Visual blight

Re “Pushing back on billboard blight,” Column, Dec. 3

My wife and I are graduates of beautiful Hollywood High School. I worked in Hollywood for 25 years. We still live there. The Hollywood Bowl is magnificent.

Hollywood was a lovely, world-famous town. Then came the monstrous, overpowering supergraphics blight. Why are people being treated like this in their own hometown? It isn’t happening in Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, Pasadena, Paris and elsewhere.

I hope for change in what children cannot help but see on their way to and from school. They, their parents and others are paying taxes for City Council members to protect their enjoyable, undistracted view of blue skies, billowing clouds, stars, the moon, the gorgeous Hollywood Hills at sunrise and sunset and the Hollywood sign, their Eiffel Tower.

Duke Russell

Hollywood