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The Tower Optical Company · Norwalk, Conn.30 photographs

From the Tower Optical archive

The Gallery

The machines at work — overlooks, piers, canyons, and skylines, coast to coast.

A Tower Optical industrial heavy-duty outdoor binocular viewer looking at a sunset
Two Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewers at a scenic mountain overlook surrounded by trees and distant hills
A Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer installed at a rustic desert overlook with hay bales, wooden beams, and mountain scenery in the background
A Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer on a wooden platform overlooking a green mountain landscape under a cloudy sky
A row of Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewers installed along a waterfront pier with a metal fence and ocean view in the background
View of optical viewers looking across the water
A row of Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewers installed along a mountain viewpoint
A man uses a Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer at a canyon overlook with a suspension bridge and mountains in the background
A snow-covered Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer
A Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer near a historic white lighthouse overlooking the coast
A person uses a Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer to look toward a lighthouse on a coastal cliff
A man uses a Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer at a scenic overlook near a lighthouse
An ADA-accessible Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer looking across the water
View of a Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer looking over a canyon
Tower Optical tap-to-pay viewers and a giraffe
A Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California
Golden Gate Bridge · San Francisco, Calif.
View of a Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer looking at a mountain
View of a Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer looking at a mountain
A Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer at a national park
Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewers looking over boats
A Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer framed by a natural rock archway overlooking a scenic lake and forest
A red Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer mounted on a pier overlooking the ocean
A Tower Optical binocular viewer overlooking the Manhattan skyline
Manhattan skyline
View of a city through a viewer
A child looking through an optical viewer over the New York City skyline
New York City
A woman uses a Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer to look at the New York City skyline and the Empire State Building from an observation deck
Empire State Building · New York City
View of optical viewers looking at waterfalls
Two people use a Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer to look out over a deep canyon with a winding river below
View of foliage on a hillside
View of a Tower Optical coin-operated binocular viewer looking at a sunset

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Release № 1 · The Collector Machines
A restored black Tower Optical collector viewer photographed in the studio

Fewer than 2,000 were ever made

Three originals are for sale.

Hand-selected from decades of machines that came back through our shop — three serial-numbered originals from Niagara Falls and Crazy Horse Memorial, each restored one at a time in Norwalk. A one-time release: when they're gone, they're gone.

See the machines

№ 507 · № 1028 · № 1939 remain — № 1986 sold