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A test conducted on January 24, 2013 Opening on March 6, 2013 A time lapse image of Market Street, with The Bay Lights in the background. The Bay Lights was a site-specific monumental light sculpture and generative art installation on the western span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, designed to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its opening.
In New York, more than 1,600 oil lamps were in use as city street lights in 1809. [1] The city had started using spermaceti oil, which burned more brightly than candles, in its street lamps from as early as 1792. [1] Philadelphia was close behind during this period, with 1,100 street lamps. [1]
The electric light tower was proposed by J. J. Owen, publisher of the San Jose Mercury, the precursor of The Mercury News, as a way of lighting the entire center of San Jose on the "high light" principle, at less expense than gas street lighting. Owen was inspired by the electric lighting in San Francisco, the first in the world, which he had ...
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".
Market Street is a major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, and has carried in turn horse-drawn streetcars, cable cars, electric streetcars, electric trolleybuses, and diesel buses. Today Muni 's buses, trolleybuses, and heritage streetcars (on the F Market line) share the street, while below the street the two-level Market Street ...
Lighting at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, 1915, designed by Ryan, including the Scintillator searchlight display. Walter D'Arcy Ryan (Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 17, 1870 – Schenectady, New York, US, March 14, 1934) was an influential early lighting engineer who worked for General Electric as director of its Illuminating Engineering Laboratory.
The northern lights dazzled across California skies late Friday night — even as far south as Los Angeles County. The stunning nighttime display of pink and purple lights across the sky was ...
Urban Light (2008) is a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The 2008 installation consists of restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s. Most of them once lit the streets of Southern California. [1] [2]