OBL at the compound watching old VHS tapes:
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Turns Out That Osama Bin Laden was a Big San Francisco Bay to Breakers Fan, If You Believe Everything You See
Saturday, May 7th, 2011Know Your Bay Area Broadcast Towers: 1250 Clay Atop the Le Club Building – If Towers Sutro and Eiffel had a Baby
Monday, February 28th, 2011Well, lookie at what stretches 50 feet above the top of the residential tower at 1250 Clay Street at Talor in Nob Hill – it’s WNEQ991!
This structure combines the paint scheme of Sutro Tower with the build of the Eiffel Tower. Check it:
STATION, 1250 Jones St (Lat: 37.793250 Lon: -122.414111), Structure height: 94.5 m, Overall height: 109.1 m, Call Sign: WNEQ991
Assigned Frequencies: 21825.0 MHz, 23125.0 MHz, 23375.0 MHz
Grant Date: 08/07/2008, Expiration Date: 08/06/2018, Certifier: Deborah A Mcdermott
Registrant: Brooks, Pierce, Et. Al., Raleigh, NC 27602
The view from California Street near the western terminus of the cable car line:
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Is this where former NBC affiliate KRON Channel 4 transmits? Mmmm, could be. Maybe it’s a back-up or something.
Irregardless, it’s quite a handsome tower.
(Can you imagine what the anti-PG&E SmartMeter people would think if they had this monster humming just above their noggins? Man, they’d freak out.)
Try to spot it the next time you’re in the Specific Whites neighborhood – it will be the red-and-white tower obstructing your view of the Transamerica Pyramid.
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