The Dunbar Hotel sign recreated for <i>Dolemite Is My Name </i> (2019), which is now part of the Academy Museum Collection, gift of NETFLIX, photo courtesy of Clay A. Griffith.


The Dunbar Hotel, ca. 1938, courtesy of Thomas Safran Associates, Coalition for Responsible Community Development.

Art Department production drawing for the Dunbar sign, including a location research photograph, courtesy of NETFLIX.

The sign being installed on the Royal Lake apartments, courtesy of Clay A. Griffith.

The Hotel Dunbar’s sign comes back to life in Dolemite is My Name (2019), courtesy of NETFLIX.

<p>A recreation of the Dunbar Hotel sign, a recent acquisition to the Academy Museum’s collection, illuminates the long and eventful history of one of Los Angeles’s most important landmarks.</p>

Signs and Meaning: DOLEMITE IS MY NAME and the Dunbar Hotel