Sherwood Tarlow

[Dan.Strassberg]

I believe that the WHIL tower collapse occurred after the WBZ-TV tower
collapse. I arrived in Boston in May 1956--several years after the
WBZ-TV tower collapse. I think the WHIL tower collapse (and by that, I
think I mean the FIRST WHIL tower collapse) took place after I was
living in Cambridge (at the MIT Graduate House at 300 Memorial Drive).

Not sure that mismanagement or penny-pinching by Tarlow caused the
WHIL tower collapse to which I am referring, but penny-pinching might
have contributed to the problem. My undertstanding is that the tower
and, for that matter, the 99 RBP building (a much smaller building at
the site preceded the building that, over the years, became a familiar
landmark), were built on what, years earlier, had been a garbage dump.
I believe it was alleged that the tower fell because a guy anchor
pulled loose from the unstable "soil."

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: Sherwood Tarlow


> On 6/24/2012 1:55 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
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>> I wonder if that would have been included in the obit.  I also
>> wonder about his reputation as an owner-- I have vague
>> recollections of the WHIL tower falling at one point in the
>> mid-1950s... or am I mis-remembering?
>
> Could this have been Huricane Carol in 1954, which brought down the
> WBZ-TV tower?
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