Sodim Vapor Lights.

[MIKETOUHY]

Which is the kind of streetlighting Chicago uses and has for many years now. Though there was a time when they used to have white mercury vapor lights.


For those who lived in Chicago prior to the 70's do you like the bright yellow sodium lights or the mercury ones?

 

[Crystallas]

:dunno:

In the 70s, not prior too, so I can't say. Nor did I ever pay attention. All I know, is that the street lamp posts were green, and I would be a stupid kid, climbing to the top and sitting up there to showboat.

 

[MIKETOUHY]

Uh I didn't ask about the color of the lamp posts!

 

[Crystallas]

:dunno:

I remember crossing Archer, and tripping over the old street-car tracks. But the only sodium vapor lights that I remember, were under bridges and in some alleyways. If the street lamps were sodium vapor or mercury, I wouldn't have remembered, even though they were that bright orange/yellow. More often than not, if a light still worked on the place streets, some kids would find a way to break it with a baseball or rocks.


What's this about? Just being nostalgic?

 

[Nail Polish]

Archer Ave..Now that brings back memories.....Playing softball all day long at St Barbaras Schoolyard!