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An unlikely hollywood export
Topic Started: Mar 18 2008, 04:57 PM (116 Views)
Zybch
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The hollywood sign is undoubtedly one of the most well-known landmarks on earth and the fact that it exists, proudly sitting on hollywood hills advertising the world’s movie industry, has never seemed strange to most people. what is strange (to me at least) is the fact that the 50ft high sign was originally an advert of a different kind in a couple of ways. check out the photo above. up until 1949 the sign had an extra 4 letters and was created as an enormous marketing tool to help sell a housing development of the same name which sat in the hills above los angeles. eventually in 1949, after the properties were sold and the sign was redundant, control was assumed by the hollywood chamber of commerce who agreed to maintain the sign without the ‘l-a-n-d’ attached and minus the 4,000 power-hungry flashing lightbulbs.

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genesound
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There is a community here in the area called Hollywoodland. It's kind of on the other side of that hill where the sign was. This is a well known story here, and prints of that pic and others of the original sign have been plentiful for the 37 years I've lived around here. . . it seems that only millions of ppl know this. :lol:
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Zybch
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I'd heard of it, but not seen pics till I can across this story.
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genesound
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There was a huge factoid that was a big public ordeal a couple of decades ago when the sign was rebuilt again. I was in the biz then too ;)

I worked on things like the ceremonies for putting stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame back then. I remember being the designer/mix engineer at the ceremonies for Peter Frampton and Fleetwood Mack. There were others less significant. I also helped build a room in the studio where Fleetwood Mack made most of their money. Later I took off and did a bunch of r'n'r tours as an engineer for little bands like Bonnie Raitt's Keyhole. :ph43r:
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J..M
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What I do know is that its made of corrugated iron & the guys that paint it, for some fuckin' unknown reason tried to use rollers .........

Brushes ya cunts........ On sticks too B)

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J..M
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So where's the huge sign that says .............. "LAND" .......... Somone has to have it somewhere.......... :P
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If it was stuffed up your ass you'd know where it was at.
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genesound
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Johnny Fist
Mar 18 2008, 07:53 PM
If it was stuffed up your ass you'd know where it was at.

Are you sure?
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