Seattle and environs, WA
24 Jul 2023
Not in Seattle, but part of the Hwy99 - Evergreen Way corridor, these corncobbed 4-bolt OV20s are south of Everett at 49th St.
24 Jul 2023
Parking lots are at the time of writing (Mar 2024) just about the only place to see vintage fixtures like these, almost all the roadway survivors having been replaced years ago.
15 May 2005
RemovedChecked on "as of" date (either in person or via latest GSV available), removal happened as late as that date or before
as of 2006
This solitary monster sat on a parking lot on Aurora Ave. (Hwy99), north of Seattle at 135th St. It's been identified as a Sylvania GBB "Acre-Of-Light" from an 1967 Sylvania catalogue. It would have been fitted with 4 * 1kW mercury or metal halide. As far as I know, it didn't work.
It was removed not long after these pics were taken, an apartment complex was put on this site sometime in 2006.
15 May 2005
22 Jul 2019
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 22 Jul 2019
14 years later, and a look at the area around the same Aurora Ave intersection shows a lot has changed, but some old parking lot lighting still survives.
To try and give an idea of where this fixture is compared to the location of the Sylvania in the top two pics on this page- the Sylvania is behind and to the left, from the viewpoint of these two latest pics.
This fixture is a Wide-Lite Mercury "4000", cat. number F-4000-ALB. It and its matching 3-leg pole is hanging on despite another apartment block being built (left of pic) on the parking lot it once lit. These are remote ballast fixtures, the ballasts in a box at the pole base. If you look at the fullsize pic on the right, you can see some of the 1kW mercury lamps are clear ended ones. Also, it is shaped like an octagonal doughnut, with a hole in the middle. Unknown if it still works, but hope springs eternal...
22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019
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
A little further north up Aurora, and this is a parking lot of a former bank building at N 155 St & Westminster Way N. A Revere 5442 Ultra-Lite fixture, and if you get the fullsize version of the RH Pic, you'll see off in the distance poles that used to have the same fixtures, but which now sport shoebox fixtures. This was a former Sears parking lot. This Revere is the only one left. It has not been seen working recently.
22 Jul 2019