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Originally Posted by blackcat23
Not exactly noirish, but somewhat related.
This was posted on the Wilshire Grand project's facebook page today. Described as "dismantling a vintage street lamp."
Around when were these installed, if anyone knows? |
blackcat: These lamps were known as the Wilshire Specials, installed from downtown to Fairfax in the late '20s in conjunction with the widening of the boulevard and the moving of utilities underground. See
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13148 but there are a number of posts on them--just do a search with "Wilshire Specials" or "Wilshire Special" (using quotes) in the search box. Most are gone but many do still stand in the stretch of WB from about Figueroa to MacArthur Park.