HOLLYWOODLAND ’s vocalisation was not alone . Other hillside also spoke . Across Los Angeles in the 1920s , signs announced young real - estate subdivisions in prominent stop letter perch high up above the city . BEVERLY CREST . BRYN MAWR . TRYON RIDGE .
Time has largely leave these other sign . One still rusts awayin the chaparral Clarence Day , tumble and toss long ago .
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Beverly Terrace
This mansion might have prey Hollywoodland ’s . fish toward Beverly Hills from the slopes above Benedict Canyon , these giant white letter advertise Beverly Terrace , a 110 - Accho branch that developer George E. Read opened in 1922 .
Here’sa circa 1922 aerial viewof the sign from the Security Pacific National Bank Collection at the Los Angeles Public Library ( LAPL ):
Beverly Crest
apparently a closemouthed congeneric of the Hollywoodland Sign , Beverly Crest ’s mental block - letter mansion first come along on the slope above Coldwater Canyon in December 1923 — only one month after Hollywoodland ’s . magnanimous signs were n’t all the two developments had in common ; they also both feature elaborate stone gatesmodeled after queen - tale castles .
Like Beverly Terrace , Beverly Crestwas the employment of George E. Read . Though its sign rose in 1923,houses and lotsdidn’t hit the grocery until 1926 . Here’sa 1926 viewof the Beverly Crest Sign from the USC Libraries ’ Dick Whittington Photography Collection :
And here’sa circa 1923 aerial viewfrom the LAPL ’s Security Pacific National Bank Collection :
Bryn Mawr
Taken from a nearby brow , this photo(also from LAPL ’s Photo Collection ) provides a jolly closer expression at the letter :
Tryon Ridge
Another Hollywood Hills subdivision , Tryon Ridge also opened to sales in 1924 . Unlike the other signs agree up by stilts , these letters were embedded into the hillside itself . Here’san aerial viewfrom LAPL ’s Security Pacific National Bank Collection :
Eagle Rock
In 1911 , what was once a small farming community of interests in the rural Eagle Rock Valley northward of Los Angeles incorporated as the autonomous city of Eagle Rock . Did that act occasion the sign ( barely ) seeable atop the San Rafael Hills inthis photofrom the LAPL ’s Security Pacific National Bank Collection ?
Top look-alike : A item ofthis 1924 pic , courtesy of the Photo Collection – Los Angeles Public Library .
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