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1. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › the-hiddenThe Hidden History of the Hollywood Sign | Smithsonian

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   Jul 13, 2023 · History Correspondent. Since its installation on a hill overlooking Los Angeles in 1923, the Hollywood sign has served as a billboard for a real estate development, a backdrop for countless films ...

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3. lamag.com › los-angeles-100-years-ago-1923Los Angeles in 1923: A Budding City Sees Turbulent Growth - LAmag

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   Nov 27, 2023 · A hundred years ago, a budding city was experiencing a time of turbulent growth. The decade of the 1920s transformed Los Angeles. What had been a winter resort for the wealthy and a fresh-air ...

4. www.lacityhistory.org › lachs-photo-databaseLACHS Photo Database — Los Angeles City Historical Society

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   LACHS Photo Database. The Los Angeles City Historical Society has created a new website that offers selected historical photographs from the Los Angeles City Archives. Viewers can search by community name, such as Chinatown, Venice, Westwood, or Downtown Los Angeles. One can also search by subject, such as bridges, streets, dates, and/or other ...

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Hollywood_SignHollywood Sign - Wikipedia

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   Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. Designated. February 7, 1973. Reference no. 111. The Hollywood Sign is an American landmark and cultural icon overlooking Hollywood, Los Angeles. Originally the Hollywoodland Sign, it is situated on Mount Lee, above Beachwood Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains.

6. www.oldmapsonline.org › en › websMap of Territory Annexed to the City of Los Angeles

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   Map of Los Angeles County (Southern Portion) and Western Portion of Orange Count. 1913. Barclay Maps. 1:78k. Map of Territory Annexed to the City of Los Angeles, California. 1926. Shaw, John C.; Merget, R. L. 1:63k. Map of Los Angeles City Showing Original City and Subsequent Annexations. 1935. 1:120k. Palos Verdes Estates : Los Angeles County ...

7. time.com › 3947945See How the Hollywood Sign Has Changed Over Time

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   Jul 13, 2015 · The 50-foot high and 400-foot long sign was replaced by donations from nine public donors totaling $250,000. George Brich—AP Photo. Write to Lily Rothman at lily.rothman@time.com. When the ...

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   Where can I find historical photos from the Los Angeles City Archives?

   • The Los Angeles City Historical Society has created a new website that offers selected historical photographs from the Los Angeles City Archives. Viewers can search by community name, such as Chinatown, Venice, Westwood, or Downtown Los Angeles. One can also search by subject, such as bridges, streets, dates, and/or other specific topics.

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   What was Los Angeles like in 1923?

   • It was a city of big ambitions: a towering new city hall, the Olympic Games at the new Memorial Coliseum, grand hotels like the Biltmore (in 1923 the largest hotel west of Chicago), highways for the 700,000 cars to be registered in Los Angeles County by 1929, and always more suburban homes for the million residents Los Angeles would have by 1925.

   What Los Angeles Was Like in 1923 - Los Angeles Magazine

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   Was 1923 a year for real stars in Los Angeles?

   • It’s an ambiguous icon of Los Angeles: a beloved fake that’s locked behind gates, inaccessible, appreciated only from afar. Still, 1923 was also a year for actual stars in Los Angeles. From Mount Wilson above Pasadena, astronomer Edwin Hubble saw more of them than the plastic variety in Hollywood.

   What Los Angeles Was Like in 1923 - Los Angeles Magazine

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   Is the Rose Hills sign the same as the Hollywood Sign?

   • Unlike the Hollywood sign, the Rose Hills sign is illuminated every evening. Mosgiel, a satellite suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin, erected an imitation of the Hollywood sign – reading MOSGIEL – in 1987.

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9. www.hollywoodsign.org › history-timelineKey Events in the History of the Hollywood Sign | A Timeline

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   Built by Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler as a $21,000 billboard for his upscale Hollywoodland real estate development, the Sign soon took on the role of giant marquee for a city that was constantly announcing its own gala premiere. By the end of 1923, the Sign was fully erected, a high-profile beacon for the fast-growing metropolis.