Functional Display Pole Left Side Crossarm View

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted July 26, 2008

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Photographed upon a 17 foot display pole along my driveway.... and I thought I'd do a lot of justice by showing the left side of the crossarm as well. The cobalt blue Hemingray (see previous pic) is on the opposite side of this crossarm.

On the left are is some old stuff. In the foreground a pumpkin signal (probably made by Locke) with old wire around it (non-functional, just display).

On the far left of this crossarm is what Pat Scott and I call a "Smokey Joe". These are CD 133 and CD 134 Hemingrays (and HG Co.'s) with lotsa old-time soot accumulated upon them (some with their original tie wire and pin) directly from the former St. Louis fire alarm system. Albiet damaged, these old-timers look great from a few feet or more away. Some still remain in place on older poles in STL after the system was abandoned in 1979 in favor of a wireless signalling system. It's neat to give one of these "Smokey Joe's" another life on an old pole, albeit one of my own. Thanks, Pat ;-)

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