From "Nuestro Pueblo - Los Angeles, City of Romance" Copyright 1940, by Charles H. Owens and Joseph F. Seewerker COUNTRY CHURCH OF HOLLYWOOD Hollywood the sophisticated, factory of super-spectacles, might seem the last place in America for an old-time Tennessee circuit rider. Josiah Hopkins and Sarah, his wife, proved that a country church merely added another note to the cosmopolitan chorus of the film city - and a note most popular. For more than thirty years the Hopkinses carried religion to the crossroads hamlets of Tennessee. Then Hopkins ‘got the call’ to Hollywood. The old circuit rider built the Country Church of Hollywood in 1933, at 1750 Argyle Avenue. One concession to modernity he did make. He decided to use the radio to carry his ‘old-time religion’ to a world busier and more complicated than his Tennessee hills. The ‘Goose Creek’ services became popular instantly. Listeners tuned in faithfully to the simple broadcasts which featured life in villages of the horse-and-buggy age. National recognition was not long in coming. Hopkins died in 1937, but his widow continues the programs with the aid of ministers from various churches. Old hymns are sung, the services are interdenominational, and the church is supported entirely by free-will offerings. And simplicity is being very well received in the home of sophistication.