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Broadway looking west towards Downtown Buffalo OK folks, here we have a whole pile of silver finned M-1000s. and if you look further up, OV-50s, and even further up, incandescents. The Broadway-Fillmore area of Buffalo was replete with 1000-watt mercury lights until the first wave of HPS relighting during the early 1980s. Photo credit Joe Casico. Now, what do I mean by relighting "waves"? OK, the first wave of relighting occurred between 1979 and 1983 and replaced most of the series incandescent and mercury lights through retrofit or reconstruction. The second wave occurred between 1985 and 1990 and involved mostly multiple mercs and incandescent posttops replaced with HPS posttops. The third wave occurred between 1991 to 1995 and replaced any remaining mercs and incandescent including a stretch of Main St. from Amherst St. to Winspear Ave. Keywords: American_Streetlights

Broadway looking west towards Downtown Buffalo

OK folks, here we have a whole pile of silver finned M-1000s. and if you look further up, OV-50s, and even further up, incandescents. The Broadway-Fillmore area of Buffalo was replete with 1000-watt mercury lights until the first wave of HPS relighting during the early 1980s. Photo credit Joe Casico. Now, what do I mean by relighting "waves"? OK, the first wave of relighting occurred between 1979 and 1983 and replaced most of the series incandescent and mercury lights through retrofit or reconstruction. The second wave occurred between 1985 and 1990 and involved mostly multiple mercs and incandescent posttops replaced with HPS posttops. The third wave occurred between 1991 to 1995 and replaced any remaining mercs and incandescent including a stretch of Main St. from Amherst St. to Winspear Ave.

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rjluna2   [Jan 21, 2016 at 12:32 PM]
The newest model year automobile I can find is 1965 Confused
vintagelites   [Jan 23, 2016 at 05:25 AM]
That was some serious whiteway lighting folks ! Check out the short spacing. Back when power was cheap and plentiful.
NiMo   [Jan 24, 2016 at 01:58 AM]
And I'm betting that since further down on either side were incandescents, these bad boys were series luminaires. There were also OV50s on Fillmore, but they were multiples.
NiMo   [Jan 30, 2016 at 02:37 AM]
Folks, here's a tough one for you. Can anyone here tell me what type of arm these poles have (I know the answer)?
streetlight98   [Jan 30, 2016 at 02:40 PM]
Either curved truss or underbraced upsweep?
NiMo   [Jan 30, 2016 at 03:34 PM]
Neither. This style is called a "Pendant" and has been the mainstay for streetlights in the City of Buffalo for many decades, as well as outlying areas such as N. Tonawanda, City of Lackawanna, and a couple in Batavia. Basically, you have the Simplex fitting on the feeder arm and the undersupport is welded to the feeder and fastened with two bolts and backing plate. There is also a brace in between the two arms.
streetlight98   [Jan 30, 2016 at 03:42 PM]
Ah we have similar poles here in Rhode Island. The ones here are from the 1950s and all held Form 109s originally. They're aluminum too, so they'll last forever as long as they don't get hit by drunks. The ones here do not have a brace between the mast arm and the underbrace.
NiMo   [Jan 30, 2016 at 04:54 PM]
The only thing is those aluminum versions won't support the weight of a 1000 watt luminaire like the steel welded ones will.
streetlight98   [Jan 30, 2016 at 06:45 PM]
Oh sure they will. I don't recommend it but it will hold. In downtown Providence, they had "upgraded" many of the 400W MV Form 109s on these poles to 1000W MV M-1000s. I've never actually seen an M-1000 left today in person (seen pics of them in use back in the late 70s/early 80s), but These M-400R2s are 400W HPS, suggesting M-1000s were used on this street. Most of those Form 109 poles were replaced from various city projects where the city has been reconfigured but a few of them exist here-and-there. The link in my last comment is the largest installation of them left, where the only replacements have been pole knock-downs.

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