are wonderful interviewers, asked helpful leading questions, making the whole experience quite enjoyable. The Hollywood Historical Society also sells my books. Call or email HollywoodFLhistory att.

Hollywood is not a simple grid around a central circle, nor is it just a city with a beach, those those are all part of it. On either end of his boulevard Young established a terminating vista, one handsome hotel on the ocean and the other hotel now gone on what was then the edge of the Everglades. To create elements of interest along this spine Young inserted three ornamental circles, one a park, the next the site for the city hall, and the western termination.

Please note, these were not intended as traffic circles, a means for slowing north-south traffic and yes, the city was planned for automobiles not horses.

The Federal Highway U. If Young had wanted to use a circle to slow traffic in the s, he would have put one on the Dixie Highway. From Young had his engineers create two lakes, North and South Lakes, from what was originally the East Marsh.

These added to the geometrical symmetry of his entire plan, with the circular lake heads repeating the circle theme, while framing the vista of the Beach Hotel on the Atlantic. At the west end the circle is banded by four arcing roads that lead the driver back to the center of town. Detail of previous pic, Boulevard looking west. Photo by G. Today there are North-South roads in Hollywood that Young never anticipated, and the city extends almost twice as far to the west as his original plan.

Sorry to have abandoned you for so long. Picture Navy women stationed in the Hollywood Beach Hotel in training as air navigation instructors together with male ensigns , taking old school buses to Opa Locka air field for their flight training. Picture Navy women stationed out west at the Riverside Military Academy campus the third circle , already trained to use weapons from handguns to machine guns, in turn training the young sailors who would be Naval air gunners.

If you live near Hollywood, come hear me speak about these Navy women on Saturday , December 3, It surprised even the admirals that women fit into the Navy so quickly. Quoting from the news of Aug. All the talks are free , and refreshments are served. In the last post I wrote about all the various travel routes through the land that is now Hollywood, Florida. In the 19 th century the soldiers on the military trails between Fort Lauderdale and Fort Dallas in Miami, rode horses.

In fact, they were NOT used in actual Hollywood , as you will see. The first motorized transport to pass through future Hollywood was the train.

This almost immediately put the horse as transportation out of business. Young bought the land, for those early trains were pulled by steam engines, which of course required water to produce the steam. What I recall of this contraption from my childhood was a structure with an arm that swung out over the engine, presumably with a hose to fill a tank. The news photo, above, is the Red Cross train heading to Miami following the hurricane.

Below, flyer from the FEC showing a 19th century train and a 30s Streamliner. But before he could drive around his planned city, he had to build the streets, so he invested in a fleet of small, nimble trucks. At first these carried workers who cleared the land, then came the surveyors to lay out the streets in the underbrush, then all the workers in general.

Or as I. Trucks at Kington Building, Reporter May Ward Kington now the Broward Building. These sites are Nos. According to William Osment, in an interview with Don Cuddy in August, , the trucks were started by means of hand-cranking. To quote Osment:. My first job in the morning was to see that all the trucks were out on the road. In those days you had to crank the Model T Ford by hand. We had more than a dozen men with broken arms hanging around there.

We used to push one truck up against the other in the morning to get them all started. We would get them all gassed up. We started them by pushing them rather than using the crank.

On cool mornings they are hard to start. While Sherron was working in the first garage, he said there were some 40 trucks; two years later when Osment worked on the trucks, he said there were one hundred. By then Young had moved the garage across the Dixie to an open-air shed. By trucks were everywhere in Hollywood, particularly delivery trucks, for ice, milk, luggage from the train, etc.

At left, truck delivering supplies like ice, milk, food, to the cafe at Tent City. Yale Studio photo, about Some buses commuted to Miami and back. These were used in particular by workers in the new city before there was enough housing. Kelly bus and White bus at Park View Hotel. Reporter April p. Young began with Green company buses, the dark ones in the photos, which brought visitors read: sales prospects up from Miami. By Young had invested in top of the line White company buses, with leather seats on the right in photo above.

With these he brought tourists from all over the eastern US. Young built his city with the automobile in mind. Hollywood Boulevard was created to provide a pleasant drive through the city, around ornamental circles, reaching a beautiful sight at either end, an expansive, well-designed and well-lit hotel.

Homes could be provided with garages and porte cocheres or car ports. Young, of course, could not foresee that personal autos would grow to be almost the size of his buses. Street, lower left, runs into the Highway along the bottom of the photo. The house has a handsome porte cochere, shown here with auto inside, and behind the house a detached garage, with living quarters above for perhaps the chauffeur. By Hollywood was jammed with autos. Below are samples:. At left, Hollywood Boulevard, At right, Harrison Street, And by there was at least one thriving car dealership, Sawyer Motor Company, which sold Fords and Lincolns from an expansive lot and garage at the northeast corner of 18 th Avenue and the Circle.

In background, Kriekhaus Building. Since a good part of the development of Hollywood involved water, dredges were to the lakes—and later to the port—as trucks were to the land. Young owned maybe a dozen of these expensive machines and even devoted a page in his sales books to dredges. Barges made it easier to move heavy materials such as rock, particularly rock dug out of the lake bottoms and later used by enterprising builders to create coral-rock houses.

Once the shape of a lake had been created, then rock was laid in to create seawalls. The barge that served as the bridge crossing at Johnson Street from the mainland to the beach island, was torn from its moorings by the foot deep tidal surge of the hurricane and carried as far inland as 16 th Avenue between the Boulevard and Tyler Street. Boats naturally played a good part in Hollywood transportation. Young loved boats. In the beginning, when there were no residential structures in his city, Young solved this problem by means of an enormous houseboat.

With this he could move back and forth from Miami where sales were made along the Inland Waterway to oversee the work in Hollywood. Crew on this floating apartment included a cook as Young entertained sales prospects on board—there are at least 10 people visible in the photo, and all those portholes surely indicate some cabins. Others sailed by on the Atlantic, or raced state-of-the-art speedboats on the Inland Waterway, or simply got to work by rowboat.

Taking the ferry to work, Port Everglades. William Osment, quoted earlier, was one of the drivers. Young invested in fire-fighting equipment and built a fire station early on, before the city was incorporated. Clarence Moody organized the fire department for Young, about Then to his chagrin, the first fire they had to deal with was a grass fire set by his own very young son.

Young in , was at the corner of Polk Street and 19th Avenue. Photo by Higby, from the collection of the Hollywood Historical Society. The land before Today I will go backwards. Young acquired it, or about our Florida in general.

Born and raised here, I learned the basics in school, but of course half my readers went to school somewhere else. So here is some basic Florida history, with a bias toward Hollywood. Florida is a comparatively old state, having entered the union in Hollywood California is a part of the much larger area of Los Angeles and Hollywood Florida is considered to be a part of the Greater Fort Lauderdale area OR Miami Metropolitan area, as it is pretty much sandwiched right in between the two.

When it comes to the population of both cities, you have to ask yourself if you are basing the number off of the small communities themselves, or the greater metropolitan area they are a part of. Hollywood Florida has a population of about ,, but the Greater Miami Metropolitan area sits at an impressive 6.

West Hollywood California has a population of about 37,, whereas the greater Los Angeles Metropolitan area has an astounding One of the most drastic changes you will find between the cities is the food options, and price of sed options, available in each. Hollywood California boasts high-quality, higher-priced meals fit for celebrities, as you may guess, some of its most popular eateries being Papilles, The Hungry Cat, and Musso and Frank Grill.

The types of food range from Americana steakhouse and bistro style to new infusion cuisines fresh from our countries most up and coming chefs. In Hollywood Florida, you will have one type of food on your mind the entire time, and that is fresh seafood! Undeterred, Joseph Young's vision of his "Dream City" included one last inspiration.

While grounded in a speedboat on a mud flat in shallow Lake Mabel one afternoon, Young developed his visionary concept while awaiting rescue from his predicament.

His idea was to dredge a deep-water seaport from the shallow lake north of Hollywood to the Atlantic Ocean, so that ships from around the world could dock and disembark eager visitors and tourists to Hollywood.

In February , Young's vision became a reality. From that initial predicament, the present day Port Everglades grew from a shallow lake into one of the busiest seaports in Florida.

By the end of the decade, Hollywood's population had risen from 2, in to 4, in and to 6, in With the end of the war in , new management was installed at the Hollywood Beach Hotel; the hotel repainted and refurbished and building permits were secured to build the largest swimming pool and cabana club in the United States.

The city's population continued to grow, reaching over 7, in and almost doubling to 14, by Even two hurricanes in the fall of failed to deter the city's renewed growth. Despite his best efforts to promote the new seaport and the City of Hollywood, Young's precarious financial situation caused him to ultimately lose control of his vast Hollywood holdings to a sheriff's auction on the steps of a Fort Lauderdale courthouse in Young continued to live in his beloved city until April , when he collapsed in his Hollywood Boulevard home and died of heart failure at the age of In the wake of Young's financial collapse and untimely death, two of his principal creditors formed new corporations in an attempt to renew the growth of Hollywood.

Led by Hollywood, Inc. Early in the 30s, construction began on Federal Highway U. Construction also began on the Hollywood Hills Inn on the site of the westernmost circle. In , the inn was converted into the Riverside Military Academy and the circle renamed Academy Circle. By , the city added to its recreational facilities with the opening of the Orangebrook Golf and Country Club and Dowdy Field, a local baseball park that later became the spring training home of the Baltimore Orioles for a short while.

In , the city added a water softener system to its municipal water plant and the original Fiesta Tropicale celebration was inaugurated. The hospital was opened in February , providing hospital beds and a major medical facility for southern Broward County. In , Joseph Watson became Hollywood's twenty-second city manager since the city's incorporation in During the next eighteen years, Hollywood would know only one city manager.

Lauderdale or Miami will get you here as well, with just a tad bit more travel involved. The easiest way to get around Hollywood and South Florida is by car.

If renting, it is substantially less money to rent a car from a location outside of the airport. The city is set up on grid system, and is fairly easy to navigate.

Highways including U. Highway 1 , US 27 and US Fort Lauderdale Airport is served by all national and regional rental car franchises. As such has numerous boat charter companies. It is a great way to see the area. Hollywood offers a clean, excellent beach complete with its "Broadwalk" pedestrian path, which offers oceanfront shopping, dining, entertainment, strolling, a running path and a biking path.

Bike rentals are available. There is also a Beach Theater on the Broadwalk at Johnson Street, with cultural arts performances normally 5 nights per week weather permitting.