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Old 09-09-2018, 07:40 PM
Tim R. Tim R. is offline
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Originally Posted by NowhereMan 1966 View Post
Yeah, we did, I know some areas in Pittsburgh that had it until the 1990's. I remember driving my grandmother at the time and she said that she "remembers those old streetlights from the time when she was a little girl." (she was born in 1912) IIRC, I remember seeing some of them in the older Robinson/Kennedy Township areas, McKees Rocks and West End in the Western side of the Pittsburgh area.

It looked a lot like the pic I posted below.

Pasadena, CA and some parts of Detroit still have this kind of lighting today. IIRC it’s series-string lighting.
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