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Bye, Bye Hollywood Sign... at Least Temporarily
LAist ^ | 02/08/10

Posted on 02/08/2010 5:07:33 PM PST by BunnySlippers

The LAPD this afternoon sent the most unusual non-chalant e-mail to the community today. "On February 11, 2010 the Hollywood sign will be covered up for an international campaign," an e-mail read. "The sign will be covered until further notice. Do not be alarmed, the sign will remain in place and there will be no changes done to the sign. This is just an informational e-mail so we do not receive phone calls from worried citizens."

That got David Markland at Metblogs curious enough to call Councilman Tom LaBonge’s office [Added: The LAPD is referring all calls to Ramsay]. But the answers he received from them only raised more questions. “You’ll have to wait til Thursday," LaBonge's public information officer Carolyn Ramsay said.


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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: california; hollywood; losangeles; sign
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To: donhunt

I woulda thunk it that they would’ve preferred the USSR.


21 posted on 02/08/2010 5:45:43 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: the invisib1e hand
NASA photo of Hollywood sign:
22 posted on 02/08/2010 5:47:05 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers
awesome.
23 posted on 02/08/2010 5:49:53 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
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To: BunnySlippers
State controlled American media (SCAM) Headline?

Hollywood elites say, It's time for change
OBAMA. MMM MMM MM.
Costly conversion ready in "a week or two."

24 posted on 02/08/2010 6:35:51 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: BunnySlippers

How the hell do *I* buy 138 acres in LA for a mere $12 million?

No sweetheart deal here...


25 posted on 02/09/2010 5:08:59 PM PST by bolobaby
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To: bolobaby

Dunno, but it might be through the Nature Conservacy.

They pick up financing and part of the tab if the land will never be developed. I’ve heard of some very weird deals around town where they are involved.


26 posted on 02/09/2010 5:31:37 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers

Lambchops.com



27 posted on 02/10/2010 12:10:51 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
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