Ogunquit, ME 1943, Downtown, Old Cars, Utility Lines

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted April 14, 2014

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Early fog-type Lapp pintype insulators having three skirts in varying shades of mahogany (mostly bottom rest) were installed along primary circuits along Maine SR 1 around 1928-1930. These insulators were marked with manufacturing dates. They were bottom rest and mounted mostly on cedar or pine poles, some of which had a rather unusual "twist" to their appearance. This line stood until the early 1990s. For guy-wire insulators small 6-inch-diameter "Hewlett" porcelain insulators were employed instead of commonplace "johnny balls" and looked really neat spliced into spans that crossed famous Route 1 to old, tilited cedar guy poles on the other side. I'll bet you that is a small Hewlett above the road on a guy-span above the upper left side of this image.

This line (as seen along the left, with the forementioned Lapps) extended from the Maine/NH State Line through at least Kennebunkport, ME...a distance (along the coast) of about 20-25 miles.

Ogunquit is about 35 miles south (on the coast) of Portland, ME.

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