BJ tower under construction: May 12, 2005
The revolving BJ clock tower is gone forever. In its place will be a concrete tower with a stationary time and temperature display on four sides and a wrap-around LCD message board for streaming news, announcements and–if a zoning variance is approved–advertisements. The old sign had 12-foot tall plastic letters. The 26-foot-tall, 4,800-pound stainless steel top is now lying on the roof of the building. It will be given away or carted off to the scrap yard where the scrap would sell for $1,500 to $2,000. The new tower will be 15 feet shorter than the last one, peaking at 105 feet above the sidewalk. The new tower will resemble the original 1930 tower. Changes from the original were made in 1939, 1935 and 1966. The new tower should be in place by mid-summer.
Columnist Bob Dyer writes about it in a piece on page B1 of the Beacon Journal on Thursday, May 12, 2005. Accompanying the story is a sketch of how the new tower will look.
Click on the headline to see it.
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