If you look closely there also is a local distribution transformer above the incandescent street light in this photo. The transformer most likely converted 1,100V or 2,200V on its primary side to 100 or 110V for customers. Those transformers were made of cast iron and were very heavy! Unfortunately owing to increased electrical demand via transformer upgrades through the years (and vivid scrap drives) during the war and depression years, all of this museum-quality electrical-distribution metal is all but extinct.

Anyway....all of the wires crisscrossing on this pole look surely like they were for local electric distribution.

I love the pointed-roofed buliding in the background, too!