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| Retro
is always "hip." Take one look at the fashions and styles seen
about town, and you can find some vestige of nearly every decade.
From the baseball jersey designs of the 80's to hair styles that favor
the 50's. And lest us not forget the auto designs that harken
back to the 30's. But Streetlights? Of course! Even streetlights have come full circle in a weird ironic way... When you think about it, the whole concept of reproduction streetlights seems a bit ironic to say the least. It was not too long ago that the City was doing a wholesale conversion of its "obsolete" streetlights into newer, modern styles. The bulk of this conversion occurred from 1950 to 1967, when tens of thousands of gas and incandescent lights were scrapped, replaced by the streamlined styles prevalent today. By the 1980's however, nostalgic sentiments have witnessed a desire among many communities to make their communities look quainter, paricularly regarding street lighting. The result: a number of replica streetlight designs have surfaced, ranging from boxlights that seem more suited to an English village, to pseudo-Novalux lights that do not burn incandescently. While none of these lights are precise copies of any original fixtures seen about the area, they do at least provide a good bit of variety to the landscape. Following is a pictorial review of a few the different styles observed. I'D BE WILLING TO HEAR OF OTHERS. EMAIL ME!
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