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

The world-famous Hollywood Sign 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 authentic letters have been 30 ft huge and 43 ft tall, with the metallic squares held collectively by a body of pipes, scaffolding, wires, and even phone poles.

Since then, the Hollywood Sign has etched its method 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 short-term makeovers — together with the notorious “Hollyweed” look in 2017 or the “Rams House” switch-up by the town final yr after the soccer workforce’s Tremendous Bowl victory — though that look did not win people over.