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| Portland
General Electric Co. power pole across from my house where I found my
first insulator in 1948. |
West
Coast Telephone Co, pole with 16 pin crossarm in 1956. |
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| Portland
Traction Co. Inter-Urban Trolley at stop near my grade school.
Tall cedar poles at left had 57,000, 11,000, 2,400 and 120/240
volt lines. Poles on right had 600 volt D.C. trolley feeder and
signal and phone lines. Nothing remains today except for the two
buildings on the right. |
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| Mountain
States Power Co. pole in Bay City, Oregon using M-2430 multiparts. The
line crew there would give me all the multipart insulators that we could
haul away. This pole was a grown locally cedar and full of knots. |
Old
line in Oregon using scarce gray Thomas M-3158
multiparts. Photo taken by me in 1953 at age 12. |
