December 7, 1941 Transmitter Logs - Part 1 - The day of the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  This is the upper portion of the KFI
transmitter log showing all the parameters that were logged every two hours.  The 
VER entry in, "Program Circuit in Use" refers to Vermont Avenue Main Studios
as opposed to 10th & Hope studio or Pomona Fruit Frost Warning studio.

December 7, 1941 Transmitter Logs -  Part 2  - This is the bottom portion of the 
same page showing notations about the Nick Harris Detective Agency providing 
guards for the transmitter site shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  
Also note the asterisk reference to a War broadcast in the lower left corner.

December 8, 1941 Transmitter Logs - Part 1 - Upper portion of the log for this 
date showing routine readings every four hours.  It appears from this log that KFI 
was not on the air after 6 p.m. due to the fear of an air raid.  It was feared that the 
enemy would use KFI as a navigation aid as had been done with KGMB in 
Honolulu, Hawaii.

December 8, 1941 Transmitter Logs - Part 2 - Bottom portion of the Log for 
this date.

December 9, 1941 Transmitter Logs - Part 1 - Again it appears that KFI did 
not stay on the air after midnight this date.

December 9, 1941 Transmitter Logs - Part 2 -  Look at the notes at the 
bottom of this page where KFI was told to stay off the air until further notification 
to prevent the enemy from using radio direction finding.  Also note the tower 
lights being turned off by order of the CAA.  This was done to prevent the tower 
lights being used as a beacon by enemy aircraft.

December 9, 1941 Transmitter Logs - Part 3 - Interesting notes on the back 
side of the log regarding the hasty installation of flood lights on the KFI transmitter
site as well as the guards having order s to shoot to kill.  Several of the floodlights
on the roof of the KFI transmitter building are still 
there including the temporary cables.

December 10, 1941 Transmitter Logs- Part 1  - On this date it appears that 
KFI signed off at midnight.  Note the name Tokar on the bottom portion of the log.
George Tokar is still alive and doing well.  He went from KFI to KFI TV (now 
KCAL TV) where he worked until he retired many years later.  I had the opportunity 
to talk to him recently. (2000)

December 10, 1941 Transmitter Logs- Part 2  - At the bottom of this page 
there is an interesting note about an Army guard accidentally shooting a hole in 
the ceiling of the shop in the KFI transmitter  building.  Also further work on the 
floodlights is mentioned plus another War broadcast is noted.

One of the floodlights put atop the KFI transmitter building shortly after the 
attack on Pear Harbor.  This picture was taken in July 2000.

Another view of the floodlight installed atop the KFI transmitter building 
shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Inside view of the garage building showing the room created for the 
Army guards to live in while guarding the KFI transmitter.  This picture was 
taken in July, 2000.

Another view inside of the old garage building at the KFI transmitter site 
with part of the garage converted to living quarters for the Army guards.

VJ DAY - Looking down on Hollywood and Vine from Press Wireless 
Operations Center in the TAFT Building at Hollywood and Vine.  
Photo courtesy F. A. (Bart) Bartlett, W6OWP

Teletype operators manning the many radiotelegraph circuits at the Press
Wireless Operations Center in the Taft Building at Hollywood and Vine.  
Photo courtesy F. A. (Bart) Bartlett, W6OWP

Fire at Sardis on Vine Street in Hollywood.  This picture is not dated but it
would have been taken during the fall of 1936 when F. A. (Bart) Bartlett 
worked at KNX copying news by Morse Code.

Press Wireless recruited many old-time operators during World War II 
years.  Leonard Johnston was one.  He had worked for Marconi and gave 
Peggy Bartlett, wife of Bart Bartlett, this autographed photo of himself at the
Glace Bay, Canada, station taken in 1907.

Press Wireless Operations Center - There were times when radio signals
would fade out.  This probably explains the inactivity in this photo.  With the 
operators on a "break," it provides an opportunity to get a better view of the 
operating positions.  This was during WWII at the Press Wireless Operations 
Center in the Taft building at Hollywood and Vine.  
Photo courtesy F. A. (Bart) Bartlett, W6OWP