A photo like this doesn’t seem particularly interesting—a steam shovel, a couple of workers, and some guy on a horse—until you learn that they’re from the Crescent Sign Company and are building the Hollywoodland sign in 1923. As we can see, there is nothing around, so I’m curious about that almost-horizontal line cut into the hill behind them. Did they have to build a road in order to construct the sign? Otherwise, that poor horse would’ve had a tough time getting up such a steep slope.
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I wonder when the Land part of Hollywoodland disappeared. Lou
Lou – the “LAND” part came down in 1949.
How would you like to hike up there? This is what you’d see looking down –
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Jean
That is probably a fire road. The hills are crisscrossed with them
Ah, yes Suzi, you’re probably right. I hadn’t thought of that.