Los Angeles, Torrance CA, Mast Arm Street Light

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted November 29, 2011

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Photo taken during May 1966 near the intersection of Cabrillo Avenue and 237th Street. The street light fixture you see here was an incandescent and operated within a 6.6 ampere street series lighting loop. All of the pole-line architecture you see was owned by the Southern California Edison Company. These old lights were removed many years ago in favor of more energy-efficient mercury and high pressure sodium luminaires. The mastarms could still remain...

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