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Title: What are these Street Light Assemblies called?
Post by: roadman65 on May 12, 2025, 11:45:52 AM
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54336862630_b21ef42415_4k.jpg)

These, Ii know, are for a more classical and nostalgic aesthetic, but unaware of the term used for them to be called.
Title: Re: What are these Street Light Assemblies called?
Post by: Big John on May 12, 2025, 12:09:06 PM
Light standards?
Title: Re: What are these Street Light Assemblies called?
Post by: Quillz on May 12, 2025, 04:18:48 PM
Art deco?
Title: Re: What are these Street Light Assemblies called?
Post by: Rothman on May 12, 2025, 07:24:49 PM
They're just decorative street lights.
Title: Re: What are these Street Light Assemblies called?
Post by: mgk920 on May 16, 2025, 11:14:39 AM
Just find the catalog that the designer used for their trade name.

Mike
Title: Re: What are these Street Light Assemblies called?
Post by: plain on May 16, 2025, 06:27:20 PM
I don't know the name of them either, but they're not a new type of streetlight. These similar ones has been on US 60 in Newport News since 2008

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ADxGcWUC4jeVjWpJ6
Title: Re: What are these Street Light Assemblies called?
Post by: Henry on June 11, 2025, 10:08:03 PM
Quote from: plain on May 16, 2025, 06:27:20 PMI don't know the name of them either, but they're not a new type of streetlight. These similar ones has been on US 60 in Newport News since 2008

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ADxGcWUC4jeVjWpJ6
Those same lights can be found in Chicago as well (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8757103,-87.6276268,3a,90y,259.27h,88.83t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s8V1lqTHBKK5qSeFVArwb9A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D1.171495979876127%26panoid%3D8V1lqTHBKK5qSeFVArwb9A%26yaw%3D259.2705239223168!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D). They really don't have an official name attached to them (although I'd call them teardrops), but I'm guessing that their design is meant to evoke the look of the incandescent fixtures that were common in the 1930s until 1950, when mercury vapor lights took over.