Boston Vicinity, c.1910. Close View of Busy Utility Pole Top in Town Square.

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted September 8, 2020

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Fire alarm circuits ran along the top on the added poletop extension viewed here. This was a rather common method of stringing wires on tops of poles through at least 1910.

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