Dollaradio Station, Pacifica California | Footage Teaser

Описание: History:
1888
Robert Dollar moves to San Francisco (San Rafael).

1903
The Robert Dollar Company is incorporated.

1905
The Ocean Shore Electric Railway (later known as the Ocean Shore Railroad) construction begins which cuts travel time from San Francisco to Santa Cruz from 5 hours (via the Southern Pacific Coast railroad) to 2.5 hours. For decades the Ocean Shore Railroad travels on the coastal bluff of the Dollaradio Station property.

1912
Short-wave amateur radio use is designated to the sub-200m range by the US government to avoid amateur radio interference with long-wave Government and Commercial stations.

1920
The Dianna Dollar ship is the first privately owned US freighter to ever engage in around the world service.

1924
Dollar Steamship Lines begins the famous ‘round the world passenger service’, the first ships to carry the American flag around the world on regular schedules that departed San Francisco every 2 weeks.

1925
The first short-wave contact ever from ship to land was made between the Kamiloa with Fred Roebuck aboard as radio operator using Heintz and Kaufman radio equipment.

1926
R. Stanley Dollar travels to Washington, DC to explain the dire need of communication to and from his ships which were at the time the only ships carrying the American flag on regular schedules around the world via the Dollar Steamship Lines’ famous ‘round the world passenger service’. Dollar acquires exclusive access from the Department of Commerce (the FCC did not exist yet) to use short-wave radio with his ships via the call sign ‘6XBB’ and specific short-wave spectrum assignments.

The term “Dollaradio” emerges for the first time the name of the experimental private ship-to-shore radio network now established with the call sign ‘6XBB’ and short-wave spectrum assignments from the US government, and the operating station is to be called Dollaradio Station.

1927
Dollar Steamship Lines signs an agreement with Heintz and Kaufman to equip Dollar vessels with short-wave radio.

Dollaradio Station is first established with 2 20’x20x wooden shacks separated by 100’ built at the edge of the Pacific Ocean - one shack for transmitting and another for receiving and living that house some of the custom equipment built by Heintz and Kaufman.

1928
The Dollar Line ship ‘SS President Taft’ sails from San Francisco, CA to Manila, Philippines in constant communication with the Dollaradio Station at Mussel Rock and achieves a first in US commercial land-to-sea radio communication.

The first Pacific Ocean plane flight occurs and maintains constant communication with the Dollaradio Station at Mussel Rock for 7,263 miles - marking the longest period of constant radio communication ever recorded at the time.

The Dollaradio Station is used to communicate via morse code transmissions with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s Antarctic expedition - the first Antarctic expedition in history, and copies the material for relay to the New York Times for publication in the morning newspaper.

‘Captain’ Robert Dollar is on the front page of Times magazine as the main story, known as the ‘grand old man of the pacific’.

1929

R. Stanley Dollar travels on his SS President Taft with legendary radio operator Fred Roebuck to Shanghai from San Francisco maintaining radio contact the entire time.

1930
Dollaradio Station is expanded with 2 red hollow brick buildings (1 of which is still preserved on the property today), 13 more acres, 2 self-supporting radio towers of 225’ and 250’ that support a 600m antenna.

1934
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is formed and the Dollaradio Station starts providing public communications under the name of Globe Wireless, LTD after the FCC ruled that the Robert Dollar could no longer operate a private radio system.

1938
The US government takes over Dollar Lines and creates the to-be-historic operating company The American President Lines.

1941
Globe Wireless is closed down by US government decree shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

1945-1975
A couple, George Wesley Patterson and (interior design and remodeling) and Robert Poehler (architect), purchased the Dollaradio Station receiving station at Mussel Rock and spent 30 years together treating the building as a historical artifact and constructing a remarkable residence around and within the structure. Poehler passed away in 1975.

1977
Joan Klass Levin and Marvin Levin purchased the Dollaradio Station from George Patterson following the death of George’s partner Robert Poehler.

2010
The Pacifica Planning Department designates Dollaradio Station a historic landmark via the Pacifica Planning and Building Commission.

Credits
Executive Producer | Corey Crellin
Location Custodian | Joan Levin
Directors of Photography | Kelsie Moore, Thomas Woodward
Editor | John Hancock
Music | Quebrada Honda by Lazarus Motel
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