Streetlights in Ontario...Back in the Day.

[Mike]

Wow. That's an ironic sight right there. Now the cobraheads are beign phased out up there for highmasts, right?

[joe_347V]

A lot changed over the years eh?

Here's another cool pic, although I forgot the exact location where it was taken. (I think somewhere in Scarborough on maybe Eglinton?)

[Mike]

Sweet! Here's an ad for a Providence teardrop. There's a better shot in my gallery.

*Credit to Joe Maurath for the pic.

[joe_347V]

Here's some more clamshells, complete with old signals and shovel lights.

Eglinton and Midland, April 1960

[Form109]

these pictures make my mouth water.

Goodness.

[Mike]

Sweet. Look at those nice arms and old fashioned Coca-Cola signs.
Here, you can see an old rusty arm with a 250w HPS M-250R2. There are a few of these around. More are aluminum braced upsweeps. Anyways, you can see a remote ballast can. There was either a Form 109 or OV20 on this pole at one point!

[joe_347V]

Here we a have picture of the west end of Toronto (the intersection of Weston and Lawrence) in the 1960s, check out the neon DONT WALK ped signal on the right hand side.

[Mike]

We have some of those ped signals still lying around here.

[joe_347V]

All of the old worded peds were gone (at least here) by the mid 70s having been replaced by the symbols and incandescent dual section ones.

[Mike]

They're mostly disconnected though. Most liky the lamps died. As intersections are upgraded, the new peds are symbols and non-pixelated.

[joe_347V]

Here's some more clamshells, it's the same interchange where the B2215s were being installed.

[Mike]

  More clamshells! Oh boy! I can Imagine what North America looked like in the 50's-80's..........

[joe_347V]

Ontario mostly used clamshells and gumballs back in the 50s and early 60s.

[joe_347V]

I guess I should get a night scene of this eh?

[Mike]

Yes! please do!