Photo taken along Bridge Street, also known as Massachusetts SR 3A.

The 4kv construction seen here remained up until less than ten years ago when superceded by 13.8kv primary distribution and a lot of new poles. The roadway still looks similar. A Boston Edison coal-fired, brick electric plant is way in the background (hardly seen) which was a well-known local landmark, especially with the gold-plated lettering "Edison" proudly upon it. Through the 1980s Christmas lights lit the window-lined coal elevator in front of it, that was at about a 45-degree angle pitch. The plant was built around 1926 and torn down about a decade ago and replaced by a boring gas-fired one.

This always was a busy stretch of highway with two (former) WW2 shipyards (Quincy and Hingham, MA) right in between where this picture was taken. A big brass incandescent floodlight was mounted a lower crossarm on the pole on the left. For many years it illuminated the middle of this intersection whereby a police officer directed traffic via standing in a wooden box.

The utility serving this locale was the Weymouth Light and Power Company, founded in the late 1880s. The company became Massachusetts Electric about 1960.