A group of people are protesting and would like for the Hollywood sign to be removed and taken down to stop tourists from coming.
The community of Los Angeles’ Beachwood Canyon are fighting to get rid of tourists trying to visit the Hollywood sign.
According to reports, the community of Los Angeles’ Beachwood Canyon are fighting to stop public urinating tourists from parking in front of their homes, and driveways.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
“It’s a disaster waiting to happen,” says VFX supervisor Jeffrey Kleiser (RoboCop) of the reality of living a few hundred feet below Los Angeles’ famed Hollywood sign. His midcentury A-frame house, once owned by folk-rock band The Association — of the 1967 hit “Never My Love” — is the residence physically closest to the city’s most enduring icon. So he often deals with Darwin Award nominees who trespass the sign. “It’s late at night, they fall down, knock on your door and go, ‘I’m bleeding. Can I use your phone?’ It’s more drama than you want when you’re leading a peaceful life.”
Far more worrisome for Kleiser and his neighbors in parched Beachwood Canyon these days, though, are visitors who smoke. “If someone dropped a lit cigarette in the bushes, with all of these cars lined up, there’s no way a fire truck could get in to do its business.”
The sign was first built in 1923 and originally read “HOLLYWOODLAND”. Its purpose was to advertise the name of a new housing development in the hills above the Hollywood district of Chinatown.
The sign was officially dedicated in 1923. It was intended only to last a year and a half, but after the rise of the American cinema in Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the sign became an internationally recognized symbol, and was left there.
At this rate of complaints, expect the Hollywood sign to be taken down permanently or moved elsewhere just like the state’s film industry.
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