Plymouth veterans win fight over studio sign

Plymouth veterans win fight over studio sign
By Christine Legere
Globe Correspondent / July 3, 2008
PLYMOUTH - Plymouth Rock Studios, the group of California film executives responsible for the 50-foot "Hollywood East" sign on the front lawn of the 1820 Plymouth County Courthouse, couldn't take the heat.
The company notified the Plymouth County Commissioners office yesterday that the sign would be dismantled and carted away before throngs of tourists arrive in America's Hometown for tomorrow's July Fourth parade.
Veterans, enraged because the oversized letters blocked two 20-year-old memorials to veterans of the Korean and Vietnam wars, had been planning a protest on the courthouse lawn during tomorrow's celebration.
"I say 'Hurray,' " said Alba Thompson, vice commander of the town's Veteran's Council. "It would have been awful to have that sign blocking the veterans' memorials, particularly on Independence Day."
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