How does your community disguise its cell phone towers?

[normie]

Originally Posted by statecollege

Your tower photo got me wondering if a clock tower at a relatively new shopping center just off I-95 at Lorton Rd in Lorton might not also serve a cell transmission function. It's built on a hill across the center's parking lot and very close to I-95. I always thought it was a little out of place. I'll have to check into that to satisfy my curiosity.

A clue can be the clock on the clock tower. Does it actually tell time? The cell phone towers may have just pasted on faux clock hands.

[JulzRulez]

Originally Posted by normie

I've heard some cell phone towers are built to look like giant pine trees. Others have faux architectural towers built around them. Check out this one in my neck of the woods, with sort of a bavarian clock tower look.

So.... how did your community disguise its cell phone towers? Or, did they bother to disguise them at all?

I had no idea that they were EVER disguised! How cool!

[tgbwc]

The one at Byron Park in Springfield has the fake tree branches. I also believe there is one in the front of a church at the corner of Hooes Rd. and Sydenstricker Road that is used as a flag pole. It's huge.

[Margery]

Originally Posted by normie

A clue can be the clock on the clock tower. Does it actually tell time? The cell phone towers may have just pasted on faux clock hands.

I just looked out my window and the one at Great Falls Plaza on Algonkian Parkway does tell time. I do notice at night sometimes it is lighted and sometimes it is not.

[oneasterisk]

We'll soon have one at a church that is disguised as a bell tower: Supervisors approve cell tower near historic Woodbridge church | InsideNova

Not sure if it'll ring though.

[beatlecrazy]

Where my parents live, there is one that's disguised as a pine tree. It looks terrible since it's right next to the train tracks, where no other pine trees sit. The "limbs" of this plastic tree don't even start until more than halfway up the trunk, it looks real bad. They live a few minutes south of Philadelphia.

I've seen a few pine-towers here, and they kind of look just as bad, but at least they try to blend in with other real pine trees.

[Gottasay]

I've seen them hidden inside gigantic crosses in front of churches along interstates...

[normie]

Originally Posted by Margery

I just looked out my window and the one at Great Falls Plaza on Algonkian Parkway does tell time. I do notice at night sometimes it is lighted and sometimes it is not.

Well, in that case my hat is off to the builders. It's nice to see little details like this addressed.