Statues of TV Legends Abound at TV Academy

In Los Angeles, a city of few statues, right in the heart of Noho there's a veritable garden of statues, busts and wall reliefs. 

You may have driven by and never known, but just off of Lankershim, it's the the courtyard of the . A remarkable tribute to the lasting legacy of television, these statues represent stars from the birth of TV and throughout the past decades.

Several of the most prominent statues, include life-size bronzes of Johnny Carson and Jack Benny, are by Ernest Shelton. 

Also represented in busts and statues are Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Walter Cronkite, Dick Clark, Lucille Ball and Red Skelton. 

There's also a giant replica of the Emmy statue designed in 1948 by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as a model. 

It's a statuette of a winged woman holding an atom, which the Academy says represents its goal of supporting and uplifting the arts and science of television: The wings represent the muse of art; the atom the electron of science.