Back when the Hollywood sign had an extra syllable

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c. 1924

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In 1923, Los Angeles Times owner and real estate investor Harry Chandler was looking for a way to advertise a new housing development in the Hollywood Hills above Los Angeles.

His friend H.J. Whitely (who claimed to have coined the...

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