Photo Gallery Streetlights
 Closeup snipped from another photo
of mine. This awkward behemoth was usually pressed into service
as a relief pitcher, replacing one of the early 60's trussarm
twins, after a roadkill. The winding, narrow-medianed Grand Central
tended to have more than it's share of such roadkills.A glance at the motley collection of different style lighting standards, inhabiting this parkway's center strip, will give you an idea of just how many accidents occur on it. The massive, unwieldy bigloop twins were discontinued in the mid 70's. They are now as rare, if not rarer, than the trussarm posts they so cavalierly pushed aside. Many of them lean to the side, like they're ready to tip over. I guess that they are as top-heavy as they look. Their single brace-masted brothers had a much more illustrious history, often lining great stretches of newly built, or reconstructed highway. One of those stretches was the selfsame Grand Central, a couple of miles east of where this twin stands. Most of those highways' center dividers were too narrow to permit the planting of twins safely. The Grand Central was one of the few such highways to sport a double braced, extra-longarmed version of the braced bigloop. |