It's the street that leads you to the Hollywood Bowl: Highland. But before the Bowl, before the street, there were two neighbor ladies, Mary Moll and a Mrs. Highland Price. They were good friends, but then in 1901, Highland Price passed away.

Greg Williams says, "She was the first person buried in the Hollywood cemetery."

Williams is the author of "The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History." About the time of Price's death, city planners were trying to build a road that would run through Mary Moll's property. Williams says Moll agreed to the road on one condition: she wanted to name it. The city agreed, and that's why we have Highland Avenue.

"I think she did that in honor of her friend that lived down the street," Williams says.

Mary Moll's strawberry farm is long gone. But something sweeter grew up across the street: the new home of the Oscars, the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland.

(Airdate for this story: 10/6/07)