Whoa This Guy Has 1960s Street Lights!

Passed by this house in Foster, Rhode Island last week and noticed there's TWO early 60s Westinghouse OV-10IBs on this property! The other is hidden from view. Looks like they're installed on aluminum poles with wood pole mounting arms attached to the metal poles. The mounting arm on this light appears to be a typical early 90s mounting arm used by Narragansett Electric, the power company at the time. My guess is that the owner of this house back in the 90s worked for NECo and saved these during the 1992-1994 HPS takeover and snagged a brand new arm while he was at it and somehow got a pair of aluminum poles too, probably used and retired from use.

I would LOVE to drop by and make the current home owner an offer on these. I'll have to drive by at night a few times over a couple months and see if these are used at night. If they're not used I'm seriously considering offering the homeowner money to allow me to remove the two street lights. Of course, the person might want the entire poles removed. I'd love a couple of metal light poles but my parents wouldn't want them stored in the yard and I'd need to rent a flatbed truck (and driver) to drive them a half hour to my house. Of course, those sort of rentals probably come with a minimum too (for instance, 4 hour rental minimum) so they get lots of $.

Plus I'd need to rent a lift to remove the lights and arms before I remove the poles. Removing the poles is easy, just a big wrench with a long pipe shoved on it for leverage and remove four nuts. Guiding the pole to fall a certain way would be necessary and could be done by attaching a piece of rope at the top of the pole when I remove the lights. A second guy would tug on the rope while I remove the nuts at the base. These poles are aluminum and surprisingly lightweight. About 100 pounds for a 25ft pole.

Being NECo lights, these would be 175W MV, 120V, as that's all they used with these lights.

On the other hand, the owner might want me to only replace the lights, not remove the poles (if they'd even agree to anything, which the chances of any agreement are next to none) so I'd need to provide replacements, which should be easy. I could just get an empty cobrahead and stick a large CFL in it or buy a cheap yard light on eBay or something (they already have a yardblaster on that carport covering the trailer).

Unlikely I'd make any progress and unlikely I'll even approach these people but it gives me something to at least thing about lol.