West Hollywood is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Incorporated in 1984, it is house to the Sunset Strip. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, its population was 35,757. It is considered one of the most prominent cheerful villages in the United States.

Most historical writings more or less West Hollywood begin in the late-18th century behind European colonization next the Portuguese fortune-hunter João Rodrigues Cabrilho arrived offshore and claimed the already inhabited region for Spain. Around 5,000 of the native inhabitants from the Tongva Indian tribe canoed out to greet the ship. The Tongva tribe was a nation of hunter-gatherers known for their worship for dance and courage. By 1771, these indigenous people had been intensely ravaged by the diseases brought in by the Europeans from across wide oceans. The Spanish mission system untouched the tribal say to “Gabrielinos”, in suggestion to the Mission de San Gabriel. Early in 1770 Gaspar de Portola’s Mexican expeditionary force stopped just south of the Santa Monica Mountains close what would become West Hollywood to fascination pitch (brea in Spanish) from tar pits to waterproof their belongings and to tell Mass. The Gabrielinos are believed to have burned the arena for fuel.

By 1780, what became the “Sunset Strip” was the major connecting road for El Pueblo de Los Angeles, and whatever ranches westward to the Pacific Ocean. This house passed through the hands of various owners during the next one hundred years, and it was called names such as “La Brea” and “Plummer” that are listed in historical records. Most of this Place was ration of the Rancho La Brea, and eventually it came to be owned by the Henry Hancock family.

During the unqualified decade years of the nineteenth century, the first large estate reconstruction of the town of “Sherman” significantly accelerated the proceed of the region. In what would sophisticated become West Hollywood—the town of “Sherman”—was usual by Moses Sherman and his followers of the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad, an interurban railroad extraction which sophisticated became ration of the Pacific Electric Railway system. Sherman became the location of the railroad’s main shops, railroad yards, and “car barns”. Many working-class employees of the railroad decided in this town. It was during this times that the city began to earn its reputation as a loosely regulated, liquor-friendly (during Prohibition) place for eccentric people wary of dealing out interference. Despite several annexation attempts, the town elected not to become portion of the City of Los Angeles. In a controversial decision, in 1925 Sherman adopted “West Hollywood”, “…a moniker pioneered earlier in the decade by the West Hollywood Realty Board” as its informal name, though it remained under the governance of Los Angeles County.