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Welcome to From Beneath the Hollywood Sign. If you love old movies, Hollywood history, or the golden age of filmmaking, you've come to the right place.

This is the podcast that talks about amazing stories of Tinseltown from another era and fascinating conversations with writer, Steve Kubine, and actress writer Nan McNamara.

So Steve, did Ava Gardner and Howard Hughes have a good relationship?

Well, they did until he dislocated her jaw.

What?

Well, don't worry. She hitting back with an ashtray.

From beneath the Hollywood sign is the gin joint for you. All right, y'all, are you ready for yet another campfire tale?

Because I am excited to take you on down to Augusta, Georgia, and tell you about a weird

curiosity that was shrouded in local lore for years.

But just in the last decade, it was accidentally destroyed.

So, while you can't actually go visit anymore, the legend does live on.

But don't jump to conclusions just yet.

This isn't the Georgia Guidestones.

It's a much lesser known and simpler structure known as the cursed pillar of Georgia.

For over a hundred years, a mysterious pillar stood on an otherwise unremarkable corner of Augusta's historic broad street.

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