[BC] Buildings that look like old radios

[Alan Kline]

------ At 09:08 PM 6/4/2006 EDT, The Most Honourable WFIFeng at aol.com wrote: -------
>Oh, I wasn't talking about that beautiful building in AU, I was thinking of 
>here in the USA. 

Oops... ;-)

>You'd have to choose your site carefully. Naturally, something 
>like that is a genuine showpiece, so you would *want* it to be in a fairly 
>high-traffic area, anyway. (You wouldn't want it to be a transmitter bldg, for 
>example.)

Depends upon where the transmitter building is, I suppose.  It has to be
possible to design a building today that's both attractive and secure...

>I would hope that someone here in the USA would do something 
>similar... but *not* for a hip-hop/rap station... nosirree... you want *stealth* if 
>you're running *that* format. :(

If I ever lost my mind to the point of running a hip-hop station, I'd put
a big neon sign on the front that says "Police"...and then offer the real
cops a part of the building rent-free, for a substation...

>>  If I ever won the Powerball, I'd buy or build a station and move it
>>  into one of the Art Deco-inspired buildings we've been talking about...
>>  
>>  Sigh... ;-)
>>  
>>  ak
>
>Personally, I have a fondness for that art-deco, myself. "They just dont' 
>make 'em like that anymore". Curious- when did that go out-of-style? 50's?

Probably around WWII, I'd guess.

>Still, I'd rather have the building resemble a radio... perhaps a "boom box". 
>That would make the architcture a little easier- a basic rectangle with a 
>facade.

And a big handle on the top...

ak


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