They once grew peas and chiles in Hollywood. There were lemon trees. Greg Williams says some of Hollywood's streets salute that produce. "Romaine was because of romaine lettuce, because it was all horticulture. So a lot of horticulture names."

Williams is author of "The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History." He says the original roads in Hollywood were really following the farm and ranch tracks. And the name of the streets often referred to the owner of the ranch.

"So the reason we have Gower, it was on the edge of John Gower's wheat farm. He was an Englishman who came here by way of Hawaii, and back in like 1885 he started growing wheat all along that whole section. And that's why it's called Gower. It's named after him."

They don't grow much wheat anymore. But there's still plenty of bread being made in Hollywood.

(Airdate for this story: 8/5/07)