An air-raid relic from World War II and the Cold War was recently rescued from where it had perched high above a Seattle street for nearly 80 years.
The rescuer was a local high school student who’s now working to restore the orphan artifact to working condition and donate it to a museum.
Throughout most of World War II, the sirens throughout Seattle were tested briefly every Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. If an air attack had come, the sirens would have warned Seattleites to take cover. Veress did some research. He learned that for an old siren from World War II to still be attached to a Seattle utility pole in 2023 – more than 80 years after it was first installed – was pretty rare.
From the photos Nathan shared, it’s perhaps easy to see why the old siren was forgotten or at least overlooked on its perch high up on the utility pole. It was pretty rusty, and it blended in with the other poles as well as the wires and transformers typically seen at that height. Along with the cosmetic work, the next big step is getting the heart of the siren – the electric motor – reconditioned, which will likely cost about $1,500, and which is work that only a specialized company in California can do.
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