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Certainly not the last electronics sore in america. Typical californian liar depending on deception to sensationalize their fraudulent claims. California doesn't have any more electronics stores because the people that live there are all garbage and don't deserve to have the service and products that actual humans deserve.

As an employee of AT&T, I really appreciate what you’re doing out there! You’re saving the history of America!

The Headquarters for AT&T Long Lines was just a few miles from my home in NJ.

After my years in the Army as a MW radio tech the first civilian job I was offered (1970) was as a tech at the Turquoise MW site, a major switching center in the middle of nowhere between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The techs working there were housed in a company facility in Yermo and I was not thrilled with the prospect of working/living there since I knew the area well. Fortunately I got another offer to work as a MW tech in the Madison Complex (in your video the MW tower on top of the building in downtown L.A. which is still there) handling the special services (radio, television, Presidential communications, etc.). We were Long Lines on the west coast and we also handled all the switching at Turquoise (and other sites) once the site was automated and unmanned. There are still many locations/towers but the service in now on fiber optics instead of MW. Los Angeles (our office) was one of the major control centers for the AT&T network, the others were NY, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, and Washington D.C. (only because it is the U.S. Capitol since it had little control as a side leg to the system). It was a very interesting job and I retired after 32 years with the company.

There is a large one on Vulcan Mountain and one on Palomar Mountain that most don't know exists.

My school bus (Kingsville Elementary School) turned around next to a Long Lines Tower. It was really tall, but the building was unimpressive. It's a cell phone tower now.

And this doesn't go into the complexity of the buildings themselves. The facility itself is pretty incredible.

My dad ran Long Lines network systems from the early 60s until they were retired.

Interesting ...I started at Mich Bell Tel in 1968 after discharge from the Army I didn't stay at Mich Bell but 6 months I left because of the work environment I found Long Lines in Nov 1969.. I worked there for 45 years I worked 30 years as a Central Office Technician and the last 15 Years as a Supervisor, Long Lines was the Company that connected all the Central Offices together there is a Central Office in all 50 states some got more than 1. We were the Long Distance Company of the Bell System....The fascination with the system is a Long Lines Central Office....!!

There one by me in Indiana

I can remember making long distance calls back in the 70s and 80s after you dialed the number you could have all these towers "hook up" together. Each change in the background "hiss" was a the next tower in the series syncing up until you heard the ring tone. Voice quality was pretty good for back then. As an Amateur Radio Operator, I have a VHF repeater on one of these sights near Bayside Texas. The Sherif's Department had it now for their Radios.

MCI took them over and established a network Truckers could use for cheap LD comm.--then the public

How were these stations supposed to stand up to war? Thick concrete, sure, but the towers and especially the antennas are much more flimsy.

Curious to know what the site is being used for now. From the tone in the background there is still some transmission causing some EMC issues to the equipment.

I really love this place unfortunately they are no longer open Saturdays and seem to discourage browsing

There use to be a store like this in Charlotte, NC thirty years ago on South Boulevard. I used to go in there and walk around. Bought a few things there like a basic AR turntable.

how is this guy to be an "Expert" when he is not old enough to have worked in this arena?

Always wondered what the tower near my home metro was. They are fascinating

Michael is a great creator and the nicest guy!

Where can someone find old meters and switch panels out of these places???

I made that trip up there about 20 years ago. The curious thing was as I was driving up the road, there were "do not dig" flags along both sides of the road. One for A.T& T and one for some other telecom provider. Yeah, quite the job of being secure in where the fiber optic cables were being buried.

Mach one is the speed of sound !

We have one of those in paxton mass

it's hard to watch a narcissist this long talk in hushed tones about how great what he's doing is, how great everything he works on is. i wonder if he's this insufferable in private with his partners and other people or if it's worse

oh so it's all one long commercial

Is it still open?

That military plane photograph box u2 spy plane parts

I love APEX but they are only open weekdays, and they seem to discourage just browsing. I like to look before I make my purchase.

Great video. I had access to a few of those locations as an employee. Plano Illinois was a great one, and Norway Illinois. Got some great artifacts, fallout door sign, and a few other things. Norway was a huge building that had hundreds of workers at one time. It's a literal.museum of cold war tech. Complete with a huge wall showing all the tower locations and status. Looked like NORAD. Sadley, it's a toxic nightmare of leaking fluids and compounds. Plano goes 5 stories inder ground in case chicago got nuked.all those locations have just one person left and will never be dismantled because ATT won't pay for it. They also had a coax backup as well as transmitted TV from coast to coast.

Skycrafters, Orlando Florida, but a smaller scale.

I spent 45 years in the radio and microwave business in Southern California. I've been to Turquoise dozens of times over the years, including inside the old AT&T building. Not only was it part of the Autovon network, it was also a critical site for the major television networks. There were three floors in that building. One floor was batteries and power equipment, one was switching equipment, and the top floor was row after row of radios. TD-2 4 GHz, AR-6 6 GHz radios, DR-11 11 GHz radios... Just tons of the stuff. There was also a huge nationwide network map on the wall that showed how the network television was brought in from NY, Wash DC, LA, and various other major cities. Thia was a fun well done video, I quite enjoyed it.

This really cool I grew up near one never new honestly

Omaha has excellen 1:30 t communication because of the long lines, etc., put in because of HQ Strategic Air Command during the Cold War.

Let’s not forget about the still- open Midwest Surplus Electronics on Main Street in Fairborn Ohio!

3:09 by the interference noise it sounds active

Insane i have a never opened (until I can to the realization that I can no longer say that 😅) NM-67B (listed it for sale on ebay but no pics of the imaculate inerds) cost a woping 44k back in 1977-79 is in great condition

Super cool

really enjoyed this

Electronic Parts Outlet is in Houston, Texas and is an incredible place, still open and doing great. It may be one of the last still standing. There is a video on UA-cam about them, it is fun to watch.

Electronics Parts Outlet in Houston has issue with this video title.

This is so cool especially when he said as a kid he would look for them it’s awesome!! Reminded me of my young self to We had one in Northern Kentucky but they took it down in early 2000’s I guess I was about 10 when I first seen it.1984 I seen it out of the corner of my eye when mom was taking us to school. I thought it was a helicopter at first being that young. You didn’t know what the heck it was but then every day for a week Id look in the same spot for it and seen it every day since, love your videos these towers are very interesting

Last? Hardly. We've got a few here in San Antonio, the best of which is Intertex Electronics. It's like walking into an old school Radio Shack like when I was growing up. Aisles of individual components. It's an electronics hobbyist's wet dream.

i always wondered about these. I remember using a bulky car phone. i wondered how those worked back then.

I have seen a few of these installations, but the one that stands out the most to me is the site in downtown Los Angeles, where there is a high mid-century modern concrete tower with many horns in two or three levels of tower. Before I learned what these antennas actually were, I thought they were still in service today (the ones still intact). I worked for the US Navy at a base in Port Hueneme CA. We had Autovon phone lines in addition to commercial lines. Each employee had both an Autovon number and commercial number. The Autovon system was later called DSN (Defense Switched Network). We could only use a DSN line when talking to other military installations.

That is so funny we had a place in Adelaide South Australia 40 Years ago called Graham Electronics with much the same things that I see here but very, very much smaller.

There's more still around

1:26 Fruit of the Loom logo has no longer ever had a cornucopia. Mandela Effect.

I remember the 70's & 80's AM/FM Stereo Receivers like Harmon Kardon, JVC, Kenwood, Marantz, Nippon, Pioneer, Realistic, Sansui, Technics, & other brands that I mifht have left out!

Bring back good ANALOG Stereo & Electronics Stores!

No one talks about the frequencies that were used with these huge horn antennas. Based on size, waveguide and technology at the time 2 GHz, 6 GHz?