Beverly Hills is probably the most famous city name other than Los Angeles in the world, and that was before the popular original version of the TV show Beverly Hills 90210 and it’s present follow up show. This is the playground of the rich and famous, as well as a top residential community. Some of the largest homes in the nation are here, including Aaron Spelling’s mega mansion, and is the most expensive housing market in the country.

Beverly Hills is actually named for a city in Massachusetts. In 1906, the Percy H. Clark Co., managers of the land, opened it up for public housing. Their intention was to allow purchasers of property to build whatever types of houses they wanted to, as long as they could afford the price of the land. One of the first residences, oddly enough, was the Beverly Hills Hotel, now a historic landmark of its own while still catering to thousands of visitors each year. The first celebrities to invade the territory were Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, soon followed by Will Rogers. Harold Lloyd and John Barrymore quickly followed, establishing the celebrity presence for good.

Beverly Hills has some famous landmarks, including the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Gardens, the Electric Fountain, and its City Hall building has been used in many movies and TV shows. Rodeo Drive is one of the most famous streets in the world, with lots of restaurants and exclusive shops where the rich and famous love to be. There are also many art galleries and small theaters in the area, including the Paley Center for Media, and tour buses to take you all over the city.

Beverly Hills is landlocked, which means it’s not close to the beach like Malibu, but its residents aren’t that far from the beach and they like it just fine. It’s a safe city for the rich and famous to live in, as they pay well for the police department to protect them. Yet, in a lot of ways, it’s like most other communities. The rich sometimes have money problems themselves, so they have pawn shops; they just don’t call them that. There are no factories in town or billboards. There’s also no hospital or cemetery in town, which is strange, but they like it that way.

Soap operas got their start as programs on the radio. They were sponsored by soap manufacturers, soap manufacturers who knew that is was in large women who purchased their products. These radio programs were directed at women and were aired on the radio during the day when most women were cleaning and cooking at home.They were full of love, romance, and intrigue. They had a continuing story line and would usually end a program each day in a cliff hanging situation so that a listener would be sure to tune in the next day. Hopefully they would also be reminded that were in need of a new box of detergent or soap of some kind.

Soap operas today follow the same pattern as when they first started years ago. They still have cliff hangers, especially on Friday’s episodes. They still have a more faithful than ever audience, only they watch on television instead of listening on the radio.The one thing that can separate daytime soaps from other shows that might share the term soap, like Dallas, Knots Landing, or today’s biggest prime time hit, Desperate Housewives, is that daytime soaps never have re runs. Everyday is a brand new episode. This could be one reason that they have endured as a program type for so many years. Many people who watch them are so enthralled by them that they had rather miss dinner than miss their best soap opera.

It is much easier for people who watch these almost addictive programs to keep current with what is going on even if they miss a show or two. The Soap Opera network which can be seen on cable and satellite television is a non stop 24 hours a day broadcast station of soap operas. So if a viewer misses the show they love the most during the day, they have the opportunity to catch the missed episode on the Soap channel later. This is great for those faithful fans that have found their selves having to work a day job who thought they had to give up following the soap opera that they have probably been watching for years.