The TV tower site hid old mine shaftsSourced
A tower ready to send signals upward.
Old tunnels lay underneath.
While building a Pittsburgh TV station in the 1960s, crews found abandoned mine shafts beneath planned tower anchor points. The site had to be changed, delaying the station's intended launch.
The first obstacle
was below the antenna.
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