14 Shocking Hollywood Sign Facts

you think you know about the Hollywood. Sign I'm Daniel I'm Katie and this is a. miniature horse and we're from Fort. Wayne Indiana let's talk about. [Music]. [Applause]. that good mythical morning today's. episode is brought to you by Blue. microphones maker of the mouse. microphone that we put our mouths up to. on a regular basis as in every single. day that you watch the show committ.

morning thanks for joining us today the. Hollywood sign oh a global symbol of. moving pictures and. entertainment the symbol the Bastion of. hopes attached to stardom and Shattered. Dreams and Shattered Dreams as well um. we live in Los Angeles we live in sight. of this sign and we see this sign on a. regular basis and we have heard tell. that there is a hike that you can hike.

up to it and see it yes so we were. intrigued by this and separately we have. chosen to do this well because if. something were to happen well you know. at least to be one of us to carry on we. don't do anything dangerous together. because if both of us are eliminated it. would be very difficult to find. replacements for both of us at the same. time so in other words I took my wife on. a hike to the Hollywood side what does. that say about my relationship with my. wife Christie well if we're going to go. I want to go with her that's exactly. what exctly together so we went we went.

about a month ago and we hiked to the. Hollywood sign and um I returned with. reports of Awesomeness and I guess I. guess that uh I should get a cut of the. admission of you going admission you. didn't pay no no I what you do jump I. went the back way oh no you don't have. to there is no admission it's free and I. went so you went my good friend Mike he. was in town from North Carolina spending. a couple of uh nights with us at our. house and we decided to do the manly.

thing that is to hike and go to the. Hollywood sign it's it's cool to be able. to drive around the city and see this. thing which is such a such an iconic. sign but it's cooler to then see it. later and say I've been up to it but I. was disappointed I'm going to tell you. why I was disappointed because I thought. I could go up there and like climb on it. and like touch it monkey bar but you get. up there and okay not only is it just. fenced off with this crazy fence but. there are motion detectors and cameras.

all around this thing there's like a. tree of. 360° cameras and motion detectors. pointing every single way and then. there's cameras and motion detectors on. the letters because you actually hike up. behind it and you look down from the top. of the the summit of the mountain down. onto the letters and you can see you're. probably 50 ft from at that point and I. actually was talking to Mike the friend. I was hiking with he says yes I was. watching this thing on the B listening. to this thing on the BBC about this guy. who climbed the fence and went up to it. and when he got close to it there was.

somebody watching the cameras and said. sir please step away from the sign sir. please step away from the sign and it. was a guy specifically talking to him it. wasn't like a recording it was somebody. in a tower somewhere was it a was it. like God or no it was he didn't use his. name I don't think God cares who touches. the Hollywood sign oh I think it was a. person who works for the people who are. in charge of the Hollywood Sign well. stay tuned because we will reveal what. all the hubub is about as to why there's. so much security but let's put a pin in.

that I but I almost died I I you know I. almost die a lot but I say about you I. almost died on the way down because we. took a shortcut down this path that you. probably shouldn't have gone down if you. called 911 I'm sorry but I don't want to. hear the story I'm tired of I didn't. call Family calling 911 I was shimming. down this mountain and then I you went. off the path I went off the path I saw. that take a shortcut when you go to you. know you want of the you're creating. erosion you know if everyone was like. you the sign wouldn't be there in six. months because it would erode down the.

side of Mount Le it looked like fun I. just decided to go down it and Mike came. it looked like fun I care nothing about. my the ramifications of my ero erosive. actions and Mike came down behind me and. at one point he's like 15 feet above me. I hear him this is a steep place cuz I. did see it yeah I had to I was sliding. down it you could not stand at one point. I hear him say uh watch out there's a. rock coming I'm like okay I'll turn. around and Dodge this Little Rock that's. coming right I turn around there is a.

rock this big three times the size of my. head rolling and picking up steam and. coming right at my shoulders which are. facing. uphill just in time I move out of the. way I get my head and my major organs. out of the way of the rock CU this rock. would have seriously hurt me but then I. realized that my very long legs are. still in the path of the Rock and at the. very last second I scissor kick I go. like this and The Rock bounces and goes. over one leg and under the other and. keeps going how did you know it wasn't.

going to hit the lower leg I couldn't. get I couldn't move both legs because I. would have fell fallen down the whole. Mountain I had to keep one point of. contact and I just went and it went. right under my leg so at that point you. hear the security guy come over the. megaphone and he. says almost got you no I don't think. that was security I think it was just. Mike dislodging a rock I think it might. have been them but for taking this um. taking the shortcut I thought it would. be fun to amass some Hollywood Sign. trivia.

and then ask you true or false questions. and see how much you know hopefully you. didn't read any signs up there but. there's not really much signage you. might well there's one really big sign. that says Hollywood oh that you read. that one yeah it's really big I mean. like other ones they have trivia oh. didn't read any of this okay you guys. can play along at home see if you can. learn something about the Hollywood Sign. true or false right the sign was. originally built in 1923 as a temporary. structure to promote a Housing. Development true I know that I saw it in.

a book what you read a book I no I was. at the library one time I was no I was. in the bookstore at the some Museum so. you cheated when I told you I was doing. this you read you checked out a book at. the library years ago that's true okay. it is true um the subdivision I'll call. it it was it was nicer homes but the. subdivision was called Hollywood land. and so the sign actually said originally. Hollywood land the original sign was. covered in working light bulbs true or. false.

FSE true it had 4,20 watt light bulbs. all over each letter at night the sign. blinked into the Hollywood night first. Holly then wood and finally land really. punctuated by a giant Holly wood land. now there are no lights on it now though. it's you don't see it at night it goes. away when the Sun goes away there's not. there's not even a spotlight on it. there's no uplighting on it no nothing. at all in 1923 aspiring actress Lois. Griffin committed suicide by jumping.

from the 50ft tall. h no she jumped from the. L you're correct but for the wrong. reason her name was peg in whistle not. the wife on Family. Guy Lois Griffin that was a little a. little change that I made Oh by 1978 the. sign was in such despair it read. hollywod hollywod hollywod it was half. the first o was gone the top I know.

what's gone I can tell I can picture it. in my mind. true see I tried to I shouldn't have. tried to sell it because it is true yep. hwad to fund repairs in 1978 Walt Disney. hosted a fundraiser where individual. sign letters were ceremonially auctioned. off at $27,700 per. letter and then like taken from the. mountain no that money was used to. rebuild the the Hollywood sign oh I was. like I got the oh bar bro it's really.

big but we can put it in the. yard true or false I paid. 27,700 true no it's false Hugh Hefner. not Walt Disney held the fundraiser but. that is how they raised money rock. singer Alice Cooper funded the. rebuilding of the first. o false true rock singer Azie Osborne. funded the rebuilding of the. eye is this another one yeah true. there's not even an eye.

this I got. himh yeah there is Les Les Kelly. originator of the Kelly Blue Book holoid. funded the I I mean funded the L there. is no I no I want to believe there's an. and hey there's no I in I you no there's. not in January of 76 to celebrate. California's decriminalization of. marijuana the sign was altered to read. hollyweed say started that one over I. want true or false to honor what what.

the decriminalization of marijuana the. sign was altered to read hollyweed. legally or illegally decriminalization. of marijuana in California but was was. this sanctioned or was this illegal. because it would never have been. sanctioned it it was illegally altered. the sign for the legalization the. decriminalization of marijuana false no. true Holly weed actually did happen. Danny fine good a student at Cal State. Northridge pulled the stunt as a class. project and received an a during the 87.

Iran Contra hearings it was altered by. the same guy to read ollywood like. Oliver North I was going to change it to. Dollywood that's what I would have done. it hasn't been done false because it. would have confused true or false false. true in an elaborate 1995 wedding. proposal Janes Kaminsky asked Holly. Hunter the actress to marry him by. altering the sign to say Holly wmm Holly. will you marry me she said.

yes she also had some insight to know. that that was for her and it wasn't just. hollyw he took her to it and said oh I. did this yeah what do you think it means. true or false Holly Will you murder me. no Holly Will You Marry Me true false. but they but they did get married. they're now divorced uh just a few more. in 2001 gorilla ad campaign for the. grocery store chain the sign was altered. to read Whole Foods BS that's true rafy. side I'm getting everyone wrong by the. way and there's a 50% chance like I'm.

going for broke I'm going to go false. I'm going to go wrong the rest of the. time to keep a streak alive each letter. is 50 foot tall that's false even though. it's true I'm going to try to keep. getting it wrong no it is false they're. 45 foot tall originally they were 50. foot tall I actually got it wrong and. getting it wrong which is even better. streak is alive the sign got smaller two. more the H was set on fire by an. arsonist on New Year's Eve 1999 you know. right before the Y2K thing false that's. right it was illuminated in the. millennial lighting they spotlit it and.

lastly the letters were installed at. varying altitudes creating an undulating. effect in order to quote catch the eye. of. visitors true false they it looks to be. undulating but if you're at the altitude. of the of the sign is totally level I. noticed that when I was there the other. day hiking and looking at it for hours. so you do that hopefully you guys. learned something if we should have a. mythical meet up at the top of Mount Lee. just you we should set it date and all.

mythical beasts who want to hike to the. top of the Hollywood Sign we should meet. up there that's what I'm talking about. and it should be the year 300 in the. year 3000 meet us there at 1:00 a.m. July. 17th oh gosh link smells awful you have. to read it so people will know what the. deal is oh was that you something smells. awful in here let's start this over. because I need to smell you cuz you're. the one who stinks oh it says smells. awful. what I thought it was link smells.

something awful and I was gonna get go. ahead and get into it yeah you were way. ahead of yourself on that one. sorry false um what is that what you you. smell that no I don't I don't smell. anything I. mean it's is that your hoodie no no no. it's not it's not my hoodie is your. T-shirt no no no it's it's your is it. your actual skin no no a you smell aw. for.

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