Tag: Hollywood Sign
Hollywoodland celebrates 75 years of park land gift
Seventy-five years ago the Sherman Company gifted 444 acres of open-space land in northern Beachwood Canyon to the City of Los Angeles. This tract of parkland includes the historic Hollywood Sign, which was created to advertise the lots in Tract 6450 for Hollywoodland, Southern California’s first planned hillside residential community. Residents held a celebration honoring […]
Reporter gets first-hand look at Hollywood sign’s makeover
Who knew that among all his other jobs, LA City Councilman Tom LaBonge would become a spokesperson for Hollywood’s biggest star while she got a facelift? The operation was huge, in every sense of the word. To get close to this star meant meeting LaBonge way up in the hills. From there he took us […]