Thanks to the reopening of a key hiking trail, a lot more people will now get to take pictures of the famous Hollywood sign. It wasn’t always like this. Over the years, the iconic word-on-a-hilltop has been altered by everyone from pot heads to protestors to say things other than “Hollywood.” Some of them are pretty funny.
The Los Angeles Timesjust published a little round upof all the edits to the Hollywood sign in it’s 92-year-long existence. One of them is obviously Hollyweed. The others run the gamut from destruction from storm damage (1949) to destruction from sports fans (1983). Like all good American signs, the sign was even used as paid advertising (1987) and political campaigning (1992). In fact, the sign was originally an advertisement for a real estate development called Hollywoodland (1923).
Without further ado, here’s the list of all 15 things the Hollywood sign has said besides “Hollywood”—although the switch from Hollywoodland to Hollywood is included for continuity’s sake. Click through for photos and more details:
1923: Hollywoodland
1949: Hollywood
1976: Hollyweed
1983: Go Navy
1985: Raffeysod
1987: Cal Tech
1987: Holywood
1987: Fox
1990: Oil War
1992: Perotwood
1993: Go UCLA
1993: Jollygood
2010: Sollywood
2010: Sallywood
2010: Save the Pood
2010: Save the Peak
The historic sign is worth a visit, even though it now says “Hollywood” like it’s supposed to. Good luck finding it, though. People just won’t stop trying to erase the Hollywood sign from Google Maps. [LAT]
