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Scans from Street & Highway Lighting

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The following scans come from issues of Street and Highway Lighting, 1962-1965. The date is listed in the description, along with the fixture types so that the search facility on this site can find them.
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This GE ad is from 1962, Q2 and shows the M-250R and some of the first insallations.

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q2.
Hapco metal poles and GE Form 400s.

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q2.
L-M Industries (Line Material) Unistyle fixtures.

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q2.
Union Metal aluminium poles and Westinghouse OV-20s on the Dallas-Fort Worth turnpike.

June 2025: This is what is now Interstate 30 HOV and whilst most of this is now lit with himast, there are some of these old U-M poles left on what are now frontage roads, with LED fixtures installed.

as of Jun 2019
Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q3.
American Concrete poles with Westinghouse Silverliner and GE NEMA head gumball fixtures.

June 2025: I found the address of one of these pics (the bottom left one) and amazingly that pole is still there, 62 years on. It's located in the Hedge Hills area of East Memphis (TN) on N Goodlett St at S Walnut Grove Circle. There is a multiple wired cobrahead rather than the gumball in the picture, but the pole and arm are the same.

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q3.
Corning glassware with what looks like GE and Westinghouse gumball fixtures.

June 2025: Fulton St now only exists as a small stub east of Center Way in Corning, as the entrance to the Guthrie Corning Centerway Internal Medicine hospital building. The road alignment has been changed, and the Corning Museum of Glass is now on the right of the 1963 pic. The view is looking west on what is now Museum Way.

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q3.
GE's Lumitran system with integrated transformers, switching, and luminaires- shown here are the PMA-115 posttop, the M-250R and their residential linear fluorescent fixture PMF-104A. There is no evidence this system ever made it past the prototype stage, this advert tacitly admits that it is specualtive. Even though it was marketed in conjunction with the Medallion Homes campaign, I've never seen a Medallion development that had Lumitran components. They usually have conventional pad mounted transformers and streetlights on separate poles.

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q3.
Holophane glassware for the L-M Unistyle fixture.

June 2025: Local sources tell me these fixtures were probably removed by the 1980s. However 5 of them survive to this day, installed perhaps as surplus from the Century 21 fair, in one of the eastern parking lots of the Evergreen State Fairgrounds at Monroe. Exactly how they got there, is lost in the mists of time.

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q3.
The L-M 'Styled Mercury' range, consisting of the Stylevue, Stylair (single & twin), and Dyad. Very high-tech and in keeping with the Seattle 'Century 21' fair, which was the Seattle World's fair of 1962.

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q3.
Some of Revere's range. The Series 2700 Superoval, the Seires 2600 Unitised Endoval, the Series 2500 Urbanoval (remote ballast), and 2500 Endoval (integral ballast). Also the Series 2320 Star-Lux OBR (open bottom refractor).

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q3.
Tabet photocontrols (distributed by L-M).

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q3.
Union Metal poles, and some GE M-400s.

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q3.
Westinghouse OV-12.

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q4.
American Electric Barn light! 175W mercury, integral ballast.

Street and Highway Lighting 1962, Q4.
Holophane Refractors.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q1.
American Electric Style 13-000 for 100-250W mercury lamps.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q1.
Holophane refractor- for American Electric Style 13-000, 100-250W mercury lamps.

Street & Highway Lighing 1963 Q1.
Pemco Brightway Jr.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q1.
Union Metal steel, concrete and aluminium poles. Looks like they had bought out American Concrete by this point.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q1.
Westinghouse MO-10 open bottom Silverliner for 100-175W mercury.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q2.
According to this ad, American Electric 13-000 glassware can be used on GE or L-M fixtures too...

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q2.
Corning glassware- that's a neat delta shaped fixture!

June 2025: I had a look to see if any of these fixtures survived the years. Click to see the results.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q2.
Lots of GE fixtures- their L-69A base-up incandescent flood (for 1500W PS-52 lamps), the PMA-115 post top, PMF-104A fluorescent in use at the 1962 Seattle World's fair, QF-1500 halogen flood (hi-tech for the day), A-4000 Powerglow mercury, PMC-116 'Colonial' post top, P-1000 'Powerflood' mercury flood.
The L-69A flood was mainly for incandescent, but catalogs of the time do mention to "contact factory" for HID lamp info. It's possible the unnamed mercury floodlights mentioned above at the Alma Golf course were in fact L-69A fitted with mercury lamps.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q2.
Revere making a big deal out of their OBR barn light- still available in 1963 with 4000 or 6000lm multiple incandescent, or 100-250W mercury.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q2.
Union Metal poles, and various luminaires- GE Form 400, GE M-1000 (these are possibly the poles that stand to this day round LAX's Theme building, albeit with different fixtures nowadays), and GE L-69A flood for 1500W base up PS-52 incandescent lamps.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q3.
American Electric's bigger fixture- the Style 15-000 for 400W lamps.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q3.
American Concrete still advertising separately, but as a division of Union Metal. A nice installation with GE Form 400s.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q3.
A Pemco MHE with Corning glassware. This looks identical to the Brightway Jr but can take a 400W lamp.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q3.
GE's 'Retire the Relics' campaign- the M-100 and M-250R are namechecked, it's nice to hear mercury lamps being called modern!

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q3.
Hapco poles with (I think) GE 101-D gumball fixtures.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q3.
Holophane refractors.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q3.
The L-M StyleKing post top being sold as a retrofit for old concrete poles. According to the ad, they could take 400W mercury or 10000lm incandescent!

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q3.
Revere Series 2600 Endoval.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q3.
Tabet photocontrols.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q3.
Tork photocontrols.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q3.
Westinghouse Lifeguard mercury lamps.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q4.
Joslyn luminaires with Corning glassware.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q4.
Pemco MHE.

Street and Highway Lighting 1963, Q4.
Westinghouse Viscount for 100-250W mercury.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q1.
Corning glassware for Westinghouse OV-15, Joslyn 400W and L-M.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q1.
Superior refractors for barnlights! Courtesy of Holophane...

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q1.
Westinghouse Promenade post top for up to 400W mercury, or 10000lm incandescent.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q2.
Holophane mercury wallpack luminaires. Note the cost comparison- VHO fluorescents come out most expensive!

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q2.
Union Metal poles with Westinghouse OV-25 Silverliner fixtures.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q3.
AE 15, 13 and OBR fixtures. (Style 15-000, Style 13-000).

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q3.
Another ad from the GE 'Retire the Relics' campaign- a M-400 in the background.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q3.
Another ad from the GE 'Retire the Relics' campaign- featured are the M-250R (175W), M-400, M-1000, Custom M-1000 Whiteway, Custom M-2000 Whiteway, PMA-115, PMC-116 post tops,

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q3.
Hapco poles.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q3.
Holophane open bottom refractors.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q3.
L-M (Line Material) Dusk-to-Dawner luminaire for 100-250W mercury, being sold as an alternative to barn lights.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q3.
Westinghouse mercury lamps.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q4.
American Concrete poles.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q4.
GE Powr/Bracket-400 fixture.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q4.
Hapco poles.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q4.
Holophane glassware and what I think is an OV-25, remote ballast version.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q4.
L-M Stylette and StyleKing luminaires. Stylette for up to 405W incandescent, StyleKing for up to 400W mercury, 630W (10000lm) incandescent.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q4.
Tabet Photocontrols.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q4.
Pemco 'Horizontal mercury luminaire'. 100-250W mercury.

Street and Highway Lighting 1964, Q4.
Westinghouse Viscount open bottom mercury fixture, 100-250W mercury.

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q1.
Holophane refractors for suspended luminaires.

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q1.
L-M Stylaire Dyad fixtures in downtown Lansing, MI. In a return to the past, the downtown area currently (2019) has reproductions of the pre-1962 mercury system installed, twin acorn style fixtures.

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q1.
A Tabet photocontrol on a L-M Dusk-to-Dawner. Tabet were distributed by Line Material.

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q1.
Redesigned Westinghouse OV-25 Silverliner.(but not referred to as such here).

as of Mar 2025
Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q2.
'That man's real small, ain't he Bob?'
Unintentional humour in a GE 'Switch to modern mercury' ad.

June 2025: That twin arm pole is still outside the entrance to the Piedmont Community Hall on Highland Ave as of Mar 2025 and had drop lens (probably HPS) fixtures until early 2015.

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q2.
A 2-page spread for the L-M 'Dusk-to-Dawner' 100-250W mercury luminaire. They are rare these days, so it looks like all the advertising didn't pay off.

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q2.
Westinghouse Lifeguard mercury lamps.

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q3.
Another one in the GE 'Retire the Relics' campaign. How he's managing to hold that M-400 casually with one hand is beyond me!

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q3.
Holophane open bottom refractors.

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q3.
L-M Traditional Lawn-Glo for 100W mercury. Note the BT lamp in the fixture on the bottom left.

as of May 2025
Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q4.
GE M-1000 on double brackets. Interesting they are not usually called brackets in the US any more, whereas in the UK the term is still used.

June 2025: There are many of these twin arm setups on the concrete poles left in the St Louis CBD as of May this year, they have sported LED fixtures since 2022. Before that, they had HPS GE M-400 luminaires. No word on when the M-1000 mercuries in the 1965 picture here were retired.

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q4.
GE M-250R, M-400, M-1000, Custom M-1000 Whiteway, PMA-115 residential, PMC-116 residential.

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q4.
The L-M residential range- Traditional Lawn-Glo, Contemporary Lawn-Glo (several styles), Stylette post top, and Dusk-to-Dawner.

Street and Highway Lighting 1965, Q4.
Westinghouse OV-15.

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