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This one (at the end of my street) is one of the most leaning poles I've seen. And yes, it was installed this way! About 11 years ago they had done some pole replacements in my neighborhood. A number of really old poles (I assume original to the neighborhood; probably from the 50s) are still around as you can see. Brown insulators and all, so they must be pre-1965.
Here's another pole right in back of my house, one street over. Those 1-1/4" 6ft upsweep arms originally held incandescent street lights, probably radial waves or admiral's hats or crescent moons. You can tell and old one from a new one because the new ones are 2" and have a smaller lag bolt flange than the old ones. You can see the next pole down was replaced but never fully removed (just chopped halfway) since someone had a basketball hoop on the old pole. Here's an old three-way primary line intersection (fourth line going left is just a strain relief so the pole doesn't end up being pulled toward the right; it's connected to the pole at the next block). Here is said next block.
you can see the two poles in the back were replaced but the one up front wasn't. They probably left it because it only has a 240V line, no primary feed.
Lastly, take a look at the old street name signs on this old pole. They're white with embossed black letters, like a license plate. In order to do that, it's actually two single-sided signs riveted together. No idea on their age. I'm not sure if they're original to the neighborhood, but there's only three I know of. Those two, and this one (oh BTW, another leaning pole after that one lol).
I dont think my city is allowed to let poles lean that much
I bet the old street signs are heavier than the ones used now lol
Concrete poles on the other hand, have to kept straight during burial and the backfilled soil has to be compacted enough so that it dosen't settle and make the pole lean. I suspect they didn't bother with that for some of the new poles.
I believe wood poles here are installed fairly straight but they tend to lean over the years. My area has poles dating back to the early 60s but I think some of the older poles in Toronto are from the 50s or even the 40s and 30s. Occasionally I've seen leaning poles but with the fixtures level. I wonder if they came back to level the fixtures after thy discovered the leaning pole.