Pickford, MI c.1920 Downtown, Snow, Electric and Phone Pole Lines

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted July 27, 2014

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Electric customers were served by the double-crossarm line along the left with a telephone openwire lead on the right. Note the two tall poles atop one of the buildings on the right. These stancions apparently supported wire antennae for radio transmission or reception. Let's hope this storm didn't knock any of this into the phone wires aside and beneath them!

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