>>88541Nah, Just interesting history about the long-lines system, There's a yahoo group called "cold war comms" that is filled with a bunch of old long-lines techs that really appreciate this info being archived.
Its a really fucking interesting technology in its own right and was the birth of microwave radio as we know it today, also one of the biggest cold war era projects because these towers carried ALL long distance phone traffic that has to travel longer than 40 miles or out of the county as well as secure government communications.
Many of these towers were outfitted with ground to air comms to communicate with military and important government airplanes.
This particular tower is in close proximity to san fransisco and why it was bunkerized to withstand possible nearby bomb strikes, they had entire towers on standby loaded up onto trucks throughout the cold war era. Info that people might not have found out if it weren't for people like us recovering and sharing the history of these sites. (things like phone numbers to head offices and supply depo's are good clues as to where these facilities are located, then we can explore THOSE sites and take more photos, get more info etc etc)
This is the only long lines site I've actually been inside, all the others I just take photos of from the outside
