The Hollywood Sign began as an ad for a housing estate and read HOLLYWOODLAND.
Put up in 1923 as a temporary sign, it was left standing; the last four letters came down only in 1949.
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- 1922 Under Mussolini the trains did not really run on time.
- 1923 · 1955 The insulin patent was sold for one dollar, and the polio vaccine was never patented.
- 1925 The first 'face' on television belonged to a ventriloquist's dummy.