How to Cover the Hollywood Sign: A Primer
Ever since "Save the Peak" I've been wondering how the covers for the Hollywood Sign were made. Did someone get an enormous tape measure or was some other, easier method employed? Today I found out via a random phone call from Raiden Peterson, who appears in my documentary, "Under the Hollywood Sign."
Raiden was Pacific Outdoor Advertising's construction supervisor in charge of rebuilding the Hollywood Sign in 1978. In order to perfectly replicate the original, Raiden personally measured each letter of the old Sign; he has blueprints and pictures to prove it. Rather than go to all that bother again, the organizers of "Save the Peak" simply contacted him for the specs, and voila!--Sign covers.
Raiden doesn't think they looked all that great either, but at least they fit.