Two years ago I was in Disney World when a Cast Member (“employee”) there showed me a very tall, thin tree. He pointed out that it was the largest tree on the Disney World property and told me it was a very special tree. He called it “Nextelus Maximus” or the “Nextel tree” for short.
That’s right, Disney and Nextel teamed up to build a tree that blended in perfectly to the normal backdrop of the Disney World setting but was actually a cell tower built to service the majority of the 55,000 Disney cast members who have Nextel phones issued to them (Nextel is used as the primary communication device throughout Disney).
Well, those trees are all over the place now (example ). I recently was driving to lunch with a co-worker who spotted one and thought it was a great idea. And it is! Its a great way to hide something like that. Anyone who’s ever been to L.A. can easily see how ugly phone lines, power lines, cell towers, etc. can quickly become when they grow quickly all over the landscape of the city.
Or for those of you in MN, head over to Hammel on THE-55 (highway 55) and check out their implementation of a cell tower … or possibly three towers: 2 cell and one water. Blagh!
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