Hollywood Sign Gets Facelift

Hollywood Sign Getting Facelift (hollywoodsign.org)
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Updated: 10/02/2012 3:29 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Hollywood star is getting a facelift.

But the luminary in question isn't a she or even a he.

This star is the Hollywood sign. The sign was rebuilt 35 years ago.

Starting today, it will be stripped down to sheet metal, primed and given a new coat of white paint.

It will take 10 weeks. Here's a bit of trivia. When the sign was first built in the early 1920s, it read "Hollywoodland." It promoted a real estate development.

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