the shoebox is not gross to me...it's just a boring plain design that's just bleh,and what makes it worse is the color...brown is the color of something we won't mention.
i think even the most boring cobrahead is alot more exciting than a Shoebox...even a durastar has more character!
Those aren't really labeled as brown, but labeled as bronze, really.....the shoeboxes became very common and considered "modern" in the mid to late 70s. They became popular use as downtown lights along with boxy poles for traffic light systems as well (with squared framing part of poles around traffic lights) and some did take over cities.....Those still seems to be common for parking lot lights, but instead of bronze colors in my area seems to be grey or white colors. For public roads and downtowns, those aren't so common anymore, now days its the tear drop and decorative designs, like the olden days...One of the first cities I have sorta seen replace shoeboxes with teardrops (fairly early) is Silver Spring Down town that replaced HPS shooeboxes and HPS squarish sphere clear glass posttops with those Atlanta Style teardrops with MH and MH acorn posttops....And to make this interesting...each teardrops had its own photocells!
if it bothers you that much i'll quit.
@niall yeah a BIG truck!
Speaking of cars makes me remember that 1988 Dodge Aries my parents had when I was 6 LOL.
EDIT: Darn Joe stole me the 50th comment! :C
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the shoebox is not gross to me...it's just a boring plain design that's just bleh,and what makes it worse is the color...brown is the color of something we won't mention.
i think even the most boring cobrahead is alot more exciting than a Shoebox...even a durastar has more character!