This is the art deco style broadcast station, WPTF - We Protect The Family, that an insurance company owned from the 1920’s to nearly 2000. This building, erected in the early 1940’s was used until 1992. The tower behind it is huge and designed for the daytime 50k broadcast - there are two slightly smaller ones that are directional for nighttime use. In the basement of the building is a disaster broadcast studio and according to a web site the equipment, turntables and lots of reminders of 50 years of usage are still inside. It is across a busy railroad track and behind a fence. We walked across the tracks and took photos from the gate. Would be fun to actually see inside but that is highly unlikely. The station still broadcasts today along with an FM station that was added about 30 years ago. Not sure where the broadest originates but it cannot be as cool as this place. Reminds me of the station in the movie American Graffiti and a time when stations were local and had personality.
This train came past just after we crossed the highway, the radio station is in the background
A more “dreamy” version