AT&T went crazy building an assortment of microwave relay towers as part of its Long Lines network in the 1950s and 60s. Many of them still stand, but some don’t. The completionist in me couldn’t resist taking a photo of the site of a demolished tower just north of Marion, Indiana.
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The Marsh on Forest Avenue in Marion’s Northgate Shopping Center opened in 1960. The company first remodeled the building in the 1980s before changing the layout again in 2005 to closer resemble its new “Lifestyle” supermarkets like the one in Fort Wayne. Fresh Encounter, an Ohio grocer, purchased the building out of bankruptcy in 2017. Today, it’s a Needler’s Fresh Market.
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