When the sun goes down, the lights come on in the city, as they have for years.  Here is a look at some survivors of the early days of city street lighting in Baltimore.
	Long gone are the gas lamps, but a suprisingly refreshing number of their immediate replacements still linger on, most in ornamental service, but others abandoned.
	Pity the poor Ghost Hunter who assumes that the suburbs are devoid of unique and interesting artifacts.  Stumbling onto the Uptown Spherolites changes that attitude.
	Another Baltimore County example of perserverance regards a number of old GE and Westinghouse streetlights that still remain in service in the present day.
	A number of old street lights have found new life on the grounds of several area churches.  This page offers a view of some of these resurrected survivors.
	Century old lamp posts remain in service in the Monumental City, though converted to conventional lamp heads.  A look at the dazzling varieties of the great craftmanship of these poles.
	Here and there, todays streetlight makers pay homage to the look of the past.  Here's a glance at a few of these throwbacks  seen about the Monumental City.