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DIYer on October 22, 2006 - 12:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
In relocalization news, the neighborhood next to mine has just dug up all their gas lamps. The builder had installed gas lights for street lighting in the development (about 6 or 8 'square blocks'? -- curvy suburban streets and cul-de-sacs aren't square) back in 1999 and they were so, so quaint. Every time a kid would hit one of the poles with a basketball, the mantles would break and when a car hit one, the whole thing would be smashed and leaking gas. That and the neighborhood association had to pay for the gas to be on 24/7/365, I presume.

They're probably going to install electric lights like we have. We got the faux-gas-lamp look in our electric street lights for a slight premium over the city standard, galvanized steel poles. And the city pays for the electricity; it doesn't go through our meters.

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fleam on October 22, 2006 - 4:46pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
is that in San Diego or in the Phoenix area? I know a few areas have set up what they called "gas lamp" or "gas light" districts, walking-friendly and supposed to rejuvenate dead downtown areas, this was big in the late 90s.

Have they finally realized gaslight went out of style because better things came along?

I can just see the "LED light district" someday lol......

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DIYer on October 22, 2006 - 7:23pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Yeah, or they could use those neon fake flame lights. You know, the bulb has a flame-shaped electrode and allows just barely enough current to light the neon with a flickering effect?

I hate those things...

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DIYer on October 22, 2006 - 7:24pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
is that in San Diego or in the Phoenix area?

And no, it's just a McBurb at the northwest corner of Austin. It was built in '98-'99.

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