Fluorescent street lighting

[Tim R.]

Originally Posted by NowhereMan 1966

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.

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by Tim R.

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

I also saw a similar streetlamp on a bridge in Steubenville, Ohio although it looks more updated.

[MIPS]

This thread is quite old now but I'm bumping it purely to enlighten Telecolor.
Here is a 1963 catalog from General Electric listing the specifications on their then modern street lighting, including fluorescent.

https://www.scribd.com/document/3316...g-Catalog-1963

Scribd link, sorry. You should be able to see the entire thing at least once before it nags you to register.

Note that the most powerful lamp they list is the Form 606. It's an 8 foot long 100lb+ monster that takes SIX 230w Very High Output tubes and ran so hot it came standard with active cooling. Power consumption is somewhere around 1200W and provides roughly 65000 lumens of light output.


http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-10671

General Electric was a very normal supplier in North America, so a lot of the products in that catalog will be recognized by a few people here