It was damaged by a fire in 1952 and demolished the following year.
Booo!
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Absolutely zero idea why something like this would catch on fire. None at all. A complete mystery.
Those are low power phone lines. And by the look, amazingly well strung. God knows what the safety was on the power lines feeding the amps (or whatever) looked like.
I had always thought this was an existing tower repurposed for them new fangled phone lines. Neat!
What sort of dl/up did this babies produce?
Yes.
Electric State-ass design
So Steampunk. Or rather, Hoarpunk
I bet the EMI from that abomination could warm up some soup for you, in the right spot ofc.
I had never heard about this before, it's both cool and horrible at the same time!
0 Mbps, but voice over copper was quite good.
Yes but microphone technology was awful
I suspect you may have meant to respond to the speed comment rather than root?
Yes, sorry
The lightning catchers... Embellish alright.
that is such a cool looking structure, I wish that more cities had the "wires strewn about" vibe.
Mumbai
something about stockholm syndrome and getting used to it?