Can anyone give me information as to how the wires were attached to these Hemingray-25's?

The following is my first reply to my question. I would still like to see one of these instualed

25's were used extensively in the Naval housing built around WW2 in the Seattle area. The secondary through wires were carried in bright pink Magville-62's at the Rainier Valley location where we did most of our picking, while the house drops were all hung on three-point brackets covered in 25's. This was all "openwire", strung with heavy copper, wrapped in the cloth and tar insulation. Each insulator carried several wires, going to different buildings, and the $#@! lineman used a reverse-wrap tie (no tie wire), making the job of plucking the glass a real nightmare. As if removing a single wired reverse-wrap isn't a bitch enough, multiply by three, five, or seven !

The Magtons were a cinch, but were not as exotic as the 25's. We got both on any given mission, but the housing was now "the projects" and everything had to be done under cover of darkness, meaning we were hanging out in "the projects" at night with Duh-rell and J-mo and all their homies. No one ever got shot, but we had some interesting moments !

We were lucky to get $5 for either of these insulators in 1978, so looking back on it, it really was stupid to be doing what we did. Linemen was impervious to the beer wrench back then ..... besides, to a teenage kid, acquiring fuel for the beer wrench was a bigger challenge than undoing reverse-wraps ! Disirregardlessly, I wish now that we had foregone the insulators and just taken pictures.

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