Berkeley City Hall

Historical marker location:

2150 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, California

( Marker is on Martin Luther King Jr, Way south of Center Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1998

Bakewell and Brown, Architects, 1908. City of Berkeley Landmark, designated in 1975.

The Hollywood sign, which originally read "Hollywoodland," was built in 1923 as an advertisement for a real estate development. The sign was intended to be temporary, but it became a beloved symbol of the film industry and was eventually made permanent.