[BC] Radio Transmitters in Residences

[AM Lover]

Years and years ago, many  moons passing, I visited a 5KW huge gates 5B  AM Transmitter in a house in Bluefield, WV if I recall.  The transmitter was dutifully installed in a special room built right in the house and if I recall there was a big picture window where you could see the transmitter from the living room and the tower was in the backyard.  This had all been built back in the early 50's or 60;s.  The house was a nice ranch style house of modern design.  No one was living in the house when I visited but surely they could have and someone most likely did when it was installed that way.    Furthermore the house was in some kind of small subdivision with other houses! Imagine that getting built today.  Ah the good old days.

That is the only one like that that I ever saw, and I thought how thrilling it would be to actually live in a house that had a transmitter in it. How convenient.  I would love to have been the transmitter superintendent living at the WLW site in the 1930's!  How much more RF heaven could a person be in than that.  

Ah the good old days.  Solid state rectifiers and transmitters just don't do it for me like the good old beautiful art deco transmitters from days of old.   

_bob_