I remember this odd structure from the early '80s, like a 'test section' of a concrete expressway. You'd gaze up at it and wonder 'is that a highway I can drive on?' but of course not, you can't even climb up there. It was very high, 40 ft up from fullerton. It stood out like a sore thumb in the area and for all it's prominence nobody really knew what it was, least of all me. And never used by the way. So now we know it was an old radar calibration tower, apparently long past its usefullness as such and nobody wanted to spend the considerable bucks to tear it down for decades. Then the shopping mall developers descended on the neighborhood and came to everybody's 'rescue' first by opening Brickyard (mid-'60s), and with its success adding on Bricktown (late-'80s) to the immediate south. It was the latter that finally succeeded in making this structure only the memory that it is today, and it's funny to me nobody seems to have a picture of it (here anyway).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/21/2015 06:01PM by the_mogra.