{"id":293270,"date":"2026-04-30T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293270\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:17:07","slug":"historic-neon-sheriff-star-returns-to-west-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293270\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Neon Sheriff Star Returns to West Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

A giant electric star has been relit on Santa Monica Boulevard<\/p>\n

Route 66 is shining a little more brightly tonight with the repair and refurbishment of the giant neon sheriff\u2019s badge in West Hollywood. The three-foot-by-three-foot sculptural star was created in 1997 as a gift from the City of West Hollywood to the Los Angeles County Sheriff<\/a>, who has been responsible for overseeing this area since long before it became a city in 1984.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old sculpture sits on top of a tall pole near Santa Monica Boulevard and San Vicente Avenue. The six-pointed star is outlined with a single line of yellow neon, and two rings of neon framing the word \u201cSheriff\u201d in the center. It may have rotated on brass rings and bushings at one time. Reportedly, it was a twin of a sign built for Universal Citywalk in the 90s.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like retro vintage!\u201d exclaims Paul Stoakes of Signmakers<\/a>, a Downtown sign manufacturer and restoration shop. \u201cIt\u2019s phenomenal and iconic.\u201d Stoakes estimates that manufacturing the sign today could cost up to $40,000.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"A Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department squad car in West Hollywood Credit: Photo by Tony Webster \/ Flickr<\/p>\n

Stoakes has been busy recreating massive 1930s-era neon signs for the former Earl Carroll theater in Hollywood and just got the job to restore a century-old theater marquee in Ontario. \u201cI think I\u2019m in a great position cause I\u2019m like the last (neon) man standing,\u201d Stoakes says. \u201cI\u2019m not going anywhere until I hang my shingle up.\u201d<\/p>\n

West Hollywood\u2019s urban designer John Chase<\/a> praised the sign when it went up. \u201cThe star-shaped sign is a spectacular object that changes the corner dramatically communicating a sense of public security with its neon symbolism,\u201d he wrote in 1999. \u201cPassersby had no idea the station was there. It calls attention to the building.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A giant electric star has been relit on Santa Monica Boulevard Route 66 is shining a little more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,119823,90824,2637,87104,655],"class_list":["post-293270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-san-vicente","tag-santa-monica-boulevard","tag-sheriff","tag-weho","tag-west-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}