1900’s lighting here

I was asked to install a bicycle rental station for tours here in the historical village I live.
I was concerned about security lighting at the area. I found this 1900’s street lamp laying in one of the buildings and decided to refurbish it. It’s made by Union Metal in Canton Oh.
They made about 70% of the street lamps in the US during that period.
I just wish I had more to install in front of this old Hotel.
New wiring, LED bulb. And quite a bit of body work and welding.

 

Very nice. Excellent work. There will be some extra stars in your crown.

 

Nice work!

 

Thanks. It’s a rough job I have but someone has to do it.

 

way to restore and actually put back into service, great job.

 

Hope you don't mind us adding our 1900s lighting to your post. We have been lucky to acquire 6 of these lights over several years. We placed 4 lights along our 600 foot driveway and then 2 more in the yard. They were used throughout downtown Springfield, IL in the early 1900s. One of these cast iron street lights is marked "Illinois Foundry Co Springfield, ILL". The lights are 12 feet tall including the round globes. We have been wrapping the poles each Christmas for 25 years.

 

beautiful.

 

Great picture! its such a gorgeous scene , It looks like a postcard,

 

I read this thread this morning... I HAD planned on just a quick trip with the 32 to the hardware store to get the last quart of PINK paint for my kitchen.....but..noooooo, I ended up stopping at the scrap recycle place where they did have a repro light pole that got hit by something. It is snapped clean at the yellow arrow, at a factory weld. The top lights were missing, whatever it had? There are 4 bracket things facing upwards at the top.

I saw it kinda out of sight behind some aluminum ladders a month ago...and decided to see if it was still there today...now it is in my lot...tied to the trailer and both doodlebugs...It's a "guy thing"... ya just gotta see what it looks like upright.. right? 12 foot tall as shown without the top lights.

I guess I will do some multiple solar lights from Dollar General...maybe the ones that are like a crystal multi colored glass globe that changes colors every few seconds??

Also picked up the steel "Home Depot" type rack stuff for my "roof edge" elevated deck...see the spiral staircase against the far right side of the house? LOL...

 

Here’s an option for globes.
Be sure to get the white ones not the clear for an authentic look.
https://www.amazon.com/street-lamp-globe/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i:aps,k:street lamp globe

 

Wow, I had not even thought there would be replacements at this point. Thanks, I'm really looking forward to making it look right...the white frosted ones

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Some plastic globes are better than the other plastic ones.
You get what pay for.

 

tonight coming back from a car show, I went through UConn and saw where my light pole came from...
Perfect match to all the hundreds of new light poles put in a couple years ago at the "new" high rise end of campus.

I did go to two other towns the day I got the pole, but those lightpoles were way different. I had a gut feeling it was from UConn, which is in my town, so I guess I do have a future historical local artifact... LOL

Spotted an early Mustang with family out cruising on a perfect evening...and an MGA that I have seen parked there once before..

 

Shitty pic but I found these cool industrial fixtures with the green porcelain waffle shades. A bit different than the regular green ones

 

The last time I saw a waffle shade still being used since day one, was in Charlestown, Rhode Island at the Atlantic Ocean on a street light on a telephone pole in an old cottage section of town. I thought it was pretty cool, seeing it lit up at dusk. I always had an eye for cool & unusual things. That had to be almost 30 years ago, I bet it has been upgraded to modern lighting...or should I say..."downgraded".

thanks for reminding me of it...

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I remade the missing top part of the UConn lightpole I posted above in this thread.

I needed a round dome, fairly large...tried my biggest frying pan which did not look good, so I went to one of my sweet junkpiles and found a pressed tin Christmas Tree stand! Cut that up, then four 3/8" rods bent up to fit the base...then added the raised dome made from a pre-1966 VW bug hubcap with the mounting flange cut off. I do have top finials like the UConn ones have, that I had found while metal detecting old homesites....... but not shown here.

Then the white globe under the dome is from my former kitchen. I am glad I did not trash that light that looked like shit above my sink! LOL Kitchen now has all stained glass arts/crafts style lamps, and in the rest of the house..

The UConn lamps do not have that hanging white dome, they have a myriad of LEDs or whatever, under a flat lens. So, I may do 120v hardwired underground when I set it in the lawn, or...maybe some solar things that will at least let that white dome show up nice. It does not need to illuminate, as I do have a genuine Power Company lightpole in my lot.

^^above, the middle pic, was taken from on top of my outdoor spiral staircase that will be for my rooftop deck... soon, I hope...the Home Depot type rack steel is on the trailer...18 feet tall, ...just waiting on me...

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