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The brilliance of these lights is that they signal the traffic even if you are going the wrong way down the street! In San Francisco, you couldn't say you weren't warned. |
Vintage
Traffic Signals from the 1930s-1950s are disappearing with progress.
The TV series Streets of San Francisco
and The Lineup are excellent archives
of these details and other street acoutrement such as police
call boxes, phone
booths, phone
booths, and train switches. San
Francisco is itself a work of art. Mister SF's photo series marks
the death of a small detail, perhaps. But, as with all great art, every
brush stroke matters. |
Copyright 2004 Hank Donat |