When Dancing with the Stars crowns the season 34 winner tonight, the victor will receive a fancy and rather heavy trophy that was named after the late Len Goodman. But when the show first kicked off 20 years ago, the prize for outlasting other celebrities in ABC’s makeshift ballroom looked and felt very different.

Longtime Production Designer James Yarnell tells Deadline that he and Executive Producer Conrad Green only decided around week four of the first season that some sort of physical award should be given in the finale. But there weren’t any shiny prizes for ballroom dancing at the local trophy stores back then, so Yarnell had to get creative — and fast — before the July 6, 2005 finale.

So he assembled a trophy that featured the mirror ball emblazoned with the Dancing with the

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