Jeff's Streetlights & Highways Site Photo Gallery Streetlights & Poles Photo Gallery Entrance To the right, a Thomas Betts 125 with feathered friend, from a Flushing, Queens supermarket parket lot. The 125 is one fixture not used on NYC roads.

From Nassau County Ancient Twinlamp lampposts on Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow. Braced Uplift Twinlamps with Westinghouse AK10 Cuplights in Westbury. Gumballs and old pole between Roosevelt Field & Stewart Avenue. Mercury Westinghouse Cuplights at Northern Blvd & Lakeville Road. Jericho Tpke utility pole with old Westie Silverliner. GE Form 79 & Friends at Northern Blvd & Searingtown Rd in Roslyn.

ROADKILLS & GHOSTS

• Two DeadWoodie Corpses.
• Roadkill! The remains of a knocked down GCP TB-113.
• Mosholu Avenue Corvington, with rare Mission Bell Junior lume. SAD UPDATE!

More Guest Star Classics, courtesy of Kevin Walsh:

• Westie MO-8 Mercury Open Type Flat Wedge.
• GE Mercury M100 Open Type Scooper Wedge.
• Riis Park Rareties from Rockaway.
• Queenboro Bridge Rarety.
• Bishop Crook with Cobrahead Luminaire.

Luminaire Close-ups Somebody in the light-nut community help me out please. I'm certain this was a Thomas Betts model, the predecessor to the 113 and 125, but I haven't a clue as to its model number. I was sort of a mini version of the 327.

Admiral/Holmes-Hat Incandescent. Crescent-Moon/Claw-Shaped Incandescent. The Mini Version of the Thomas Betts 327. Whiteway Fluorescent Tube. Bell Fixture Closeups. Thomas Betts 327. Old Westinghouse Silverliner Closeup. 1960's Mercury Fixture from Flushing Meadow Park. GE's M250R, godfather of the GCP lumes. A 250R cousin, with nonstandard diffuser. GE M250R lit up. Back view of the M250R. A TB-113, with the flatter diffuser. A TB-113, with the rounder diffuser. Close-up of BC's Revere 400w merc. Hubbel Mercury fixture in courtyard of my apartment complex.  Bronx River Pkwy GE Form 400 Clamshell.

From JFK Airport, in Jamaica Bay, Queens

• Rare JFK Airport Snake Poles.
• JFK Airport Twin-Snake Poles at TWA Terminal.
• JFK Airport Twin-Snake Poles Closeup.

Cast Iron Rarities from Manhattan

• West Canal Street Spiked Castiron Twinlamper.
• Corvington Style Mast on Building Wall.
• ShortHeaded Bishop Crook Closeups.
• 5th Avenue Original Castiron Twin Lamp.
• 5th Avenue 1920-30's Twin Lamps.
• 5th Avenue 1920-30's Twin Lamp with Cup & Bell Lights Closeup.
• 5th Avenue 1920-30's Twinlamp with Cups Close-up.
• Old Canal St. Bishop Creek with Bucket.
• Old Bway Bishop Creeks with Buckets.
• Old Worth St. Bishop Creek with New Bell Fixture.
• Manhattan Bridge Reverse-Scroll Castiron from Other Side.

Others from Manhattan Gumballs from Battery Tunnel Plaza walkbridge. Queens Midtown Tunnel Ramp Fixture.

No, it's not a photo, but it is a memory partly composed of photographic elements and I don't stand on ceremony here. Manhattan's 6th Avenue, also known to many albeit called such by few, Avenue of the Americas, was lined for a decade or more by the fabled General Electric Form 109 clamshell pioneers, attached to equally classic braced uplift masts. Each pole had a little medallion honoring one of this hemisphere's nations, some of which still survive, although their poles have carried quarterloop masts and high pressure sodium fixtures since the late 1960's. The last few years have seen the incredible return of the quarterloop eating retro casted bishop crooks. Ironically, except for JFK Airport, I don't think the Form 109 appeared on any other NYC streets.

Streetlights/poles around Queens Gothic Castiron Twin in Jamaica. Strange Lume on Springfield Blvd. Last surviving Cast Iron pole on Rockaway Blvd.. Lit Up GE M400 on Brookville Blvd. Utility Pole. M400s on Brookville Blvd. Utility Poles Looking South. Bigloop with Cuplights, on Conduit/Cross Bay ramp. Last Castiron Twin at Rockaway & Brookville Blvds. Doomed Cuplight on Rockaway Blvd. Fiery Grand Central M250R night shot. Rusting Cuplight on eliptical arm at Cypress Hills. GE M400's on Cypress Hills Ave near Robinson Pkwy. C-H OVZ Fatlip fixtures on the Robinson Pkwy. Typical Expwy Walkbridge Pole with Cuplight at day. Expwy Walkbridge Pole with Cuplight at Night. Closeup of GE M100 Mercury Open Type Scooper Wedge on T-pole. Old Mercury Open Type GE M100 on T-pole. Braced SLECO Bigloop Twinlamper on GCP. Old Clamshell GE Form 400 "Buglight" in Queens Shopping Center Parking Lot. TB-125 in same Queens parking lot. Crouse-Hinds OVS Fixture in Flushing. Clearview Park Woodies with Cuplights.

From the Bronx: Closeup of LPS on High Crookarm Mast. Oldstyle Utility Pole Mastarm, with M400A2 lume. Blockhead Unidor 400s from Co-op City. Monster Cuplights from New England Thruway. Westinghouse Silverliner on Bronx Utility Pole.  To the right, a classic Whitestone style pole, fitted with a rare intact & working Westinghouse cuplight. A LPS fixture on a highmasted crookarm keeps it company. Both on Henry Hudson Pkwy, by 235th St walkbridge

Streetlights/poles around Brooklyn Braced SoftCurve Mast with Goofy Looking TB327. Closeup High Crookarm Mast in Sunset Park. Woodie Twinlamp on Belt Svc. Road. Tired Doubtful on 20th Ave. Utility Pole. Surviving Avenue Y GE-M400's. Turtle Beak Open Type Mercury Fixture. Cheerful Westinghouse Silverliner HPSodium at Classon and Eastern Pkwy. Rare castiron lamppost on Belt Pkwy walkbridge. Quarterloop/Guywire Mast Combination. Rare utility pole mastarm, with fire alarm light. OV-20 Buglights in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn Parking Lot. Off-ramp shortarmed Belt Pkwy Woodies, with Bucket lights. Closeup of Old Gas Station Lights in Sheepshead Bay. Mercury fixtures at Brooklyn College. Red Hook Radial Wave.

From Westchester County Weird "HiFi Needle" Light from Hartsdale NY. Admiral Hat Crescent Moon Lit from Ardsley. Admiral Hat Crescent Moon from Eastchester. GE Form 79 and Old Pole from Ardsley. Old & New Mastarms on Pole from Ardsley.

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