And it needed to be big. The sign’s true origin is lost to history, but one popular tale ties it to L.A.'s then (and still) burgeoning car culture. Hollywoodland funder and newspaper publisher ...

The Hollywood sign (originally advertising and spelling out HOLLYWOODLAND) was built above the Hollywood ... It was also the most expensive film in the studio's history, at a budget of about $500,000.

Ironically, the sign wasn't put up by the city or by Hollywood executives but, instead, by a real estate company advertising its new development. Originally, it read "Hollywoodland." Despite becoming ...

When Tod Swormstedt began collecting signs in 1999, it was just him and a dream. The American Sign Museum opened in 2005 and ...

Outside the gallery, a large Hollywoodland sign mural, red carpet and giant-sized ... should be engrossing for both tourists and Hollywood history buffs. Titled "Los Angeles: From Film Frontier ...

No location within DCA has been specified, but it’s possible the land will go into the underutilized Hollywoodland area of ...

September 19, 2024 • Climate change, political unrest, random violence - Western society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls, "a thin layer of ice on top of an ocean of ...

His American art collection now resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, which opened as the Freer Gallery ...

The history of book bans—and their changing targets—in the U.S. The history of book bans—and their changing targets—in the U.S. How Ouija became the most feared spirit board in history How ...

September 13 falls on Friday this year. Even though you may think Friday the 13th is cursed, some great things have happened ...

The Smithsonian Institution was established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...