HOLLYWOOD, FLA -- PART 2

THE PERFECT SOUTH FLORIDA SEASIDE CITY

For the record, Hollywood is named for the more famous movie town in Southern California.

When Joseph Wesley Young founded Hollywood in 1926, he named his coastal Florida development for the Southern California city that he admired while living in that state.

Young’s palm-lined boulevards and grand circles of parkland have grown up to be a thriving Broward County city of 140,000.

Hollywood is Florida’s ninth largest city – and a place that values the vast diversity of its residents.

For a long time, a significant number of Hollywood’s peak winter season visitors were from Canada.

Several small hotels along the Atlantic still advertise that their workers speak French, that rooms have television “en Francais” and cafes appeal to the French Canadian palate.

However, with tough economy, fewer north of the border sun seekers are coming to Hollywood lately.

FEATURE CONTINUES TOMORROW -- MAY 4