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  "path": "/places/wptf-am-radio-building",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-02T18:00:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "film locations",
    "television",
    "radio",
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  "textContent": "You may have thought the WSQK Building featured in the last season of “Stranger Things” was located somewhere in Indiana, but you’d be wrong.\n\nThe real-life inspiration, called WPTF, is located in Cary, North Carolina.\n\nCary is just one town away from the Duffer Brothers' hometown of Durham, NC.\n\nThe WPTF building, built as an AM Radio transmitting station in the 1930s, is still in operation today.",
  "title": "WPTF AM Radio Building in Cary, North Carolina"
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