r/streetlights

Some of the smaller towns in southeastern PA in Chester/Berks/Montgomery counties still hanging on to the old 'uns.

Earlier today on a trip into the Suburbs in Escondido, CA this afternoon my brother and I went window shopping at thrift stores I saw these and had to stop and take a picture to show you all these awesome late 50's early 60's General Electric cobra head street lights walking pass the Escondido Square Shopping Center 🛒 I am not sure what model these are 🤔 but I saw these growing up during the 80's and 90's and of course today, but not these exact ones but in Northern California and Northern Nevada plus San Francisco, CA and other places along the way these cobra head street lights have always grabbed my attention growing up as a little kid and my teenage years, even still till this day ☺️

On another one of my walks and found this hidden gem in an Alleyway in an abandoned parking lot in North Park (San Diego) this awesome 70's General Electric M-250A with a clear glass drop refractor and a vintage 2' long 1 1/4" galvanized steel mounting arm, I am not sure if it works at all but my feeling says it hasn't worked in years

I definitely can tell you that these awesome hidden gems are not 90 Watts these are 55 Watts Low Pressure Sodium street lights, there is another one on the next wooden utility pole next to it but I didn't take a picture of it because I didn't want to repeat the same street light and they are both on my favorite vintage 60's Southern California 2" galvanized steel mounting arms also these both do not work they haven't in years because I have walked by these at night and never saw them on what a shame 😞😢

I know this is General Electric but I forgot the exact model anyway this is definitely another cobra head street light I definitely want to add to my bedroom street light collection same with the other General Electric M-250A behind me there are a few of these walking down the same Alleyway not the General Electric M-250A but this one with the cut off glass refractor down the street on different galvanized steel mounting arms on of course wooden utility poles but I didn't take pictures of those because I didn't want to repeat the same cobra head street lights it wouldn't make sense

In San Carlos (East San Diego) on another walk this was last year last summer 🌞😎 in a shopping center on the corner of Navajo Road and Jackson Drive I have been eyeing this for a couple years and never saw this awesome General Electric Powerglow 4,000 Watt Mercury Vapor street light turned on plus it is a shame because it was getting torn down because the restaurant behind it was an Italian Restaurant that went out of business and it looked to be also torn down they're going to build more apartment buildings like we need more of those everywhere you turn here in San Diego condos, apartments going up everywhere

I found this on another one of my walks in Hillcrest (San Diego) a couple of summers ago it probably no longer exists because the building looked like it was about to be remodeled soon at that time I haven't been in that section of the city in a while but I should go back and check but pretty much my feeling is telling me that it is gone what a shame for something to go to waste it is like people give it to a collector who really wants it

Does anyone still see these around? I miss them they were a mood.

I found this awesome 90 Watt Low Pressure Sodium Street Light in brown on another one of my walks in North Park (San Diego) in an Alleyway it has my favorite vintage 60's Southern California 2" galvanized steel mounting arm which might be 5' or 6' long that arm is definitely one I would love to add to my bedroom street light collection and store it away for a future build to display my street lights

I used to drive by this place every week. Little did I know that all of them were gonna be scrapped 2 weeks later

I never thought i'd ever see one of these still operating. I see them long dead on commercial buildings on occasion, but here's one, dayburning, at a camp site in the far south of the Netherlands.
The lamp itself has mostly blackened, it barely produces light anymore.
I have one of these at home for backyard lighting when i arrive home after dark, so i do see one running on the regular in winter, but that's because i got one NOS and installed it myself.

Here we have 1 out of the 5 Joslyn MV 141's that are still up in my city. All 5 are decommissioned and have not worked in many years now, they now just sit abandoned on their poles. The General Electric M250A2 that is also shown is also decommissioned. These fixtures used to light up an old neighborhood that used to be here but got torn down around 2007. A Gym now takes the place of where these homes used to be, these lights are now all that remains.