First off, this post was supposed to appear on Friday. It wasn’t until late Saturday afternoon before I realized that I hadn’t scheduled it properly… So.. I’m sorry to everyone who came by on Friday and ended up seeing nothing new…
Now on to the post…
One of my favourite little bits of history are these utility poles along Tecumseh Road East. You’ll find them between Howard and Ouellette, mostly on the north side of the street.
Some are in better shape than others, but they’re very cool, and they all feature a little pineapple finial on the top. They all date back to about the mid 1920s.
I hope everyone had a great weekend.
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The little pineapple at the top is very cool they actually look better than some of the modern concrete hydro poles you see though out the city leaning to one side,if my eyes aren't fooling me the cement pole in the first photo has a slight list
I don't think I've noticed them before, but I will now.
Neat. I've noticed the poles before, but never the pineapple.
Yup....history right under our noses. I've never noticed these poles before either...from the 1920's?? wow, I'm surprise they haven't been replaced by now.
My wife and I found out when we went to Salem, that the pineapple sculptures that people have used for centuries was originally meant to symbolize welcome and hospitality. It goes back to when pineapples had to be imported, and were extremely expensive, so giving a guest pineapple was offering them your best.
A post about posts
When did they start using comcrete polls? I don't think they put them in new anymore. They were probably pretty expensive.
I was on this corner this afternoon and totally forgot to look at the old poles
Speaking of utilities, what's also cool are the old style manhole covers that were lettered to describe the subterranean services that lurked below. I can't say that I've ever noticed them in Windsor, but where I work in Michigan within a few steps of each other covers labelled for Detroit Edison, the local water department and AT&T Bell System. Given the age of the suburb where I work, they are probably about 65 years old.
Tecumseh rd West not east