That alteration, at least, was officially approved.įinegood could be credited with beginning this tradition. KABC - Los Angeles residents woke up to the new year with an oddly altered landmark. In Finegood’s day, he and his buddies were also responsible for changing it to “Ollywood,” in honor of Oliver North and the Iran Contra hearings, as well as “Holywood” for the Pope’s visit in 1987. January 1, 2017, 10:05 AM The iconic Hollywood sign was vandalized overnight in what appeared to be a New Year's Eve prank. AbGesp1JG8 Vsauce (tweetsauce) FebruPrankster nearly falls off cliff’s edge at Utah national park in. Hollywood Sign Vandalized to Say ‘Hollyweed’ Variety Home Biz News 9:02am PT Hollywood Sign Once Again Changed to ‘Hollyweed’ By Pat Saperstein Reed. According to Variety, the sign has been changed to read everything from “Save the Peak” to “Go UCLA” in the past. Febru7:52pm Updated HOLLYBOOB Happening right now. Finegood similarly altered the sign to celebrate the first year marijuana had been decriminalized in the state of California.Īltering the Hollywood sign has long held a kind of irresistible pull: it’s big it can be seen by thousands of people it’s right there. On New Year’s Day in 1976, Hollywood resident Daniel N. What the people spreading the image across social media may not know is that this isn’t “Hollyweed”’s first rodeo. In an apparent New Years prank, someone was able to climb up Mount Lee, in the Hollywood Hills area of the Santa Monica Mountains, and place tarps over the two. CBS Los Angeles’s cameras captured an image of the new sign Sunday morning at around 8 a.m. Faculty, staff and students should show up tomorrow and go through their regular routines, UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh says.
In the early hours of the first day of 2017, vandals climbed the famed Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, hanging black and white tarps on its two O’s to make it appear as though the letters spelled something quite different. Our concern is the safety of the neighborhood and the trespassers that put themselves at risk because it is extremely unsafe to be on the sign, let alone traversing the treacherous hillside that is home to those 9 famous letters.”Ī 1976 New Year’s Day prank has apparently become a tradition. “This is more than preventing pranks or trespassing at the sign. “We will be deploying additional technology to tighten up surveillance and thus deter unwanted visitors in the future,” chairman Chris Baumgart told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement.
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Update (January 3, 2017, 9:15 a.m.): As a result of the New Year’s Day “Hollyweed” prank, the Hollywood Sign Trust has pledged to bulk up security around the Los Angeles landmark. The Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, Calif., read 'Hollyweed' for a few hours on Sunday morning thanks to a New Years prank.
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