The Hollywood sign debuted 100 years ago
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The Hollywood sign debuted 100 years ago
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Very few industries have such an iconic name and emblem as Hollywood.
The music industry doesn't. If I were to ask you to name the city, place, or thing most associated with music, I'd get different answers.
Fashion, too. Sports. Wine. No Hollywood.
Silicon Valley is a good comparison, but when you think of software, it's shifted to the Bay Area and other places. It's not the same magnitude of definitive.
Hollywood is truly the dictionary definition, gold standard, 1:1 moniker.
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Very few industries have such an iconic name and emblem as Hollywood. The music industry doesn't. If I were to ask you to name the city, place, or thing most associated with music, I'd get different answers. Fashion, too. Sports. Wine. No Hollywood. Silicon Valley is a good comparison, but when you think of software, it's shifted to the Bay Area and other places. It's not the same magnitude of definitive. Hollywood i…
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Man some people just care about different stuff than you do
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Very few industries have such an iconic name and emblem as Hollywood. The music industry doesn't. If I were to ask you to name the city, place, or thing most associated with music, I'd get different answers. Fashion, too. Sports. Wine. No Hollywood. Silicon Valley is a good comparison, but when you think of software, it's shifted to the Bay Area and other places. It's not the same magnitude of definitive. Hollywood i…
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> It's trivial, a mere signpost on a hill.
many culturally significant things are like that -- valueless aside from some mythos or story that provides the value from somewhere other than worldy presence.
The sign is trivial, but it symbolizes a lot of the same things that Hollywood itself has come to symbolize for many years.
'Going out to California to make it big' has been one of the slices of American Dream for a very long time. The Hollywood sign is one of the things that has become associated with that idea, among others; and that's ignoring the international impact that Hollywood has had on the world in the past, even if the strangehold on the worlds' cinema culture is no longer as tightly held, as you mention.
> Depends where you are in the world.
I'd argue that even elsewhere in the world, 'Hollywood' would be a likely answer from those asked, but few if any people in Mumbai, for example, will make a mention of Pinewood.
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Very few industries have such an iconic name and emblem as Hollywood. The music industry doesn't. If I were to ask you to name the city, place, or thing most associated with music, I'd get different answers. Fashion, too. Sports. Wine. No Hollywood. Silicon Valley is a good comparison, but when you think of software, it's shifted to the Bay Area and other places. It's not the same magnitude of definitive. Hollywood i…
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Ignoring that the film industry in India is popularly called Bollywood, in honor of Hollywood.
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> It's trivial, a mere signpost on a hill. many culturally significant things are like that -- valueless aside from some mythos or story that provides the value from somewhere other than worldy presence. The sign is trivial, but it symbolizes a lot of the same things that Hollywood itself has come to symbolize for many years. 'Going out to California to make it big' has been one of the slices of American Dream for a…
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