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 == The 1920s ==
 {{Main article|Hollywood in the 1920s}}
-{{Newspaper|subheading|right|vintage|“Mightosaurus”|Colossal dinosaur hitherto unknown to science tears through downtown L.A.|Illustrated Daily News|October 1923}}Business was booming during the Roaring 20s, so called due to (in part) the discovery of the [[Gwanji Valley]] in Northern California. The thrill of uncovering a lost world of prehistoric monsters, along with the obvious entertainment value, far outweighed what many saw as a potential danger. The Valley became one of the hottest new spots for film production, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Dozens of new studios were founded at this time, with over half surviving through the decade. These included [[Bernard Bros.]] and [[Whit Jolley Animation]], which would both later become members of the [[Big Five]].
+{{Newspaper|subheading|right|vintage|“Mightosaurus”|Colossal dinosaur, hitherto<br>unknown to science,<br>tears through downtown L.A.|Illustrated Daily News|October 1923}}Business was booming during the Roaring 20s, so called due to (in part) the discovery of the [[Gwanji Valley]] in Northern California. The thrill of uncovering a lost world of prehistoric monsters, along with the obvious entertainment value, far outweighed what many saw as a potential danger. The Valley became one of the hottest new spots for film production, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Dozens of new studios were founded at this time, with over half surviving through the decade. These included [[Bernard Bros.]] and [[Whit Jolley Animation]], which would both later become members of the [[Big Five]].
 What was later understood to be Hollywood's first [[kaiju]] incident occurred in 1923, with [[Mightosaurus]] causing property damage and extensive loss of life. However, several hours of highly usable footage meant the city saw it as a net gain to the point of intentionally trying to bait a second incident, but with little success.

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	The modern era continues to be indecently good to Hollywood, which continues to be indecent in return. The film industry retains its tight stranglehold over the region, as well as affecting both domestic policy and global trends. [[President of the United States\|President]] [[Chuck Chambers]] continues to lead the country from [[White House Tower]], mentally and physically fit for the strenuous demands of the position despite being both over 110 years old and a misanthropic sociopath.		The modern era continues to be indecently good to Hollywood, which continues to be indecent in return. The film industry retains its tight stranglehold over the region, as well as affecting both domestic policy and global trends. [[President of the United States\|President]] [[Chuck Chambers]] continues to lead the country from [[White House Tower]], mentally and physically fit for the strenuous demands of the position despite being both over 110 years old and a misanthropic sociopath.

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 == The 1920s ==
 {{Main article|Hollywood in the 1920s}}
-Business was booming during the Roaring 20s, so called due to (in part) the discovery of the [[Gwanji Valley]] in Northern California. The thrill of uncovering a lost world of prehistoric monsters, along with the obvious entertainment value, far outweighed what many saw as a potential danger. The Valley became one of the hottest new spots for film production, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Dozens of new studios were founded at this time, with over half surviving through the decade. These included [[Bernard Bros.]] and [[Whit Jolley Animation]], which would both later become members of the [[Big Five]].
+{{Newspaper|subheading|right|vintage|“Mightosaurus”|Colossal dinosaur hitherto unknown to science tears through downtown L.A.|Illustrated Daily News|October 1923}}Business was booming during the Roaring 20s, so called due to (in part) the discovery of the [[Gwanji Valley]] in Northern California. The thrill of uncovering a lost world of prehistoric monsters, along with the obvious entertainment value, far outweighed what many saw as a potential danger. The Valley became one of the hottest new spots for film production, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Dozens of new studios were founded at this time, with over half surviving through the decade. These included [[Bernard Bros.]] and [[Whit Jolley Animation]], which would both later become members of the [[Big Five]].
-{{Newspaper|subheading|right|vintage|“Mightosaurus”|Colossal dinosaur hitherto unknown to science tears through downtown L.A.|Illustrated Daily News|October 1923}}What was later understood to be Hollywood's first [[kaiju]] incident occurred in 1923, with [[Mightosaurus]] causing property damage and extensive loss of life. However, several hours of highly usable footage meant the city saw it as a net gain to the point of intentionally trying to bait a second incident, but with little success.
+What was later understood to be Hollywood's first [[kaiju]] incident occurred in 1923, with [[Mightosaurus]] causing property damage and extensive loss of life. However, several hours of highly usable footage meant the city saw it as a net gain to the point of intentionally trying to bait a second incident, but with little success.
 == The 1930s ==

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 {{Main article|Hollywood in the 1920s}}
 Business was booming during the Roaring 20s, so called due to (in part) the discovery of the [[Gwanji Valley]] in Northern California. The thrill of uncovering a lost world of prehistoric monsters, along with the obvious entertainment value, far outweighed what many saw as a potential danger. The Valley became one of the hottest new spots for film production, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Dozens of new studios were founded at this time, with over half surviving through the decade. These included [[Bernard Bros.]] and [[Whit Jolley Animation]], which would both later become members of the [[Big Five]].
-What was later understood to be Hollywood's first [[kaiju]] incident occurred in 1923, with [[Mightosaurus]] causing property damage and extensive loss of life. However, several hours of highly usable footage meant the city saw it as a net gain to the point of intentionally trying to bait a second incident, but with little success.
+{{Newspaper|subheading|right|vintage|“Mightosaurus”|Colossal dinosaur hitherto unknown to science tears through downtown L.A.|Illustrated Daily News|October 1923}}What was later understood to be Hollywood's first [[kaiju]] incident occurred in 1923, with [[Mightosaurus]] causing property damage and extensive loss of life. However, several hours of highly usable footage meant the city saw it as a net gain to the point of intentionally trying to bait a second incident, but with little success.
 == The 1930s ==

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 {{Main article|Hollywood in the 1920s}}
 Business was booming during the Roaring 20s, so called due to (in part) the discovery of the [[Gwanji Valley]] in Northern California. The thrill of uncovering a lost world of prehistoric monsters, along with the obvious entertainment value, far outweighed what many saw as a potential danger. The Valley became one of the hottest new spots for film production, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Dozens of new studios were founded at this time, with over half surviving through the decade. These included [[Bernard Bros.]] and [[Whit Jolley Animation]], which would both later become members of the [[Big Five]].
 What was later understood to be Hollywood's first [[kaiju]] incident occurred in 1923, with [[Mightosaurus]] causing property damage and extensive loss of life. However, several hours of highly usable footage meant the city saw it as a net gain to the point of intentionally trying to bait a second incident, but with little success.

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 In the wake of World War 2's end, the country was drunk on a mix of American exceptionalism and paranoia, exemplified by the new [[Governor of California]] [[Jack F. Ralston]] and his political crusades against anything deemed insufficiently American. Although he would not live to see the end of the decade, his firm and hypocritical attitudes would help to shape Hollywood for many years to come. Hundreds of movies produced during the decade that celebrated America's accomplishments, both real and imagined, have since been recognized as vibrant inclusions into the Hollywood canon rather than the desperate results of moral blackmail they actually were.
-The [[Hollywood Space Administration]] was founded in 1951 with [[Thaddeus Finckenstein]] as the inaugural head of the agency. His method of launching things into space "to see what has the gumption to make it back" had far-reaching repercussions that would shape Hollywood for decades to come, and for which he would experience absolutely no consequences. Hollywood experienced two serious bouts of "space fever" in this decade: one that had audiences thrilled by space-themed adventures on the silver screen, and one caused by a mutated virus brought back by the [[Hermes program|Hermes XIV]] in 1956.
+The [[Hollywood Space Administration]] was founded in 1951 with [[Thaddeus Finckenstein]] as the inaugural head of the agency. His method of launching things into space "to see what has the gumption to make it back" had far-reaching repercussions that would shape Hollywood for decades to come, and for which he would experience absolutely no consequences. Hollywood experienced two serious bouts of "space fever" in this decade: one that had audiences thrilled by space-themed adventures on the silver screen, and one caused by a mutated virus brought back by the [[Hermes program|Hermes XIV]] in 1958.
 == The 1960s ==

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 == Pre-Hollywood ==
-The region that would gradually become [[Hollywood]], located in [[California]] on the western coast of the [[United States of America]], was always a site of extreme instability in multiple ways. Numerous historical earthquakes helped to shape and define the locale, with the last [[Major earthquakes in Hollywood|major earthquake]] of the pre-Hollywood era being the Great Quake of 1906. At the time it was claimed to have been caused by Mrs. Mulroney's mule, which according to folklore had kicked the fault line after being startled by an unusually large potato. But the likelihood is that this reasoning is rooted in the severe anti-Irish sentiment of the era, and therefore lacks weight as a valid scientific explanation.
+The region that would gradually become [[Hollywood]], located in [[California]] on the western coast of the [[United States of America]], was always a site of extreme instability in multiple ways. Numerous historical earthquakes helped to shape and define the locale, with the last [[Major earthquakes in Hollywood|major earthquake]] of the pre-Hollywood era being the Great Quake of 1906. At the time it was claimed to have been caused by Mrs. Mulroney's mule, which according to folklore had kicked the fault line after being startled by an unusually large potato. But the likelihood is that this reasoning is rooted in the severe anti-Irish sentiment of the era, and so was no longer considered a valid scientific explanation by the mid-1980s.
 Archeological digs across Hollywood have shown that, despite the present-day reputation that the film industry is the sole source of the area's weirdness, it has been a nexus of strange events and dimensional breaches dating back tens of thousands, possibly even millions of years. However, it wasn't until the arrival of the film industry that Hollywood's cataclysmic properties could be effectively exploited for profit.