Iconic L.A.: Save the Peak -- Final

WELL, WE CAN close the chapter on the fate of "the Peak." L.A. Times reporting this afternoon that Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner, has come to the rescue of the Hollywood sign "anteing up $900,000 to help in the effort to preserve the land surrounding the famed landmark," says the Times. This will be pooled with $500,000 in matching grants from the Tiffany Foundation and Aileen Getty.
And so, as they say in pictures . . .
Fin

-- L.G.
(photo credit: b. rosen, flickr, creative commons)

Iconic L.A. Save the Peak -- Reprieve

THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reports that Hollywood sign supporters now have 16 more days to raise the funds -- $12.5 million -- to save the the iconic sign and the land surrounding it from "development" L.A. Times blogpost here.

(photo caption, L.A.'s biggest booster, Councilman Tom LaBonge
photo credit, Al Seib, L.A. Times)