[BC] Day/night separated sites

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Mike Holderfield wrote: 

> I even heard there were secret/hidden rooms
> for "groupie" action.

    When I moved to Boston in 1980 to help move the 
1510 from Quincy (the old WMEX site, in a tidal marsh) 
to Waltham (to get 50kW full-time, instead or 5kW at 
night out to sea), the second floor of the Quincy 
transmitter building had a large, semi-round room 
with a high ceiling and a depressed center area, 
that MUST have been a Playboy-style 'action pit'.  
The view of the from there was quite stunning, 
including some of Boston Harbor and the Boston 
skyline.  

    When I got there, it was littered with old tubes 
in boxes (I made close to $500 returning them to 
Econco for the dud fees).  There was even a walk-in 
cedar closet.  ALL cedar walls and ceiling.  

    The place burned down a couple of years after 
the move to Waltham, when vagrants, attempting 
to stay warm, lit a fire on the wooden floor and 
the thing went up like tinder.  Nothing was left 
but the bricks and mortar.  

    Wish I had gotten pictures.  For those of 
you who aren't familiar with the Boston Top-40 
days, WMEX was the big dog. . . for some history, 
just go to yahoo.com and type in "WMEX Richmond".  

Grady