{"id":57370,"date":"2025-11-23T05:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/57370\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:14:07","slug":"hollywood-celebrates-100th-anniversary-with-downtown-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/57370\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood celebrates 100th anniversary with downtown festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood celebrates 100th anniversary with downtown festival <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 Thousands gathered at ArtsPark at Young Circle on Saturday as Hollywood marked its 100th anniversary with a community celebration highlighting the city\u2019s history and growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Founded in 1925 by Joseph Young, Hollywood has grown to more than 150,000 residents. The centennial event featured vintage cars, old fire trucks and a presentation showcasing what the city once looked like, along with food trucks, vendors and live appearances from city leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m happy to be here tonight and I\u2019m just celebrating 100 years of Hollywood,\u201d said Alnisa, a local vendor. \u201cTonight is super special\u2026 I\u2019m just so grateful to be a part of this community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Residents said the celebration reflected the city\u2019s spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve wanted to live here forever,\u201d said Tracey Bivelo. \u201cOur beach is beautiful. The people are great,\u201d another attendee said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Families also enjoyed winter-themed attractions \u2014 including slides covered in faux snow \u2014 and a Christmas tree lighting that signaled the start of the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With diverse crowds and hometown pride on full display, many said the centennial proved one thing: Hollywood still feels like home.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Byron Tollefson\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b58c08f2-f400-4245-95df-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Byron Tollefson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Byron Tollefson joined Local 10 News as a reporter in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM Hollywood celebrates 100th anniversary with downtown festival HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 Thousands gathered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-57370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}