FIRE ALARM LAMP HOLDER, Flushing

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I’ll miss these when they are gone. Scrolled metal shafts like these used to hold fire alarm indicator lamps on telephone poles in three boroughs of New York City (I’ve never seen them in Manhattan or Staten Island). The light bulb at the end usually was covered by a silo-shaped orange plastic diffuser (supplanting the [...]

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