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Friday, March 01, 2013
K/MEN Towers
In light of the KHJ Towers coming down. Here are pictures of the K/MEN Towers a few years ago. As far as I know the towers are still there, but the building is not.
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Anonymous
said...
What date were these fotos taken? It must have been after ABC/Disney took over and abandoned the site for the kiddie satellite broadcasts.
Looking at a satellite view via maps.google.com there have been a lot of development in the KMEN area since the 196o's. The old route into the cow pasture from Baseline has been replaced with an entry from Bessant Street. A formalized drainage channel nearby seems like it would have done away with that cow pasture feeling. Now it's just towers in a dirt field.
6 comments:
What date were these fotos taken?
It must have been after ABC/Disney took over and abandoned the site for the kiddie satellite broadcasts.
The pictures were taken around 2001/2002, soon after the fire that damaged the building.
Looking at a satellite view via maps.google.com there have been a lot of development in the KMEN area since the 196o's. The old route into the cow pasture from Baseline has been replaced with an entry from Bessant Street. A formalized drainage channel nearby seems like it would have done away with that cow pasture feeling. Now it's just towers in a dirt field.
"Looking at a satellite view"
to what that famous site once
looked and represented...
Sad, then, the remaining KITO/KMEN radio antenna towers like lonely sentinels standing watch over a past glory which no longer exists.
C'est le vie.
Hey, I didn't know about the KHJ radio towers coming down. When did that happen, does anyone know? How did it come about and where were they located?
KHJ tower story is at http://www.lbreport.com/news/mar13/khjtower.htm
Don;t know how long the link will be there.
Web Guy
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