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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2014, 11:03:53 AM » |
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Very cool. Deco ruled back in the day, even transmitter buildings. Below is the inside of the WJR transmitter building in 1935. The second is the building as it looks today.
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2014, 01:12:15 PM » |
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Those were very good days
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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2014, 01:26:13 PM » |
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Built Before my time but one of the U.S.A's best eras. That xmitter building is sharp! The splindly little antenna towers in background don't seem to live up to the earlier era's inside apparatus. I'll Have to look up the modern specs. For that station. Oops, ...almost right again.  looks like 50 kW clear channel AM from FCC database info. |
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2014, 08:20:35 PM » |
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Very cool. Even the downspouts were part of the architectural design. Was the green the patina from copper or paint?
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2014, 10:05:11 PM » |
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Beautiful. When broadcasting was a big deal, and station owners took pride in their facilities.
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Breathing solder fumes since 1959. That explains a lot.
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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2014, 09:43:17 AM » |
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Downspouts color matches vent grill on side of bldg., probably painted.
If they were real copper and that accessible , they'd be long gone stolen.
CuO2 is kind of a more grayish green but color balance of pix may be somewhat off anyway.
Wouldn't it make a neat clubhouse?
"Rig here is 50kw OM."
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2014, 10:02:55 AM » |
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Here is a picture of the old ATU Dog House at the base of the long gone Blaw-Knox tower. The structure is close enough to Sibley road to be seen by the public at the time. It's mostly overgrown now. This link has more on WJR than and now. Thanks for the post Steve. http://www.michiganbroadcasttowers.com/towers/sea03.html |
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« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2014, 07:38:58 PM » |
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Good shots of the tower site.
I used to tune into WJR as a youngster growing up. I could even pull them in during daylight hours - a distance of over 250 miles.
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« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2014, 09:46:28 PM » |
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« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2014, 08:16:15 AM » |
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Back in the '70s I seem to remember WJR having a single guyed transmitting tower out back (probably the same one they are using today). But there was also an auxiliary antenna that was a top loaded vertical made of wire. The top loading wire was suspended between two supports. Anyone else remember that?
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« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2014, 12:08:56 PM » |
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I've always been fond of this one--simple, but very Art Deco:  KGEI, Belmont, Cal., 1941 (shortwave broadcasting) |
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« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2014, 12:43:18 PM » |
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Massive !
250kw to the eye sockets too.
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« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2014, 02:58:10 PM » |
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Here is another flame thrower from the Detroit area. I'll bet the lights on either side of the frond doors that shown vertically against the front walls had a nice effect. I wish I was better at Photoshop. I'de like to get rid of the fence and tower guys as well as the ugly roof vents. Clean it up a bit and see what it might have looked like than.
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« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2014, 08:17:44 PM » |
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Long gone now but a Washington, DC legend.
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« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2014, 08:35:21 PM » |
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WQMR - Ah yes, glass block windows, classic period feature.
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73 de Tom WA3KLR AMI # 77 Amplitude Modulation - a force Now and for the Future!
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« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2014, 12:54:45 AM » |
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They are still the good old days. Or maybe the days of whited sepulchers, with the tube stuff mostly gone to the dark side of modular SS, but keeping the beautiful buildings. KRLD. It's all very old. Inside the building is a Great Hall, with a 50KW transmitter on each side.  more pics |
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« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2014, 01:20:15 AM » |
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Commercial radio really caught fire in the 20s and 30s and the architecture tends to reflect that. There are a lot of radio buildings out there in the Deco or Streamline style(s).  WNAX, Yankton, SD |
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« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2014, 07:09:19 PM » |
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Yep, even stations in Japan did the deco thing.
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« Reply #19 on: March 17, 2014, 12:05:41 AM » |
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And the insides of these buildings were pretty awesome too.
That's a 100 kW transmitter shown.
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« Reply #20 on: March 17, 2014, 08:27:26 AM » |
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Nice pix Steve.
H... , even the ash tray is Art Deco as well as all the trim, desks, railings, and steps.
Makes me really wonder about the radio waves emitted in that era.
"E & H waves deco here OM."
Every thing was so shiny and new. The future was bright except for the war clouds brewing.
Got another 6 in. Dump here again last night. (Snow, that is.) Where's that shovel?
Wonder how many conferences got cancelled in DC again?
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« Reply #21 on: March 17, 2014, 11:33:16 AM » |
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"Wonder how many conferences got cancelled in DC again"
Probably not enough.
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« Reply #22 on: March 17, 2014, 09:22:51 PM » |
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KOA in Denver in 1932.
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« Reply #23 on: March 25, 2014, 04:12:20 AM » |
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Built in 1934 and I believe, still in use.  WPTF Raleigh |
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