Ex-transmitter building

About thirty-five years ago I started visiting all the local radio
stations' transmitter sites. I liked the pictures I took of radio
antennas, some of which were pretty impressive. I haven't visited most of
them in a long time and this morning I was passing by one, so I decided to
visit it.

To my surprise, it wasn't there any more. The buildings were still
standing, though mostly for the pleasure of local young people who clearly
used them for hangouts. There were scattered bit of towers and guy-wires
and the like, but otherwise there were very few signs of its having been a
radio transmitter for more than a half century. It looked like part of the
field, in which, originally, hundreds of copper wires had been placed
underground, had been torn up; I suspect someone tried to salvage that
copper.

The tower that had been here was installed in 1950 and it operated until a
fire destroyed the tower in early 2014. Until today I thought they'd
repaired it, as the station came back on air after a short period. Through
some Internet searching, I've now discovered that they moved it about two
kilometers to the south, across the valley it sits on the edge of.