tear it down. and those damn Hollywood letters too. some people have no taste.
Sutro Tower: San Francisco's least appreciated landmark
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Re: Sutro Tower: San Francisco's least appreciated landmark
#42On a foggy day, seeing the top of Sutro Tower poke out, looking like a ship in the sea.
I spent 7 years working on the footstep of Mount Parnassus, and I love that tower.
Re: Sutro Tower: San Francisco's least appreciated landmark
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ooh! Thanks to both you and jnsaff2. Those towers are pretty nifty.