Tag: Hollywoodland
Academy Museum pays homage to city’s filmmaker founders
Learn about the early days of filmmaking in Los Angeles at the new exhibit, “Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital,” opening Sun., May 19, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. It is the museum’s first permanent exhibition since it opened in 2021. Told in English and Spanish, the origin story […]
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 […]
