[PRCo] Re: Werather signals

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Bob Rathke wrote:

> The Grant Building has the Morse Code signal.  I believe it was installed
> when the building opened in the 1930's, probably as an aviation beacon.
>
> The top of the Gulf Building originally had white lights.  Around 1960 the
> white lights were replaced with orange and blue lights (horizotnal tube
> lamps, alternating colors) and it became the weather signal.  The weather
> signal was inactive after the energy crunch in the 1970's, but the white
> lights were turned back on in recent years..

I think their roadmaps called it the "WeatherGide" (or something like 
that, I think they elided the u); Interestingly, my recollection is the 
people protesting Gulf's presence in Angola who set off a bomb in the 
building in 1974(?) were "Weather Underground". Or maybe I'm just making 
this up.