As Curbed LA and other outlets have reported, the Sunset Foot Clinic is moving — and with it, that means the infamous Happy Foot/ Sad Foot sign will be leaving as well. The iconic sign has become a bit of a modern meme in Silver Lake, and even now adorns t-shirts and jewelry that you can buy. The sign has delighted residents for years thanks to its, well, silliness -- depicting a sad foot, with crutches, on one side, and a happy, healed foot on the other.
Alissa Walker writes on Curbed:
The Sunset Foot Clinic is moving, and so is the two-sided sign known as Happy Foot Sad Foot that has spun from its high-profile perch on Sunset Boulevard for 37 years.
Just reading the news is like watching the famous sign rotate in real time. The clinic needs a bigger office (happy!), will be leaving its current location (sad!), is taking the sign with them (happy!), but the sign won’t spin anymore (sad!).
The impending loss will be most acutely felt by a group of tight-knit neighbors in the immediate vicinity who use the sign to tell people where they live. Due to the fuzzy demarcations between Silver Lake and Echo Park, the neighbors started referring to their community as Happy Foot Sad Foot or, in full neighborhood-branding mode, HaFoSaFo. The designation was made quasi-official when the neighborhood social network Nextdoor dubbed the area “Sunset HaFoSaFo” on its LA map.
Sad foot, indeed.
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