Hollywood, a district northwest of downtown Los Angeles, was the first American city shaped by the automobile. The word “motel” was coined by a local architect in 1925, and the word “supermarket,” where people now drove to shop, was coined there in 1927. Nevertheless, a great deal of transportation to and from Hollywood was via the red cars of the Pacific Electric Railway, southern California’s mass transit system. Read more about the culture of Hollywood and Los Angeles in the last century in A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (see NOVELS).
A Hollywood architect coined the word “motel” in 1925
