04/18/2026
Lamp down at Dalton and Gest. Can someone enter it in the service request? Link in comments.
Particular Local Infrastructure Please share photos of these lamps. Now they seem to primarily alert drivers to the raised island in the roadway.
They are found around the city of Cincinnati, most often in median islands or separators of city streets. I was once told that they originally indicated streetcar platforms, but have never been able to confirm this. I would love to build an collection of photos of these lamps. Please link your own or message the admin to email. Please include location (intersection and neighborhood) info, and your
04/18/2026
Lamp down at Dalton and Gest. Can someone enter it in the service request? Link in comments.
03/14/2026
02/09/2026
If only there were an elegant way to alert people of the presence of a raised area within the roadway.
02/09/2026
Woodburn near Myrtle, 7/3/42. Photo posted by Phil Lind on Old Photos Of Cincinnati.
01/05/2026
Ludlow at Spring Grove
01/05/2026
Elsinore at Reading
12/03/2025
Submitted by Phil Lind. 1970s Winton at Spring Grove. There was a lamp there as recently as 2007. Gone by 2011.
11/26/2025
Reading Road, October 1929.
11/26/2025
McMillan at Gilbert, looking west. 1928
11/25/2025
4th and Plum, 1949. Shared by Phil Lind to Old Photos Of Cincinnati
11/20/2025
Anyone able to ID the location or guess a date? From a Cincinnati Metro post. Link in comments.