 Monster Cuplightsfrom New England Thruway Photo Gallery: Streetlights From the northernmost section of the Bruckner Expressway, to the city's border with Westchester County, I-95 was one of the last superhighway holdouts for the old Westinghouse cuplights. The mercury cups weren't taken out until the 80's and this is what replaced them. |
  Shot June 1998, in the vicinity of Co-op City.
These monster cups were certainly poetic-justice as successors
to thee cups. What their model name is, I haven't a clue. Nearly
the entire length of the New England Thruway, almost up to the
Connecticut state line, is lined with these cyclopic giants,
which form an eerie sight along the center median. Their run
ends just short of the state line, as they defer to a last surviving
gaggle of late 50's vintage buglights (most likely a mixture
of the usual suspects: Westinghouse OV20's, GE F400's and Line
Material's Ovalite).The spookiest thing about these maniacal lights, is that they all appear to face in the same direction, like those giant heads on Easter Island. As for the fixtures, they often appear, hooked 4 to a pole, at major monster interchanges in the region. |