What would you build on the land near the iconic Hollywood sign? 7

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   Tasermons Partner Posted 10:01 am
   13 Feb 2008

   Views aside......I doubt the area has much in the way of ecological value.  And though aesthetic pollution is important...this is the Los Angeles area were talkin' 'bout.  The area around the hollywood sign is already smeared with less than reputable land uses.

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   Pompey Road Posted 11:48 am
   13 Feb 2008

   Hollywood NightsI would do a Mountain Top Removal and Valley Fill. If the Hollywood elite don't like it then it may be something we should not be doing in other parts of the country. Just joking of course, my man Bob Segar's Song "Hollywood Nights" could not have been made on a Hollywood plateau. That is a spectacular view at night from that hill.
   Its funny how you can take one part of the United States and exploit it like a backwater third world country. Expensive mountains here in Kentucky and West Virginia also but we destroy them to get the expensive stuff out to keep the lights on in cities similar to L.A.
   Oh Well! If you don't fall into the ocean out there or the smog don't get ya before the Co2 levels do, plant something symbolic on that hill. A humongous statue of Dick Chaney with an Exxon or Haliburton sign for a backdrop. How about a row of corporate flags like all the flags of the different countries that fly at the U.N. Big huge wattage spotlights for effect at night.
   Seriously, I would spray paint it green and construct a plastic replica deciduous forest up there. That way when ours is all gone we can come out to Hollywood and see what one looks like. We don't mind the tremors or hanging out on fault lines. The blasting and shaking here keeps us conditioned to it.It may also come in handy if you need one for a movie scene.
   
   The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

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   amazingdrx Posted 1:35 pm
   13 Feb 2008

   Good callWind machines and native drought resistant plantings.  Maybe a nice nature trail.
   A huge mcmansion development prjoect is probably more likely?
   
   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

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   caniscandida Posted 4:15 pm
   13 Feb 2008

   dinosaurs!Life-sized golden dinosaurs up and down the slope; and on the ridge, with a nod to the Barosaurus/Allosaurus choreography at the American Museum of Natural History, a rearing mother Argentinosaurus defending her child from an attacking Giganotosaurus.
   Or: a monastery/hermitage/retreat house, along the lines perhaps of this place in Colorado:
   http://www.spirituallifeinstitute.org/Nada.html;
   including a botanical garden, an apiary, a shelter for injured birds, and a petting zoo, the animals having been rescued from cruel treatment on farms.
   But don't ask me where the water is supposed to come from.  : (
   (People should have thought of that, though, before they ever moved to Southern California.)
   
   Chickens are our cousins! So are fish! So are other sentient animals! Let us learn to be kind.

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   justlou Posted 10:05 pm
   13 Feb 2008

   Holly Folly WorldA giant phallic symbol would fit the environs very well.  

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   Delay And Deny Posted 4:12 am
   14 Feb 2008

   Bad investment
   
   Based on falling real estate values in SoCal you'd just end up with a Jumbo mortgage and depreciating asset.
   I'd say wait until 2009 and buy.  By then it should be worth around $360,000.

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   Pompey Road Posted 4:33 am
   14 Feb 2008

   Mount Dick HeadIf you wait until 09 the house of Saud will probably own it, purchased with our oil money. In fact I think they are buying mostly financial institutions now, they may float you a loan. Gee, I hope they don't demand Euro's.
   I would make a Mount Rushmore out of it, with just Dick Chaney's head.
   Sorry I see someone already has the phallic idea taken.
   
   The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

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