The Hollywood Sign is one of the most photographed landmarks in the world. It’s been blown up in movies, kissed by drones, ...

But the erection of the famed Hollywood sign in 1923 marked the start of another phase, one still with us today. During that decade, ... “Hollywoodland,” the sign read.

Many Hollywood history buffs know that the Hollywood sign, erected in December 1923, originally read "HOLLYWOODLAND," an ...

Thus the Hollywoodland Sign, an advertisement for a real-estate development, became the Hollywood Sign, an advertisement for a business and tourist district of Los Angeles.

Les Tremayne, of CBS Radio’s First Nighter program, and wife Eileen Palmer, with their bicycles in the Hollywood Hills, with the Hollywoodland sign in the background. HOLLYWOOD SIGN, 1940.

Hollywoodland began as a 1920s real-estate development, famously advertised with an enormous, lit-up HOLLYWOODLAND sign in the hills above it. (In 1949, “Land” was dropped from the sign ...

The Hollywood sign is getting a makeover befitting its status as a Tinseltown icon.After a pressure-wash and some rust removal, workers this week began using 250 gallons of primer and white paint ...

The Hollywood sign is getting a makeover befitting its status as a Tinseltown icon.After a pressure-wash and some rust removal, workers this week began using 250 gallons of primer and white paint ...

The Hollywood sign is getting a makeover befitting its status as a Tinseltown icon.After a pressure-wash and some rust removal, workers this week began using 250 gallons of primer and white paint ...