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"Jim Macklin" wrote:

Many years ago, Illinois Bell had a connection box located
at the intersection of Koke Mill Road and Washington Street.
Vandals were always shooting it full of holes and cars that
missed the turn kept smashing it.

So they built a heavy concrete mounting pad about as high as
the hood of a pickup truck topped with a heavy steel vault
that looked like it belonged on a armored vehicle. It was
as big as a walk-in cooler and was covered with Illinois
Bell logos and warnings about vandalizing the property.
After a year or two of no phone service interruptions, a
State Police car chasing some speeders at about 100 mph,
missed the turn and punched a hole through the box.

It was an empty shell, the real connection was about 25 feet
from the intersection and well hidden.

Who really knows where the FAA towers are located?

NY Tracon is a non-descript windowless building in an industrial area on
Long Island. One might mistake it for a warehouse, if it weren't for the
fact that it's got an antenna farm on the roof :-)

It's kind of like walking around Georgetown. Most of the embassies pretty
much blend in with the rest of the nice townhouses in the neighborhood.
Except that some people must really be paranoid about getting good TV
reception because they've got all those funny antennae on the roof.