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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
lauren@social.lol ("Lauren Herda") wrote:

Today I toured an old Nike missile base (BA-79) with a visiting friend!

A head-on view of a decommissioned directional radar device. It stands on metal legs on an asphalt pad, viewed against a cloudy blue sky. The metal grating of the directional “dish” is cut with a Fresnel pattern, providing the directionality.
An old shell of a Nike Hercules missile primary stage, covered in rust and missing two of its 4 fins. It sits on its side, roped off but on display.
An area of one of the concrete underground magazines for Nike missiles, showing old decommissioned electrical equipment boxes and the photographer’s shadow cast against the wall.
A view from below the raised elevator of an underground Nike missile magazine, showing the metal piston holding it up and the water-filled pit below. Light peeks through several rusted holes in the metal. Black and yellow stripes adorn the doors that would fold up when the elevator was lowered.