Hollywood Sign Turns 100, A Look Back At The L.A. Landmark

The world-famous Hollywood Signal has formally stood tall for a century … so check out how the Los Angeles landmark has aged over the previous 100 years!

The SoCal icon first lit up the Hollywood Hills on December 8, 1923, initially displaying the phrase “Hollywoodland” … and constructed by L.A. Instances writer Harry Chandler for $21k as a larger-than-life billboard for his actual property growth firm.

The unique letters have been 30 toes huge and 43 toes tall, with the metallic squares held collectively by a body of pipes, scaffolding, wires, and even phone poles.

Since then, the Hollywood Signal has etched its means into showbiz lore … and it even adopted the Hollywood A-lister mannequin by getting a couple of facelifts as time handed!

It is also been topic to some non permanent makeovers — together with the notorious “Hollyweed” look in 2017 or the “Rams Home” switch-up by the town final yr after the soccer crew’s Tremendous Bowl victory — though that look did not win of us over.