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(This is Part Two of a Street View tour of vintage and historical street and pedestrian lights for enthusiasts to view and in hopes of encouraging cities and towns to preserve some of these old luminaires and electroliers, or at least choose replicas that reflect the character of historic districts when modernizing their lighting. The images link to Google Street Views to make it easy to "look around" if an image interests you. The photos begin in Part One.)
Acorns
Hundreds of decorative post mounted lamps can be found. Most neighborhoods had their own post designs. Some areas had higher output lamps that were tall and spaced far apart. Others had lower intensity lighting with luminaires placed close together, oftentimes with a fixture on each corner at intersections.
Classic acorns. (La Loma Road)
Classic Roman column with acorn refractor. (Prospect Boulevard)
Shorter, lower intensity, closely spaced and on all four corners. (Oak Knoll Avenue & Old Mill Road)
Medium height, lining the street. (Blake Street)
Upgraded later model acorns. (S. Delacey Avenue)
Radial Waves! (Classic overhead series circuits.)
The mounting configuration used is quite unusual. The luminaires are typically mounted at the ends of thin pipes that are often simply strapped to utility pole cross arms. The heads are actually held up by the conductors that run up to the high voltage series circuit. This arrangement seems a bit sketchy however the design does get the street light heads out past roadside trees and it has held up for many decades.
Hard to spot the lamp with the trees behind it. (California Terrace & Norwood Drive)
A more complete view of another radial wave installation. (S. Arroyo Blvd.)
A very long and thin goose neck arm. (La Loma Road)
(Here is a good view as to how the bracket arms are mounted.)
Underside view, non-domed reflector. (La Loma Road)
Dimensional perspective. (South Arroyo Boulevard)
A polished dish reflector. (S. Arroyo Boulevard)
A 110v conversion using a 300 Watt equivalent CFL. (La Loma Road)
An apparent LED conversion. (S. Arroyo Boulevard)
(The series insulator was jumpered on the cross arm, a vintage 110v. head installed with the series
conductors tied back to brace the bracket arm and a photocontrol mounted on the pole.)
Occasionally a reflector gets lost. (S. Arroyo Boulevard)
"Splint job." (Madeline Drive)
The crown jewel, a span wired radial wave. (S. Arroyo Boulevard, Madeline Drive, South Grand Avenue)
6.6 Amp Mercury vapor conversion. (S. Arroyo Boulevard & California Boulevard)
(Remote ballast is on upper cross arm.)
Mercury vapor cobra head on the 6.6 Amp circuit. (S. Arroyo Boulevard)
(A few HPS units are also on the 6.6 Amp circuit, powered by step-down transformers.)
Lantern style lamps, 1929. (Washington Street, Charles River)
Metropolitans guard this single lane wooden bridge, 1929. (Cheney Drive, Charles River)
Night view.
Sectional glass lamps still burning, 1935. (Farwell Street Bridge, Charles River)
Newer optics (Bridge built 1917, rehabbed 1947) (Moody Street, Charles River)
Please note: If you notice any entries that need correction or are aware of vintage lights still in service that should be added to this section, please
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