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The Carson Pirie Scott store on State Street in Chicago closed its doors earlier this year. Before it did, I bought the sound system from most of the store. During the process of stripping out loudspeakers and amplifier cabinets, I got to wander all over the place and look at all the neat electrical oddities. Unfortunately, I don’t have many pictures. This one is of a fuse panel that I thought was particularly interesting. The building had 120/208 panels, 277/480 panels, and, some sort of old DC system in the basement. The whole place seems to have been pretty well maintained, but it was still very hard to find where the amplifier racks were wired to sometimes. The blue fuse on the left side was running one of the sound systems that I removed. It was a really neat building to work in.

-Ben

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