Hollywood Sign
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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. Spelling out the word "Hollywood" in 50-foot-tall (15.2 m) white uppercase letters and 450 feet long, it was originally erected in 1923 as a temporary advertisement for a local real estate development, but due to increasing recognition the sign was left up, and replaced in 1978 with a more durable all-steel 45-foot-tall (13.7 m) structure.
The Hollywood Sign in 2015
The original sign, reading "Hollywoodland".
In the 1970s, the sign reached its most dilapidated state. This image was taken shortly before the sign's 1978 restoration.
Once all wood, the sign was rebuilt in metal letters supported by a structural steel framework
Hollywood, Los Angeles
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Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood.
The Hollywood Sign in front of Hollywood Hills in January 2019
Glen-Holly Hotel, Hollywood's first hotel, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street, was built in the 1890s.
H. J. Whitley (on left wearing a bowler hat) and the Hollywood Hotel (on left) at the corner of Highland Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard
Villa Las Colinas, a historic Mission Revival estate built by Charles E. Toberman in 1922