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The Hollywood Sign is an American landmark and cultural icon overlooking Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Originally the Hollywoodland Sign, it is situated on Mount Lee, in the Beachwood Canyon area of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Jul 13, 2023 · A century after its original installation, the Hollywood sign has suffered through bad press, aging pains and multiple facelifts—an intriguing parallel to some of the stars living in the city...
Oct 16, 2023 · The canyon has had its share of strange, and often dark, Hollywood history including religious cults, suicides, and a love triangle murder that involved popular and prolific Hollywood actor PAUL KELLY. Join us as we explore the happenings that occurred “from beneath the Hollywood sign.”
Built by Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler as an epic $21,000 billboard for his upscale Hollywoodland real estate development, the Sign soon took on the role of giant marquee for a city that was constantly announcing its own gala premiere.
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- The Hollywood sign is only slightly younger than the district itself. Harvey and Daeida Wilcox founded Hollywood in 1887 as a community for likeminded followers of the temperance movement.
- The sign was created as a real-estate advertisement. By 1923 Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler had decided to invest in an upscale real-estate development called Hollywoodland, which capitalized on the growing recognition of Hollywood as a movie-industry mecca.
- A struggling actress took her life there. Although the Hollywood sign symbolizes glamour and stardom, it can also represent broken dreams. In spring 1932 stage actress Peg Entwistle moved from New York City to Los Angeles to try her luck with movies.
- Four letters on the sign were eventually removed. Regular maintenance on the sign stopped when the Hollywoodland real-estate development went under due to the Great Depression.
Under the Hollywood Sign: Directed by Hope Anderson. Part interpretive history, part nature documentary, part biography, "Under the Hollywood Sign" combines archival pictures, new HD footage and interviews to tell the story of Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles.
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Dec 14, 2022 · Sikich had unexpectedly captured a photo of a mountain lion on a camera trap right across from the Hollywood sign in Griffith Park, an 6.5-square-mile urban preserve in Los Angeles.
