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Hollywood, Florida has always been easy to underestimate from a distance. People hear the name and think first of the beach, maybe a broad strip of sand and a few high-rise condos catching the light. Spend time here, though, and the city starts to reveal a more layered character. Hollywood is part old Florida, part postwar suburb, part coastal resort town, and part working city that has had to adapt to repeated waves of growth, tourism, storms, and redevelopment. That mix g