HOLLYWOOD sign

[tcar]

Saw a show on Howard Hughes on maybe the History Channel a few days ago.

Was a pic of him and on the hill behind him was the
HOLLYWOOD sign, but I thought it had something like 'HILLS' maybe after Hollywood, in the same big letters.

Anyone know?

[Mulhollanddose]

Hollywoodland...Real estate development project, adopted as city name.

[Victor]

I read about that not long ago - it used be an advert for a new building estate or something. They removed the last word and only left what you see now. Which is only a replica. The real one sat in a shed for decades and (according to the article) is being sold letter by letter to rich folk with not alot else on their minds.....

[Victor]

Mull beat me to it.

[scottmandue]

There is no HOLLYWOOD sign... it's a mass halucination!

[Emission]

I just got e-mail notification that I subscribed to this informative thread?

Not.

Ha ha.. yes, Hollywoodland.

[techweenie]

...made infamous by a would-be starlet who jumped to her death from the 13th letter back in the 20s/30s.

Hollywoodland was behind the "Beechwood gates" and the first houses were all different 'fantasy' styles. IIRC, the development went bust,

[slodave]

Here's one to read.

The original Hollywood sign sold for $450,400 in an auction on eBay, its owner said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/07/entertainment/main1103557.shtml

Dave

[tcar]

Originally posted by techweenie
...made infamous by a would-be starlet who jumped to her death from the 13th letter back in the 20s/30s.

Lept from the second 'D'!