My Water Post For Today.
During the Christmas Holiday I got dropped off a few blocks from the subway and actually had occasion to pass through the courtyard of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The Academy is the home of the Emmy, if you didn't know.
It is a pretty cool courtyard area, just off Lankershim Blvd. and Magnolia Blvd. Serene, even though it was built by a busy North Hollywood intersection. You don't hear the traffic, you just hear the falling water from the fountain.
Besides this fountain with its water running down, there are statues of famous Television stars, like Johnny Carson and Desi and Lucy.
The biggest draw, is the Emmy itself. I wondered where the name, Emmy came from...and I found this note on the ATAS website.
"Syd Cassyd initially proposed that the award be called "Ike," the nickname for a television iconoscope tube, but it was deemed too evocative of WWII hero General Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower. Henry Lubcke, the third Television Academy president, eventually prevailed with "Immy," after the image-orthicon camera tube, which was instrumental in the development of television. "Immy" was feminized as "Emmy" to complement the design chosen for the statuette, which depicted a winged, idealized woman holding an atom. Her wings represented the muse of art, and the atom and its electrons the science and technology of the new medium. The Television Academy rejected 47 proposals before accepting the statuette designed by television engineer Louis McManus, whose wife served as its model."
May I state for the record that I always wanted just one Emmy. :-)
I take it, when I said I like history lessions, you end up giving me history lessions, almost every day. This one I really did enjoy joy!!! & I did like the water too, even if it was in a fountain.
ReplyDeleteWell, there isn't history in every fountain. This one just happened to have an EMMY on top of it. :-)
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