Street Light Information Sheet
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Street Light Street Views - Old Time Survivors |
Part Sixteen
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(This is Part Sixteen 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.)
Opal glass triplets on very unique posts. (Old post office, 10th Street)
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| Greensboro, NC |
Distinctive opal glass in the historic district. (South Park Drive)
One of the lamps, dayburning. (South Park Drive)
An older post, slightly tipsy. (Cypress and Dewey Streets)
An acorn replacing a broken opal glass globe. (South Park Drive)
| Denver, CO |
Opal glass quadruplets. (18th Street)
Opal glass globes. (Speer Boulevard Viaduct)
More opal glass globes. (Park Avenue Viaduct)
Semi-gumballs. (Stout Street)
| Grand Junction, CO |
Smart looking post acorns. (Rood Avenue)
Old Courthouse. (Rood Avenue)
| Metuchen, NJ |
Incandescent admiral's hat. (Carson Avenue)
Series radial wave converted to 110v. (Blair Avenue)
Day burning radial wave. (Delaware Avenue)
The only radial wave left that is visible to Amtrak passengers. (Barnstable Street & Railroad Avenue)
| Bangor, ME |
Opal glass globes. (Penobscot County Courthouse, Hammond Street)
Close-up of the iron work. (Penobscot County Courthouse, Hammond Street)
| Birmingham, AL |
Opal glass globes on interesting posts. (Robert S. Vance Federal Building, Fifth Ave.)
| Grass Valley, CA |
Lantern style. (Mill and Main Streets)
| Omaha, NE |
Dayburning doubles. (S. 16th Street)
Massive quintuplets, 1912. (Douglas County Courthouse, Farnam Street)
