How The ACME Resource Network came to be
“Necessity is the mother of invention and her name is Libby Woolems. A successful art director who just had to have her way, or at least a better way, to research, create, locate and build the myriad of designs for her commercial and entertainment clients…
…The idea for The ACME began as a vision, or more like a mirage, that floated before Libby while she sat in her sweltering car thumbing through two milk crates of Yellow Pages and well known entertainment resource directories. On this particular Saturday morning she had one hour to locate a prop that was needed for the first set up and shot of the day. Libby thought to herself, “If only these businesses would simply list their hours.” And so it began in 1997.”
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The Acme Resource Network is a diverse directory of production resources of particularly likely interest to set designers, set builders, film / photo stylists and other art department personnel as well as other production entities such as media production companies in general, line producers and production coordinators, assistant directors and location managers / scouts - particularly those people and companies located in such production-hub areas such as Hollywood (CA), Los Angeles (CA), New York (NY), North Hollywood (CA), San Francisco (CA) and West Hollywood (CA). (these are the “featured cities” from The Acme’s home page)
I like the name har har 
- remember in all those Chuck Jones / Road Runner cartoons all of Wile E. Coyote’s “weapons of mass destruction” 
and other props were always “Acme” brand?
p.s. All Chuck Jones’ stuff came straight outta Burbank (Warner Brothers is there) just like The Acme!
Acme :: RADIO_ACME
- RadioAcme :: Tom Walsh :: Living in a World of Design | Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 8:03 pm
Living in a World of Design Q: What style of design do you live in? WALSH: Well, we’re about as eclectic as you get. I mean and it’s heavily influ. […] - RadioAcme :: Sexy Desperate Housewives’ Production Designer Tom Walsh | Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 4:20 pm
SUBSCRIBE To receive e-mails announcing new radioAcme shows, lists of upcoming guests and other news and information: Subscribe Now…. - RadioAcme :: Tom Walsh :: The Joy of Working with Friends | Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 5:56 pm
The Joy of Working with Friends Q: You and Libby Woolems go back to working on “Flipper”… WALSH: Well, yea, actually even before that. Libby was. […]
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