Wednesday, August 24, 2022

the Paramount Mountain logo

Pic sourced from the wiki page.

A interesting little bit of Utah trivia that I'm surprised I haven't mentioned here before is the origin of the Paramount Pictures logo. Apparently, William W. Hodkinson, one of the co-founders of Paramount, is a native of the Ogden Utah area and drew the initial logo on a napkin in 1914. It's said that he used the Ben Lomond mountain to the north of Ogden as the inspiration for the original logo. However, this is just rumored and has no official documentation as such.

Also, if the Ben Lomond name sounds familiar, it is because it is named after another mountain range in Scotland that is said to be visually very similar. Anyways just a quick random thought for you.

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