GLENDALE : Plans for Museum Are Scrapped
Plans for a museum in Glendale that would house Native American artifacts belonging to actor Iron Eyes Cody have been scrapped, officials said Thursday.
Parks Director Nello Iacono learned of the announcement from Cody’s wife, who said the Codys are overburdened with charitable work. The museum would have been featured in an old one-story adobe building on historic grounds on Bonita Drive.
“We do have a lot of projects going,” said Wendy Cody, who once described the proposed museum as her 89-year-old husband’s dream “to pass on to the children, not just the Native American children.”
“People can only do so many things. . . . This is something that we don’t have a deadline on,” she said Thursday.
Wendy Cody declined to elaborate on the other projects the Codys are working on, but didn’t rule out resubmitting to city officials a proposal for an Iron Eyes Cody museum in the future.
She also said the decision to pull out had nothing to do with the recent separation between herself and Iron Eyes Cody, perhaps best known for a TV public service announcement in which he gazes tearfully at a polluted stream.
“That would be silly to let anything personal to stand in the way of the museum,” Wendy Cody said.
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