[BC] AM DA in 1953 Movie 'Vice Squad'

[Brew]

I was just watching the 1953 Black and White movie, 'Vice Squad' with
Edgar G. Robinson as Chief of Detectives.  It takes place in LA.  What
caught my attention was when some crooks were driving around the Santa
Monica Blvd area and I saw a bunch of self supporting towers in the
background, built sort of like oil derricks.

But they didn't seem to have the guts of oil derricks, they were just
towers with a platform at the top and another maybe two-thirds of the
way up.  And it seemed there were three in-line running parallel with
the street with two more across the street.  Almost like a
parallelogram array with one extra tower, i.e. 4 towers in a
parallelogram for one pattern and two of them shared with a third for
a 3 tower inline array for the other pattern.

And maybe there were a few more towers around, but it was hard to tell
because of scene changes as the crook's car went around corners and
such.  You know movie production, just because a car goes around the
corner doesn't mean that the next scene is actually around the corner,
it could be in the next town.

I've seen and worked on some oil derrick style self-supporting towers,
one I remember was a ND in Williamsport, PA down by the river (but I
don't remember the call, it was a Class IV, I think).  I had to
measure the base impedance and tweak up the ATU which was on a
platform up inside the tower about twenty feet above the ground.
(don't step back suddenly!).

So is it my imagination (doctor, I see broadcast towers every where I
look!), or are there really oil derricks in LA, or what were they?

Just an idle question before I grab a shower and head to NYC.  I never
did watch the end of the movie, but I grabbed it on my DVR, maybe I
can get a screen shot of the towers if they prove to be broadcast
towers.

brew  Bruce Schiller at CBS-TV NY Master Control Maintenance and WA2ZST