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The iconic Hollywood sign in Los Angeles is turning 100 years old today and will be lit up with its original lights to celebrate the birthday.

Now 100 years old, the iconic billboard started out as an advertisement for an upscale housing development

Each of the nine massive letters atop Mount Lee are receiving a new coat of paint. But do you know the surprising and sometimes dark history behind the iconic sign?

Lights and sirens! Bells and whistles! Today, Los Angeles fills your ears and eyes with noise and light, the rush and whoosh of cars and buses and trains, the pinging and ringing of millions of phones, the music that’s not to your liking leaking from other people’s earbuds, and the perpetual glimmer and glare from headlamps and streetlamps and storefronts. And oh, are you ever wistful for the years of yore, for a Los Angeles that surely cherished civilized silences and decent darkness. Boy,...