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Originally Posted by stanklem
I conject it is a film projection viewer similar to large screens used today.
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stinklem
I couldn't help but notice the object on the roof has the same dimensions as a slide viewer. A really BIG slide viewer.
Here's a little one.
But if it worked as a projector (showing giant transparancies) it would have to have been slanted downward to be viewed from the street and sidewalks. . .
. . .but as you can see it isn't.
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OK, I just looked at the 2nd old photographs again.
There appears to be a 'lens' (or screen?) several feet inside the frame that is slightly slanted downward.
(but I don't think it's enough to make a difference)
Do see it? Does it look slightly slanted to anyone else or am I imagining things?
Obviously the dark space between the outer frame and this interior 'screen' worked as a shield from the sun so the image could be seen during the day.
Also too. . .surely something this large and out of the ordinary was reported in the local newspapers. (but so far
, zilch)
Whatever it is. . this roof-top oddity has stumped all of us for years and is one of the very few mysteries that we haven't been able to solve on NLA.
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