Hollywood Sign building for the antennas. From 1939 to 1947, this site was the location of the studios and transmitter of the first television station in Los Angeles, W6XAO (now KCBS-TV), founded by The Don Lee Network, hence the name Mount Lee. The TV studio left this location in 1948, and the transmission facility left in 1951, moving to the higher Mount Wilson. Land in the vicinity of the sign was purchased by Howard Hughes in 1940, who planned to build a hilltop mansion at Cahuenga Peak for actress Ginger Rogers. Before long Rogers broke off their engagement and the lot remained
Mount Emerson (California) suggested that Muir might have intended to confer the poet's name on Mount Humphreys which had already been named by the Whitney Survey. Mount Emerson (California) Mount Emerson is located in the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County in eastern California in the southwestern United States. Mount Emerson is the 116th highest mountain in California and the 671st highest mountain in the United States. Mount Emerson is named in honor of the essayist, poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Muir wrote in a letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr that "I have named a grand wide-winged mountain on the head