Hollywood Sign Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the sign became an internationally recognized symbol and was left there. Over the course of more than half a century, the sign, designed to stand for only 18 months, sustained extensive damage and deterioration. During the early 1940s, Albert Kothe (the sign's official caretaker) caused an accident that destroyed the letter "H". Kothe, driving while inebriated, was nearing the top of Mount Lee when he lost control of his vehicle and drove off the cliff directly behind the "H". While Kothe was not injured, his 1928 Ford Model A was destroyed, as
Community newspapers in Hollywood, California Community newspapers in Hollywood, California Community newspapers in Hollywood, California, have included the "Hollywood Sentinel" (1903 or before-1911), "Hollywood Inquirer" (unknown-1914), "Hollywood Citizen" (1905-1931), "Hollywood News," (unknown-1931), and "Hollywood Citizen-News" (1931-1970). In 1903, veteran publisher A.A. Bynon sold his interest in a newspaper called the "Hollywood Sentinel" to G.P. Sullivan, who became the paper's editor. The "Sentinel" received the Hollywood city contract for printing legal advertising in December 1903. In 1904 C.N. Whitaker, former editor of the "Monrovia Messenger," bought the business, but on November 1 Morris & Ponay of Portland, Oregon, took it over. In 1905 Charles Mosteller of