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"The structure was 80m tall and soon fell out of favour with the local population. The company requested an architect to carry out embellishment work, which was when the four turrets were added." (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stockholm_telephone_tower

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It was damaged by a fire in 1952 and demolished the following year.

Booo!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Absolutely zero idea why something like this would catch on fire. None at all. A complete mystery.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Those are low power phone lines. And by the look, amazingly well strung. God knows what the safety was on the power lines feeding the amps (or whatever) looked like.

I had always thought this was an existing tower repurposed for them new fangled phone lines. Neat!