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Title: Unusual / ornate streetlight poles
Post by: txstateends on September 06, 2013, 08:06:00 PM
Several months ago, the town of Addison, TX did an upgrade of their median streetlight poles to a new and very different style.  Instead of their usual brown parking-lot style poles with orange lights, a new gray, curved style was put in, with white LED lights, a first for the town.  They were installed along Belt Line Road between the Dallas North Tollway and Marsh Lane.  Sorry I haven't been able to get good night shots of the lights yet, just some early-morning versions:

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Anyone else with some unusual or different streetlight poles?
Title: Re: Unusual / ornate streetlight poles
Post by: 1995hoo on September 06, 2013, 08:34:37 PM
You can find them on Street View (I don't know how to link it from an iPad).... In Hershey, PA, the street lamps look like Hershey Kisses, at least along the main streets (Chocolate Avenue being the primary one).
Title: Re: Unusual / ornate streetlight poles
Post by: Alps on September 07, 2013, 03:09:25 PM
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Title: Re: Unusual / ornate streetlight poles
Post by: roadman65 on September 07, 2013, 11:23:38 PM
Deal, NJ used to have ugly street lamp poles along Ocean Avenue.  They were weirdly bent in design and most likely created by the same person who created the idea not to paint center lines on the street, but use raised cobble stones that are still in view on GSV.   Now I see they've been replaced with a different design, but not so much out of the ordinary like their predecessors were.
Title: Re: Unusual / ornate streetlight poles
Post by: hm insulators on September 10, 2013, 04:20:06 PM
Quote from: txstateends on September 06, 2013, 08:06:00 PM
Several months ago, the town of Addison, TX did an upgrade of their median streetlight poles to a new and very different style.  Instead of their usual brown parking-lot style poles with orange lights, a new gray, curved style was put in, with white LED lights, a first for the town.  They were installed along Belt Line Road between the Dallas North Tollway and Marsh Lane.  Sorry I haven't been able to get good night shots of the lights yet, just some early-morning versions:

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Anyone else with some unusual or different streetlight poles?

Those look like giant versions of a halogen lamp my mother owns that doesn't work right. :D
Title: Re: Unusual / ornate streetlight poles
Post by: 1995hoo on September 10, 2013, 09:03:12 PM
^^^

I'm currently reading the prequel to John Christopher's Tripods trilogy (just released for the Kindle today). Those lamps look like something related to the Tripods!