Trolley service in Quincy continued until the 1940s; subsequently all of the remaining trolley service cables like you see here were removed.

By the teens many communities around here (in the Boston area) began to install/relocate their fire alarm circuits such that they were *below* the electric service wires and not *above* them. The pole on the right sports a white crossarm which identifies the city's fire alarm wires. For the most part they were painted white with "Fire Alarm" black-stenciled on them.

The cedar pole on the left stood with only minor changes to it until it was replaced in 2003. The pole on the right looks pretty new. The utility that served this city used a lot of cedar poles. They lasted for decades. Conversion to higher primary distribution voltages during recent decades did away with almost all of them.