What Happened To The KFWB Sign? Your Answer, After Traffic on the Ones

Before...


...and after.

The big neon letters that once beamed from the side of KFWB's old Hollywood studios remain in limbo. As Garrett Wollman discovered and posted on his website during a trip to L.A., the letters are now just lying on the ground at the station's transmitter.

Radio buff Bill Earl writes more on the sad fate of the neon letters at his site:

The KFWB neon sign that originally was on the front of the now-demolished building on Hollywood blvd in Hollywood (and later moved to the old market building on Yucca and Argyle) now remains in disrepair, gathering dust and rust on the grounds of the KFWB transmitter site at the corner of Indiana and Multnomah near the Lincoln Heights area of Los Angeles, just off Soto street.

Someone should make those engineers an offer to salvage that sign, and restore it to its once magnificent glory, before it becomes damaged further by neglect and deterioration.

Two years ago, when KFWB first vacated Hollywood for the Miracle Mile, the Los Angeles Times wrote that a campaign was afoot to save the sign:

Left behind at its old Yucca Street studios was a large neon sign bearing the KFWB call letters and twin antique microphones. A community group, the Hollywood Project Area Committee, is campaigning to preserve the distinctive sign, which dates from the days when Warner Bros. owned the station and operated it on Hollywood Boulevard.

It's unclear what became of that campaign.

Pics above by Flickrbrain (top) and Garrett Wollman (bottom).