"The Hidden History of the Hollywood Sign" Topic
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Tango01  | 29 Jun 2025 5:56 p.m. PST |
"Since its installation on a hill overlooking Los Angeles in 1923, the Hollywood sign has served as a billboard for a real estate development, a backdrop for countless films and television shows, and a decaying reminder of silver screen excess. Made up of white block letters spelling out "Hollywood" (originally "Hollywoodland"), the sign represents a California neighborhood but isn't actually located there. Instead, it sits on nearby Mount Lee in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Recently refurbished to mark its 100th anniversary, the sign has a far more checkered history than its clean, newly repainted letters might suggest. It was never meant to be a tourist destination. Instead, it started out as an advertisement for an upscale housing development called Hollywoodland. In 1932, it was the site of a suicide; in the 1960s, it fell into disrepair, becoming "a glaring badge of dishonor—rusted, dilapidated, soon to literally crumble under its own weight," according to the nonprofit Hollywood Sign Trust…"
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