Willis Lamm's
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Long before I collected traffic signals I collected street lights. It was 1966 and I was in 8th Grade. My schoolmate and neighbor, Kenny, and I would ride down to the town dump and get old street lights complete with their 6 ft. mounting arms for fifty cents each. Then we would pedal them back home, balanced across the handlebars of our bicycles.
We fixed up most of these street lights and sold them for yard lamps. A couple we kept and over time I would come across an old street light here and there that I would install to provide area lighting around the ranch. As I put the traffic signal collection together I thought about also restoring these old street lights and using them to simulate nighttime in the collection. Here are the restored street lights in order of their relative vintages. |
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Line Material Early Model
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GE Ceramic Body Domed Type
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Line Material Domed Type
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Holophane "Wide Spread"
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GE "Double Ring"
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GE "Iron Head"
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GE Form 72SO
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GE Form 79CR
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GE Form 175
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Westinghouse AK-10 "Cup Light"
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Westinghouse Mini "Cup Light"
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Joslyn Manufacturing
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Westinghouse OV-20
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Line Material Ovalite
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Westinghouse OV-10
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GE M-400
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Lithonia 175w
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More street lights are being restored and will be presented in this feature
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