ThE HoLlyWoOd SiGn View(open sunrise to sunset) Traditional Cache
HaZzMaTt...: gone for good
ThE HoLlyWoOd SiGn View(open sunrise to sunset)
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Located across from the Famous Hollywood Sign. There is a small Parking area/turn-off. (it is a stop for most sight seeing tour companys)
If you spot the nicely camoed cache please look to the observation area and check for mugglers
Just be Patience and the happy tourist will be back on their merry way in no time
Up a rather steep set of stone stairs and at the top of the hill. Your looking for a med. sized coffee can, cameo to fit in with it's natural surroundings. Please place it back better then you found it so non-cachers won't see.
If there is one landmark that says "Hollywood" to the world - literally! - it is the famous Hollywood Sign,perched high atop Mount Lee, the tallest peak in L.A.
The Sign measures 450 feet long, its mammoth letters are 45 feet high, and it's visible from all parts of Hollywood.
Erected in 1923 as an advertising sign for a real estate development in Beachwood Canyon, the Sign originally read "Hollywoodland." The last four letters were removed in 1945, after Hollywood had become the world's movie capital, and the Sign had already become a well-known landmark.
(In fact, it's been officially declared "Los Angeles Cultural-Historical Monument #111.")
In 1932, during the Great Depression, one despondent young actress, Peg Entwistle, even jumped to her death from the Sign's giant letter "H."
The original sign contained thousands of light bulbs, which were changed daily by a caretaker who lived in a small house behind one of the Sign's giant "L's."
And in the 1998 Disney remake of "Mighty Joe Young," the over sized ape climbs the Hollywood Sign and perches in one of its giant letter "O."s
In early 1999, an anonymous bidder on the Home Shopping Network paid $100,000 for sponsorship rights to the sign.
For $28,000 each, the following people sponsored the letters:
H - Terrence Donnelly, Publisher Hollywood Independent Newspaper
O - Giovanni Mazza, Italian movie producer
L - Les Kelley - Originator of the Kelley Blue Book
L - Gene Autrey - With his pioneer television station KTLA
Y - Hugh Hefner - Creator of Playboy Enterprises
W - Andy Williams - Singer
O - Warner Brothers Records
O - Alice Cooper - In memory of Groucho Marx
D - Dennis Lidtke
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