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Mercury Mystery Posttop
Not sure what this posttop is but I believe it's mercury vapour and I have only seen them around the UTM campus in Mississauga. 
Keywords: American_Streetlights

Mercury Mystery Posttop

Not sure what this posttop is but I believe it's mercury vapour and I have only seen them around the UTM campus in Mississauga.

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Filename:M_P5135328.JPG
Album name:joe_347V / Toronto Area Streetlights
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:A Mystery, maybe 1960s?
Model Number:Mysterious
Wattage:175-250w?
Lamp Type:Mercury vapour?
Filesize:259 KiB
Date added:May 13, 2012
Dimensions:1200 x 900 pixels
Displayed:161 times
Color Space:sRGB
Contrast:0
DateTime Original:2012:05:13 11:49:45
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Exposure Mode:0
Exposure Program:Program
Exposure Time:1/400 sec
FNumber:f/5.4
Flash:No Flash
Focal length:75 mm
ISO:100
Light Source:Unknown: 0
Make:Olympus Imaging Corp.
Max Aperture:f/3.5
Model:SP600UZ
URL:http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=11682
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gailgrove   [May 13, 2012 at 09:04 PM]
I know of three at an old police station here in Brampton and I think there were more. I can't link to it on my iPod but it is on the South East corner of Queen St.and Central Park Dr.
streetlight98   [May 13, 2012 at 09:05 PM]
Looks like one of these: Laughing

Oh and Niall, did you mean this place? I looked on streetview and only found shoeboxes.
joe_347V   [May 13, 2012 at 11:51 PM]
It's on the other side Razz , it looks like there used to be more but have since been replaced with floodlights.

Still, I wonder who made these, they seem be quite unique looking fixtures lol.
streetlight98   [May 14, 2012 at 12:59 AM]
I see... Laughing These kinda look like the old gas street lights don't they? There's still a few gas streetlights left here. It's usually either a black and a white one about 5 feet apart or simply just a larger black one. It'd be cool to score one of them that're still hanging around.
joe_347V   [May 14, 2012 at 01:49 AM]
It sorta looks like a large camping light too, I don't think we still have any gas lights left though.
streetlight98   [May 14, 2012 at 02:52 AM]
Here's an example of one of the two styles of gas lights around here that are forgotten about. here's another one i know of. This one is in the oddest spot given the fact that it was still up. I'm not sure if the thrid one posted is still up since the ramp lighting was redone about a year ago and I never really paid close enough attention to the gas light since. The second style of gas lights left up here is seen in Pawtucket here. In this one there are four lights total, two black, two white. The last one i posted were different from the other three, which were all just outside my neighborhood in Cranton.
gailgrove   [May 14, 2012 at 05:29 PM]
I think I have seen some gas lights downtown Toronto somewhere, they are of course only decorative and don't light up anything. And yes those are the lights.
joe_347V   [May 15, 2012 at 05:54 AM]
Hmm now that you brought them up I think I saw some decorative gas lights on King in Toronto a few years ago but I can't seem to find them now.

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