Hollywood Sign

There was a table, and on that table sat a pair of handcuffs, locked.

Up on the hill behind them, the sign still read Hollywoodland.

The whole thing was being carried over the radio, which tells you what kind of evening this was.

Part prayer, and part show business.

I'm John Batchelor.

Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch on location in Hollywoodland.

Once upon a time, that was the full name.

Jeff tells me the L-A-N-D disappeared, so now it's just Hollywood, the sign above everything.

a handbasket.

Coming up, the Hollywood sign.

What is going on with the Hollywood sign? And there's news there.

Hello?

What's your... iHeartRadio presents the soundtrack to your October.

St. Louis has the arch, which is fairly new.

New York, of course, the Statue of Liberty, also turned the last century or before that in the 1800s.

And LA has the Hollywood sign.

That's true.

You still haven't seen the Hollywood sign, so it doesn't exist.

That's why.

Yeah.

theories of that we talked about i don't know how many episodes go at this point

it's been a lot in a row actually keeping it going i've been

all over la um los angeles county i guess more than yeah purely los angeles i i even have been i think to hollywood i've never i don't i've never seen the hollywood sign so i don't think it exists have you been to burbank yet Where is Warner Brothers? I don't know, dude.

I have been to Burbank.

Its iconography is the most famous thing about it.

The Hollywood Sign.

Little down the hill.

Down the hill.

All right.

[laughs]

The Hollywood Chamber also licenses the Hollywood sign.

I've probably talked to you-

Hollywood.

[bell dings] Do you know the Hollywood Sign was only supposed to stay up initially for 18 months?

I did know this.

Oh, did you? Well done

You know, you just get sort of, you know, sort of just inundated with this stuff.

And I, I never went up to the Hollywood Sign, and I finally, I hiked up there a couple years ago and it was really awesome, you know, to be...

Have you guys ever hiked that, done that?

You did it-

So this is it.

Yeah, we see a lot of movies.

There's some love scene, you know, they're up on, by the Hollywood sign.

You know [laughs] what I mean?