Fluorescent streetlights
Streetlights like these two once graced the main streets in Minot from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, when they were replaced en masse with 'cobra head' HPS luminaries.
They put out a decent amount of light from spring to fall, but when exposed to the bitter cold of a northern North Dakota winter, they did struggle to produce enough light.
This pair was one of the very last such luminaries still in use in Minot, serving a second life in the Oak Park mini-mall parking lot, but they apparently came down later that year or the next as new light poles were in place the next time I wandered into that part of town a couple years later.
Fluorescent streetlights
Streetlights like these two once graced the main streets in Minot from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, when they were replaced en masse with 'cobra head' HPS luminaries.
They put out a decent amount of light from spring to fall, but when exposed to the bitter cold of a northern North Dakota winter, they did struggle to produce enough light.
This pair was one of the very last such luminaries still in use in Minot, serving a second life in the Oak Park mini-mall parking lot, but they apparently came down later that year or the next as new light poles were in place the next time I wandered into that part of town a couple years later.