I lived across the street from Sutro tower for 5 years, there is a great paved path around a water reservoir where you can run or walk your dog. Once a year they bring in a herd of goats to clear out the vegetation - very fun to see this happening in the middle of San francisco.
Sutro Tower: San Francisco's least appreciated landmark
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#32yeah okay, totally unappreciated.
give me a break, it's not 1995.
that's like saying oakland is the new brooklyn.
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#33I'm reminded of the not-quite-as-tall equivalent Crystal Palace transmitter tower in London (which I can see in the distance outside my window)...
http://www.thebigtower.com/live/CrystalPalace/Index.htm
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#34Sorry, but I don't like it. I think it looks ugly and you can see it practically from everywhere. I never liked it...
I grew up with Sutro Tower as part of the SF skyline so I don't really hate it. As the title states, I don't appreciate it as much as the rest of SF's landmarks because it's so different from everything else such as Coit Tower, the Transamerica pyramid, or even the Golden Gate Bridge. It looks ugly compared to modern structures like the new bay bridge. Compared to the rest of SF's landmarks, Sutro Tower doesn't seem…
To each their own. I find the new bay bridge ugly. I much preferred the old one and would have preferred it had been replaced with something more classic. I also find the Sutro Tower beautiful.
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#35It's too bad the tower isn't open to the public. I bet the views from the top are incredible. (As evidenced: http://kiehart.tumblr.com/post/74847934277/up-above-it-all-s... )
Are you aware of any active microwave communication towers [0] that are open to the public? [0] This means structures whose primary purpose to to act as a communication tower, rather than a tourist attraction (Eiffel Tower) or office building (er, every tall office building ever?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehturm_Berlin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostankino_Tower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn_TV_Tower
Plenty of examples like this.
Not really comparable to Sutro Tower but they are there.
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#36The players of http://sf0.org certainly appreciate it.
If you can put a flag on top, you win the game.
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#37This was one of the most terrifying sights in San Francisco when I was a kid, and the best my parents could do to explain it was to say it had something to do with TV.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you aware of any active microwave communication towers [0] that are open to the public? [0] This means structures whose primary purpose to to act as a communication tower, rather than a tourist attraction (Eiffel Tower) or office building (er, every tall office building ever?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehturm_Berlin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostankino_Tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn_TV_Tower Plenty of examples like this. Not really comparable to Sutro Tower but they are there.
In Brazil: http://www.curitiba.pr.gov.br/idioma/portugues/linhaturismo/...
It was built to provide telephonic transmission and has two floors specially built to be visited.
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#39Pretty cool picture, I love how Orion is in the sky and the tower itself looks somewhat like my favorite constellation ;)
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#40I live in the Twin Peaks neighborhood, and regularly run up to Sutro Tower on my morning workout. You can get surprisingly close to it, and there's an oval track adjacent to the tower where you can run. Highly recommend! It's quite breathtaking looking up at it from the ground, in a strange way.
there's a pretty fun dirt trail right around the hill that it's on, too.
It always amazes me how specific the moisture deposition is from the fog up there. One side will be muddy after a foggy day, the other side will be dry.