Afternoon View Looking Down my Driveway with Display Pole Lines, Lights, After Snow

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted January 10, 2022

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All of the street light fixtures you see here are from the 1950s and earlier. Like openwire pole lines across North America, these fixtures are very rarely seen anywhere anymore. I have been building pole lines since about age 5. I started by using shade rollers as wooden poles and popsicle sticks for crossarms. Along with my mother's thread simulating open wire. That was a real long time ago! But one thing has not changed...and that is I have deeply enjoyed building personally designed openwire lines and poles in the backyards wherever I lived as a kid. In many respects, what I have done in recent years has become a tribute to pole-line Americana that is just about gone forever....

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