Getting Real Column - 6
10: Kansas City Iron & Metal, which houses the speaker for
the East throat.
Kansas City Downtown and Trolley Bell:
To provide ambi-
ance to the whole left side of the room and to take advantage
on the original sound track which was recorded in stereo,
there are two speakers for the downtown sound track. The
right one is located in the concrete retaining wall beneath the
Grand Avenue bridge and the left one is located in the retain-
ing wall adjacent to Broadway Avenue and facing the railway
express building.
A Tortoise switch machine throws a switch on the bridge to the
trolley track which leads down into Union Station. The styrene
box that forms the front part of the bridge also serves as a baf-
fle for the two speakers. The black grills are made from leftover
sections of a cooling tower that came with the Heljan brewery
kit. They nicely conceal the speakers when painted and weath-
ered. The front section of the Grand Avenue Bridge actually
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