Milwaukee, WI
November 2023, April 2013
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as of Nov 2023
Not actually in the city of Milwaukee, this is West Allis, and there are a couple of neighbourhoods to the east of I-41 that are lit with low pressure sodium, in GE cobraheads. They are 35W, and look like an official GE offering, although I couldn't confirm that GE did offer an official LPS lamp option for these fixtures. The city will have to replace these soon as LPS lamps aren't being made any more (2023) and they are getting by with the stock they still have.
The location here is the 2900 block of S 96 St.
Another neighbouring street, a very strange sight to see in the US.
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as of Nov 2023
10 years on from when the other pic was taken, we got back there at night to find the scene largely unchanged. 2 out of the 3 OV20s were working, and mercury to boot.
This is the Chase bank at S 16th & W Greenfield just outside downtown.
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as of mid 2019
There are other Milwaukee pics on the Chicaloland pages, but here are a few more.
This is the way Milwaukee does its overhead series wiring. The isolation ballast is enclosed in their own custom housing, and the fixture in this case is 250W mercury.
Here is a pic grabbed at a stoplight of some OV20s with the old style rounded refractor, atop what is now a bank.
This scale model of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a local landmark, of interest here is the various states of colour shift of the MH lighting.
As can be seen above, there is still quite a bit of mercury lighting around in Milwaukee, here's some of it at night.