Photo Gallery Streetlights
 I was on my way to the Rockaways with
Forgotten-NY's Kevin Walsh one balmy Saturday in July 2000, when
we came across these unusual luminaires in the parking lot of
a Bell Atlantic (Now Verizon) facility at the corner of Springfield
Avenue and 136th Avenue, in Springfield Gardens, Queens.They certainly date from the "Forward Look" jet-age 1950's, and strongly resemble the General Electric Form 109 "bugs" that graced the Kennedy Airport lampposts of that era, which hung from their masts much the same way. They may well be Form 109s, but I don't know for sure. Speaking of mast-arms, these are also rather unusual, at least for this region. What a story these lumes could tell about their employers, who changed several times over the last twenty years of the 20th century. from the original New York Telephone, to post ATT Breakup NYNEX, to Bell Atlantic, to Verizon. |
