SAW HOLLYWOOD GROW

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 3

SAW HOLLYWOOD GROW

Our Own Correspondent.)

American Visitor to Auckland DEVELOPING LOS ANGELES

(From

AUCKLAND, This Day. A man who saw Hollywood grow from an area of a few citrus orchards and seattered dwellings to the far-fam-ed niotion picture city passed througa Auckland in the Monterey. He is Mr W. H. Hay, who was m business in Los Angeles for 50 years as a developer of real estate. It was Mr Hay, in fact, who helped to open up Hollywood by putting through some of its main streets. Fifty years ago Mr Hay came down to Dos Angeles from Canada and found it a city of 11,000 people. Its population has grown since then to a million and a half. In his work of subdivid.ing part of Hollywood he was instrumental in carryjng the famous Sunset Boulevarde through to the ocean. The "Riverside Drive" of Los Angeles, this highway links the city of Hollywood with Santa Monica^ At the present time, sald Mr Hay, the most active part of Hollywood as far as real estate development was.concerned was a section of a neighbouring valley. There was already one studio there, and film stars were choosiug sites for beautiful homes. The wellknown director, Darryl Zanuck, was just completing a 40-000 dollar polo field. Mr Hay, in company with his wif e, is making the round trip as a holiday tour. He has retired almost wholly from business, but he owns a residential block known as "The Garden of Allah."