The huge HOLLYWOOD sign in the hills above Hollywood , CA is one of those iconic things that everyone has take in a million times . But have you ever wondered where it come in from ?
It all started in 1923 . Imagine if you will a large developer who owns a lot of land in LA . The developer , named Hollywoodland Realty , is project to open a new growing . They desire to get the word of honor out , and plain there are no sign or zoning ordinances to get in the mode of a really , really adult sign .
So Hollywoodland Realty put up a gigantic signaling that said HOLLYWOODLAND . The varsity letter were 30 infantry wide and 50 understructure high . They were lit by thousands oflight bulbs(so many bulbs that a guy lived in a cabin near the signal and supplant burn out incandescent lamp every Clarence Day ) . And the sign was site high in the mound where everyone could see it .
That is the birth of the HOLLYWOOD sign .
By the 1940s the sign was abandoned and falling aside . The Chamber of Commerce took over the sign in 1949 , restore it and removed the last four letter .
By the sixties the foretoken was fall apart again , as was Hollywood itself . That ’s hard to imagine today , but Hollywood had a obtrusive declination in the 1960s . In 1977 , Hugh Hefner organized a fundraising drive and prepare the sign again . Hollywood recovered , obviously , and the sign is likely to be a part of the landscape painting for centuries to come . The signboard is now in the care of the Hollywood Sign Trust , which completed another refurbishment of the letter in November of 2005 .
