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L.A. COULD EASILY TOP NEW YORK’S SILLY NEW YEAR’S EVE BALL DROP. SO WHY DON’T
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A California garden in bloom is depicted on a vintage holiday postcard from Patt
Morrison’s collection. Take that, East Coast.
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Usually I begin these columns by casting a look backward over our civic
shoulder.

This time, I’m turning face-forward, to this New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles, and
every one thereafter.

Because, boy, are we missing out.

How a city that built itself on imagination and self-promotion could miss an
opportunity right in front of us — something the world would pay attention to —
simply flummoxes me. And even leaves me a little mortified.

For almost 120 years, New York City has seduced the world into believing that
the new year cannot truly begin unless we’ve watched a large lighted ball
positioned at a neck-spraining altitude make a midnight descent of 70 feet in 60
seconds. People are so eager to stand there in the New York cold to witness this
extraordinary thing that they are known to wear adult diapers so they can arrive
early enough to hold onto a good spot. Super fun!


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40-foot flagpole. Hershey, Penn., sends up — not down — a 300-pound,
foil-swaddled chocolate Hershey’s kiss.

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Here in L.A., we drop nothing — not even a giant, shimmering Oscar. Nothing,
except the metaphorical ball.

The Hollywood sign just turned 100 years old. It is famous like the Eiffel tower
is famous, like the Statue of Liberty, or the Coca-Cola bottle.

Why let it just sit there on the Mt. Lee hillside on the biggest night of the
year?

Now, we do stage a nice, jolly music and dance party for the new year, at the
Gloria Molina Grand Park downtown. Fun, zany, inventive images and the new
year’s countdown are projected on the side of our iconic City Hall. It’s nifty
and all, but the networks are not gonna cut away for that. It won’t birth a
million TikTok videos.



It’s all about the sign. The sign! Other cities have to manage with pickles and
cowboy boots and chocolate — we have the globally renowned Hollywood sign. Make
it work.

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One of the last things former Mayor Eric Garcetti did as he left office was to
give a green light to light up the sign. And one of the first things Mayor Karen
Bass did when she took office was to rescind it.

Garcetti had put his name to a pilot program with “new technology that allows
the sign to be seen on special occasions at night,” no more than three days at a
time, no more than a half-dozen times a year.

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I’ll take once. Once would be great — on Dec. 31.

The sign was originally a garish flashing lighted ad for a real estate
development called HOLLYWOODLAND.

A sign reading “Hollywoodland” was first illuminated in late 1923.
(Photo Courtesy of the Hollywood Sign Trust and HollywoodPhotographs.com. All
Rights Reserved.)

Well, that part’s long gone, and it’s not coming back. But that sign needs to
get sent into the game.

Mayor Bass’s objections were about the “legality” of the Garcetti order.

People who live around the sign are understandably wary and weary when it comes
to anything that would bring yet more fame pilgrims to their skinny, scary
streets, people questing to reach a talismanic sign that is fiercely and firmly
locked away from them.

But for goodness’ sake: West Pasadena residents suck it up once a year for the
Tournament of Roses parade and Rose Bowl game. Beach city neighborhoods put up
with Christmas boat parade crowds. Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena, on the
National Register of Historic Places, has been staging a light show for the
public for about 100 years.

A vintage postcard, bearing a 1947 postmark, from Patt Morrison’s collection
tells the story of Altadena’s Christmas Tree Lane. If that year was the 22nd
lighting, we’re fast approaching the 100-year anniversary in 2025.

So for one night out of 365, the mayor and the Hollywood Sign Trust should be
able to work out security and safety matters to keep people at a distance, and
light this candle. It’s ridiculous that our chiefest, most visible civic icon
and landmark shouldn’t serve the city’s interest better.

As I imagine it would happen, beginning at 90 seconds to midnight on Dec. 31, at
every 10-second interval, one letter after another gets lighted up until, at the
stroke of midnight, the whole sign — H O L L Y W O O D -- is illuminated. Maybe
it stays on for a minute or so, maybe it flashes again, but that’s it, bada boom
— one and done. It’s not like living under an airport flight path.

Can we make this a civic New Year’s resolution?

As for the rest of a Los Angeles New Year’s Eve, here’s more about the big free
Grand Park music fest, which has acquired a joyous following of its own.

A vintage postcard from Patt Morrison’s collection, with a 1910 postmark, was
mailed to Duluth, Minn.

As usual, law enforcement is braced for the gunfire barrage that usually starts
at nightfall.

Some Angelenos labor under the misapprehension that on New Year’s Eve you can
legally shoot a gun in the air. Delete that urban myth right now.

More than 30 years ago, an LAPD homicide detective named Dave Grabelski had gone
to a South L.A. home looking into a burglary. The thieves hadn’t stolen the
woman’s practically new handgun, which she showed to the detective. She assured
Grabelski confidently, “The only time I use it is on New Year’s Eve, when it’s
legal to do it.”

Not then, not now, not ever.

Bullets shot into the air can fly two miles up and come back down at 300 to 700
feet per second, more than enough to blast a killing hole in a human skull, as
has happened over the years. The cops call it murder.

The shooting alone, though, is a felony that could send you to prison for a year
— prison, not jail.

Making noise to drive away malevolent spirits is a thousands-of-years-old
tradition, but stick to banging saucepans, blowing whistles and popping corks.

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1943. We’ve been fighting the sources of pollution and the quirks of geography
that trap it ever since.

Oct. 1, 2023

Every household, every culture has some new year’s practices, like cleaning the
house beforehand so you don’t sweep out the new year’s luck with the trash after
Jan. 1.

Your last big chow-down before your new year’s diet resolutions kick in may run
to the traditional: black-eyed peas, or lentils, cornbread, a dozen grapes — one
for each month of the new year — or scrapple, a kind of Dutch-German pork and
cornmeal loaf.

And if we do this right for next year, we can add this to our New Year’s Eve
traditions: setting your phone alert to 11:58 p.m., in time to watch the TV
countdown coverage of the Hollywood sign’s glittering and sparkling welcome to
2025.

And we’d better do it quick, before that damn Las Vegas builds a half-size
replica the way it did for the Eiffel Tower and steals all of our thunder.

Happy new year (from this vintage postcard from Patt Morrison’s collection)!

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READ MORE: EXPLAINING L.A. WITH PATT MORRISON

Los Angeles is a big, complicated place. Patt Morrison explaining how it works,
its history and its culture in Explaining L.A. on latimes.com.

Jan. 12, 2021

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