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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
ahhhh....yes, the HOLLYWOOD sign.
above: It originally spelled out HOLLYWOODLAND for a real estate
venture around 1929
Hollywood sepia.
The men doing NONE of the work, are foolishly waving their hats.
Hollywoodland noir, late 1920s
This is me, hanging upside-down from the letter H around 1987.
This is before all the fences and infra-red cameras. |
Early classic,
"Hollywoodland", Noirish L.A. post #68 from 2009 that most people haven't seen. Ethereal, you were quite the risk taker in your youth. Peg Entwistle wasn't as lucky. The classic sign prank was when CalTech transformed the sign to spell "CalTech" before a Bowl Game. But even that was eclipsed by their hijacking of the Washington Huskys card squad in the Rose Bowl in 1960 (?).The Huskys card squad spelled out "CalTech" in the nationally televised half time show. Everybody except the Huskys got a kick out of that. Maybe that was the same year CalTech hijacked the Hollywood sign?
Folks, latecomers, the early years of this blog are full of gems. You also get to meet memorable early posters who are long vanished. I go through about ten pages a day. Should catch up to where I started in a year or two. This is the best blog on skyscraperpage, and the number of visits proves it, plus the 13 years of existance. May it continue. Noirish treasures forever.