They founded Hollywood in the back woods of Los Angeles, because they were using Edison's inventions without a license and he was suing them. They felt that being in Los Angeles put them beyond the long arm of the law. And it did. Incidentally, the ancients believed that in order to make a spell stick you had to have a physical medium to "cast" that spell into the world. The medium of choice for most was a want, but, they further believed, that in order for the wand to work it had to be made out of a particular type of wood: holly wood.