Ok, here's a toughie reference request, as I've been all over the internet for public photos and found nothing:
What did the life raft racks installed during the 1980s refit look like up close? I haven't seen that type of life boat rack (stacked three high vertically) on any other US Navy ship so far, and the pictures of the real ship aren't close enough to make out any detail other than that they're indeed vertical and three life rafts high.
I would also sincerely appreciate decent pictures (especially from the top) of the post-overhaul mast configuration.
(I'm working on updating a 3D model I found on Sketchup's 3D warehouse with some of the details the original builder never got around to, like the radio antennas etc.)
Also, to correct some misinformation from earlier in the thread (no offense to veterans' memories):
Talos wasn't removed during the 80-83 reconstruction, it was removed, directors and all, some time before summer of 1979 (there's a picture of this config dated June 1979 in Friedman's "US Cruisers", pg 413). In the interim, a pair of Harpoon launchers were installed where the Talos launcher had sat (picture of this, dated January 1980 is on Navsource:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/1109/04010945.jpg) for the her Westpac cruise of 1980, after which she went to the yards for the big refit and refueling.