It was disconnected in 82-3 when LB put in LPS, been there ever since. On Spring St E/O Bellflower Bl.

Funny the arm looks somewhat modernish.....

I think these arms have been around since the 30s. The straight guy arms were around as early as c. 1910.

How about truss arms on wooden poles

OV-20's are among the rarest lights seen down here in Texas,i know of a few in a parking lot right here in tyler and streetview reveals a few in other texas towns that could very well be gone by now.

I now live about 10 min from this OV20 lol.

A chance to climb on the pole.....and a result...is THIS!!! And possible a same electrical company....

Geez while that guy was up there he could of at least passed me that M250R

Gailgrove, It was actually a GE M-250A1

These were on every corner in Rhode Island until the 70's. I have yet to see ONE left. plenty of MV cobraheads left in Newport and Jamestown though. It seems the costal areas still had mercs installed until a couple of years before the ban! I wonder why those areas got new mercs while the rest of RI didn't. I think NGrid powers that area as well...

Mike, I know of at least one, and its viewable on Street View. Check it out!

This is an older resolution video from around 2008 though, hopefully its still there today.

This Rhode Island is an EVEN better one than yours Dave It's the RARE OV-20 internal ballast! So rare that I never saw one in person!

Wow. And yes, according to Joe Maurath, RI used some of the lest common models and most were still around until around a decade before i was born. This one is probably still there unless it needed serviceing or there was road work. There are plenty of mercs on Rte 116. See all of these: this is one of the OV10 another OV10 a light over a LM Unistyle 175 (m250R2 lens) and M-250R a FLAT BOTTOM OV-25!!!! M-250A and lastly this OV25 silverliner ALL of these are working and mercury vapor! Is your mouth watering yet? there's also an OV15 on the same road as all of these, but I forgot to find it before i closed out streetview.

Honestly for me Incandescent or a clamshell or OV-14B or OV-20 or anything older than a 1965 is the most special for me I would see like 100 OV-15s , 10 OV-12s, 20 Unistyle 175s, even a bunch of modern GE M-400R3s with sag lens with MV every day!

ANY mercury vapour streetlight left here is a special find since Ontario has been mostly HPS since the mid 90s.

Hey Mike, thanks for the links! Good to see there are still some mercs out there, I remember seeing mercs all over RI back in the 80s when I was out there visiting my grandparents and other relatives. There were some Form 109s on Reservoir Rd in Cranston, some mercury teardrops scattered around, lots of OV-15s and OV-25s, even some Wheeler Boston quarter moon mercs (some were incandescent too). Ahh what memories.

Jace and Joe, yep I agree, I love the pre '65 installations but any merc is cool regardless of age. My favorite though, are the earliest mercury installations around here from the late 40s, they are generally stamped OV-20s and OV-20 pendants with rounded glass, on really old painted steel 3 piece poles. Very few remain.

all of those lights are on Rte 116 in the Scituate/Smithfield area. Resivoir Ave is all 250w HPS M-250R2s now. A few of the ballast cans are around, but most of tha arms are newer since the few remaining ones are extremely rusted steel. There are LOTS of ballast cans left on the older 8' aluminum underbrace arms. You can see the cut leads poking out from underneath. here's the OV15

I was by there a couple weeks ago, and it is still there.