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The “Conspiracy of Silence” That Built San Francisco’s Sutro Tower?
TweetLocal writer Anne Herbert, famous for coining the phrase “practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty,” recently announced on her blog: The closer I live to Sutro Tower, the more I think...
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San Francisco’s Sutro Tower on a Foggy Day
TweetThe fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches 5 and then moves on. Carl Sandburg The formerly-controversial Sutro Tower, as seen from the...
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San Francisco’s New Cell Phone Transmitters are Now Just Above Our Heads
TweetBack in the day, you’d need a big, tall, ugly (or not so ugly) monopole tower reaching up to the heavens to get your cell phone to work. But these days, cellie transmitters are mounted just above...
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Our New and Improved Sutro Tower Now Has New and Improved Digital Broadcasts
TweetNot that you’d really be able to tell, though. Sutro Tower Inc. has just finished a project that had some of the digital TV broadcast antennas (not “antennae” – that plural term is only used for...
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Here’s What You Need: A Ear Rest for Your Cell Phone – Presenting ‘Earos’ by...
TweetHere’s the latest idea to get attention from our Funk Seoul Brothers and Sisters in South Korea. The Seoul Design Fair 2010‘s competition for “future technology and daily living” is called Design...
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Know Your Area Cell Phone Mini Towers – They’re Just Above Our Heads – The...
TweetNow the first time I posted about these cell phone box / antenna things mounted on our telephone poles in the Western Addition / Western NoPA, people from Bernal Heights and the Dogpatch wrote in...
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People, Turn Off Your iPods and Whatnot When You’re Below 10,000 Feet the Way...
TweetNow it’s sort remarkable how no passenger has died the past decade in an Airbus or Boeing jetliner that either took off or landed in the United States. Of course there was the 9/11 and shortly...
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Does This New Cell Phone Antenna in the NoPA Represent “Blight” or Progress?
TweetIsn’t it beautiful? You’ve got the box filled with whatnot mounted on the right side of an exisiting wooden phone pole, the all-important cylindrical antenna up high on the left , and down below...
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