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Order Number
00073099
Title
Don
Lee
Broadcasting
System
antenna
Collection ID
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession
Television-Studios
Date
Circa
1938
Physical Description
1
photograph
:b&w
Historical Data
Don
Lee
(d
.
1934)
had
applied
for the
license
for the
W6XAO
transmitter
in
February
1931
, and
it
was
granted
five
months
later
and
transmitted
programs
from a
location
in
downtown
Los
Angeles
. In the
late
1930s
,
Thomas
Lee
,
Don
Lee's
son
,
purchased
this
20-acre
site
on
Mt
.
Lee
to
increase
the
transmission
field
of the
station
. This
300
feet
high
steel
antenna
,
built
to the
cost
$200,000
,
is
placed
upon
what
is
considered
the
highest
television
transmission
site
in the
world
.
Description
The
new
transmitter
antenna
and
station
building
for
Don
Lee
Broadcasting
System's
electronic
television
station
W6XAO
,
located
atop
of
Griffith
Park's
1,700
ft
.
high
Mt
.
Lee
.
Subject
Don Lee Broadcasting System.
Transmitting antennas--California--Los Angeles.
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles.
Television stations--California--Los Angeles.
Mountains--California, Southern.
Mount Lee (Calif.).
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Format
Photographic prints
Reproduction Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at
http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html
for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
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