Playa del Rey, CA
Taken Setember 2011, September 2014
SurvivingChecked on "as of" date (either in person or via latest GSV available), so can be assumed to be surviving at least as far as that date
as of Jul 2019 but retrofitted to multiple wired LED
This is a great example of a series string that has hung on far longer than expected, especially given its location.
We're on Vista del Mar at Dockweiler State Beach, the ocean is on the left and we're looking north. This is right next to the end of the runways at LAX, you can see the 'LAWA' mark on the trash can on the sidewalk. However this is actually Playa del Rey, not Westchester as the border between the two is Pershing Dr (off to the right).
There are a dozen or so acorns along this run, and at various times they have been HPS retrofits, or incandescent, or both. They change often as due to the location they are subject to vandalism. Of late (June 2014) they have been reverting to incandescent, possibly because there is a shortage of HPS series retrofit kits for post top fixtures, and the only other option the BSL has is to use one of the their rapidly declining stock of series incandescent lamps.
Pic on the right shows the work to repair the loop, which was done at the same time as other works along this stretch of road.
Update 2018: Sometime towards the end of 2016, this series loop was converted to multiple. The acorns and poles are still there, but now have LED retrofits as the light source.
Pics above taken Sep 2014.
A dusk view of one HPS, one incandescent. Also an arty shot of an incandescent, and an interesting bit of street necrology. The street in the background is E Ipswich St, and is part of a neighborhood called Surfridge that was laid out before the expansion in use of LAX. It now is right in the path of the southern runway 07L/25R. The whole neighborhood was gradually razed between the late 1950s- when jets started to use LAX and the noise became unbearable- and the 1970s.
This also explains why this loop is where it is and why there are short poles with acorns. The whole of Surfridge was lit like this as shown in old pictures, indeed some of the abandoned poles can still be seen from Vista Del Mar. The remaining series loop was for the poles that were at the entrances to the neighborhood from Vista Del Mar, and was left as it was despite that stretch not being residential any more after the houses were demolished or moved.
A dusk view of one HPS, one incandescent. Also an arty shot of an incandescent, and an interesting bit of street necrology. The street in the background is E Ipswich St, and is part of a neighborhood called Surfridge that was laid out before the expansion in use of LAX. It now is right in the path of the southern runway 07L/25R. The whole neighborhood was gradually razed between the late 1950s- when jets started to use LAX and the noise became unbearable- and the 1970s.
This also explains why this loop is where it is and why there are short poles with acorns. The whole of Surfridge was lit like this as shown in old pictures, indeed some of the abandoned poles can still be seen from Vista Del Mar. The remaining series loop was for the poles that were at the entrances to the neighborhood from Vista Del Mar, and was left as it was despite that stretch not being residential any more after the houses were demolished or moved.
