The massive doughnut signs that act as landmarks across Southern California’s low-rise landscape are slowly melting away— leaving a hole in the skyline.

The iconic signs shaped like massive doughnuts — that rest on top of drive-up restaurants — are ubiquitous to Angelenos and have been featured in blockbuster films and television shows to signal LA.

In Iron Man 2 , Tony Stark eats a box of doughnuts while sitting inside the hole of the Randy’s Donuts sign. While in the music video for Justin Timberlake’s “ Can’t Stop the Feeling ,” a shop employee dances in front of the infamous O.

The signs are “almost like the Hollywood sign, in some ways,” Adrian Scott Fine, president of the LA Conservancy told SFGATE.

“If you’re going to experience LA, you need to experience a giant doughnut

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