The world-famous Hollywood Sign has formally stood tall for a century … so check out how the Los Angeles landmark has aged over the previous 100 years!
The SoCal icon first lit up the Hollywood Hills on December 8, 1923, initially displaying the phrase “Hollywoodland” … and constructed by L.A. Times writer Harry Chandler for $21k as a larger-than-life billboard for his actual property improvement firm.
The authentic letters have been 30 toes huge and 43 toes tall, with the metallic squares held collectively by a body of pipes, scaffolding, wires, and even phone poles.
Since then, the Hollywood Sign has etched its means into showbiz lore … and it even adopted the Hollywood A-lister mannequin by getting a couple of facelifts as time handed!
It’s additionally been topic to some non permanent makeovers — together with the notorious “Hollyweed” look in 2017 or the “Rams House” switch-up by the town final 12 months after the soccer workforce’s Super Bowl victory — though that look did not win of us over.
Regardless, it has been a reasonably candy 100 years for the enduring signal — this is to 100 extra!