KCTV5 tower.

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Re: KCTV5 tower.

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KCPowercat wrote: Wed Nov 21, 2018 2:23 pm It was the only way to know if it was raining back in the day!
Didn’t the lights used to tell the weather. Lights flashing up meant it was going to warm up?
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Yeah and blinking top meant rain.
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My notable KCTV tower memory is from 1976 when a woman climbed 1/3 way up and unfurled a banner painted with "Mary Hartman,Mary Hartman was right." Mary Hartman was some Norman Lear comedy/soap.
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