Why the iconic Hollywood Arby's sign from Sunset Boulevard was at Stagecoach

A play successful the godforsaken is simply a go-to getaway for Southern Californians — adjacent if you’re a beloved neon sign.

Nearly 2 years aft the Hollywood Arby’s closed, its cowboy chapeau shone again this play astatine the Stagecoach Music Festival successful Indio.

The restored motion showed up much than 130 miles distant from its archetypal location arsenic portion of the roast beef chain’s pop-up astatine the festival astatine the Empire Polo Club, wherever it became 1 of the event’s go-to photograph spots.

“As you tin see, everyone’s loving it. Everyone’s getting a photograph op lasting successful beforehand of it,” Arby’s franchisee Roger Amaya said.

Over the 3 days, radical moseyed by the pop-up adjacent Diplo’s Honky Tonk, sometimes lining up to hold their crook to instrumentality a photograph successful beforehand of the sign. Some climbed connected the surrounding hay bales for a amended pose, asking others successful enactment to drawback their photograph successful beforehand of the cowboy chapeau emblazoned with the words “Arby’s roast beef sandwich is delicious.”

A fig of radical we talked to taking photos weren’t from L.A. and didn’t cognize the lore of the Hollywood Arby’s motion — they conscionable liked the visual.

The sign’s archetypal determination was the Arby’s astatine 5920 Sunset Blvd. successful Hollywood, which had been unfastened for much than 55 years erstwhile it shuttered successful June 2024.

The household that owned the determination said astatine the clip that rising nutrient costs, the post-pandemic changes successful the vicinity and a instrumentality that raised minimum wage contributed to the closure.

Amaya said that Amir Siddiqi, caput of a radical of Arby’s franchises, was capable to get the motion from the Hollywood determination and person it restored.

“We were capable to bring it backmost to beingness present and bring it to each the fans of Arby’s retired there,” Amaya said.

Now that Stagecoach is over, wherever volition the motion spell next?

“That’s the large question, truthful you gotta enactment tuned,” Amaya said.