A Photo Tour Atop San Francisco’s Sutro Tower

by telstarlogistics on January 14, 2009 · 8 comments

guest post by Todd Lappin (Telstar Logistics)

Three men descending the tower by ropes

Looking straight up

Looking up one of the legs

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San Francisco from the tower

My friend Jim Herd points me toward this set of photos taken during an (authorized) ascent up San Francisco’s Sutro Tower during 2005. I’ve always wanted to tour Sutro Tower, and I fantasize that someday, when over-the-air broadcast television technology becomes obsolete, Sutro Tower will become a tourist destination, complete with a public observation deck and restaurant high above the clouds. Maybe someday. But in the meantime, these photos will have to suffice!

photos by | El Caganer

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filed under Photography, San Francisco

{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Mike Kupietz January 14, 2009 at 3:35 pm

OK, now, this is friggin’ cool.

Thanks for making sure to post that the tour these were taken on was authorized… I know there’s a few of us who probably would’ve lost sleep tonight if we didn’t know that.

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2 Jim January 14, 2009 at 6:21 pm

Nice antenna map. My old Honda FM radio would only receive KFOG on all dial settings whenever I was within two miles of this thing. Good times

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3 Keith January 14, 2009 at 8:05 pm

Incredible! (and great tiltshiftmaker candidates, eh?)

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4 meligrosa January 15, 2009 at 9:34 am

my mother is fascinated with this tower.

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5 christopher carfi January 15, 2009 at 11:50 am

i know a guy who wanted to petition the city to put a large, decorative olive on one of the pointy bits, as if it were a giant martini garnish.

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6 Eric G January 16, 2009 at 7:54 pm

Too bad the photographer wasn’t playing SF Zero:
http://sf0.org/tasks/The-High-Score-Task/

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7 jennconspiracy January 17, 2009 at 1:07 am

Isn’t the day of “no over the air” broadcasts approaching with this digital bullshit?

Personally, I’m looking forward to the day when I can no longer receive broadcasts on my tv. It means we are truly moving into the age of deindustrialization.

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8 Joe Rowell March 14, 2009 at 4:53 am

Wow, this tower is awesome. I do tall tower work, and i have been on much taller than this, but this tower would be freakin awesome to climb!
There will still be over the air broadcasts. Both analog and digital. The only thing going off air is analog Television. Analog radio broadcasts will still be here.

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