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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: March 30, 2017
Caption: AT&T & RCA Receiving Stations Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (left side) Riggers raised and maintained the antennas at the Point Reyes and Bolinas radio stations. Here they pose at the base of a Marconi 300-foot steel mast at Bolinas in the 1940s. Skilled at climbing the poles to repair high voltage lines in all kinds of weather, their pride at accomplishing this dangerous work is apparent in this photograph.; (center) AT&T overseas radio-telephone messages were relayed from Point Reyes to these operators in the San Francisco control terminal in 1946.; (bottom center) Located in front of you to your left is the Point Reyes AT&T radio-telephone receiving station site, pictured here in June, 1946. The central white station building is still visible in the distance below the radio towers. The AT&T transmitting station was located in Dixon, California.; (bottom right) To your right remains a portion this extensive RCA antenna field. The 1931 RCA building can be seen at the end of the long cypress tunnel driveway located to the right of the wayside.
Submitted: April 11, 2017, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p379746
File Size: 3.452 Megabytes

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