[BC] Day/night separated sites

[Mike Holderfield]

Interesting Grady. I googled "WMEX transmitter" and
this quote turned up.

"In the summers of 1969, 1970, and 1971 several guys had jobs at the 
WMEX North Quincy, MA transmitter site during their seasonal breaks from 
college studies. This turned into "party central" on several occasions."

mike

lists wrote:
> 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