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Bay Bridge Toll Plaza c. 1980 (old incandescent, mercury and fluorescent street lights!) You can see the GE Form 101 incandescents on the left (in tandem with mercury fixtures), and the fluorescents on the right. The incandescents on the left were common on 40s and 50s built portions of the San Francisco Bay Area freeways until the 80s. Today, the toll plaza is lit by HPS high masts. Photo is in the February 1981 issue of National Geographic. Keywords: American_Streetlights

Bay Bridge Toll Plaza c. 1980 (old incandescent, mercury and fluorescent street lights!)

You can see the GE Form 101 incandescents on the left (in tandem with mercury fixtures), and the fluorescents on the right. The incandescents on the left were common on 40s and 50s built portions of the San Francisco Bay Area freeways until the 80s. Today, the toll plaza is lit by HPS high masts. Photo is in the February 1981 issue of National Geographic.

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Filename:2011-06-25_15-20-44_753.jpg
Album name:Silverliner14B / American Streetlights
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Filesize:814 KiB
Date added:Jun 25, 2011
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Form109   [Jun 26, 2011 at 12:57 AM]
that's a cool pic.
Silverliner14B   [Jun 27, 2011 at 01:42 AM]
Who else likes this? Just curious lol.
joe_347V   [Jun 27, 2011 at 08:05 AM]
Nice, I always liked looking at older pics and seeing if I can ID any vintage streetlights in the pic.
rjluna2   [Jun 27, 2011 at 12:28 PM]
I also like to see the ever frozen period traffic jam of these vintage cars Razz Very Happy
Silverliner14B   [Jun 28, 2011 at 12:00 AM]
@rjluna, yeah but imagine 3-4 years earlier, it would be different with much bigger cars.
TiCoune66   [Jun 28, 2011 at 12:23 AM]
I have a sort of nostalgia for 1980s cars. One day I'd like to get one of those and restore it. Cool

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