The Ultility Poles and Wires of Portland, ME

[nomc]

How can you choose a favorite child??

 

[TC_zoid]

terrible, but could be worse....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-s-no-wonder-poor-electricians-blow-fuse.html

 

[markhb]

I think some of us have taken this thread as a challenge to create art!

 

[nomc]

terrible, but could be worse....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-s-no-wonder-poor-electricians-blow-fuse.html

Give us a few years...

 

[Corey]

I think some of us have taken this thread as a challenge to create art!

Not at all

But seems like a good thread to post this Hopper vs. Templeton comparison I did a few years back. Mr. Hopper was a fan of Portland's utility poles as well.

Edward Hopper vs. Corey Templeton by Corey Templeton, on Flickr

 

[nomc]

Here's the classic dead-bird-in-the-wires photo from July 31, 2021 - photo credit goes to @Portlander

 

[DanielPWM19]

Not at all

But seems like a good thread to post this Hopper vs. Templeton comparison I did a few years back. Mr. Hopper was a fan of Portland's utility poles as well.

Edward Hopper vs. Corey Templeton by Corey Templeton, on Flickr

This is funny - my dad used to paint and I always thought it was funny that he included telephone poles in his work. I'd leave them out.

 

[markhb]

But seems like a good thread to post this Hopper vs. Templeton comparison I did a few years back. Mr. Hopper was a fan of Portland's utility poles as well.

Corey, you create art regardless.

But that Hopper painting is interesting to me for capturing that building that apparently stood on the site of the old W.L. Blake pipe shop. (Blake's had the big yard on Franklin where the Hilton is today from which they sold long lengths of pipe, and the shop at the back of their parking lot, where the Sea Grill / Law School building is today, where they did things like threading.)

 

[mainejeff]

Another thing regarding power lines in Portland....do these impede planting trees in some locations? I'm guessing it does.

 

[matt.greeson]

Not at all

But seems like a good thread to post this Hopper vs. Templeton comparison I did a few years back. Mr. Hopper was a fan of Portland's utility poles as well.

Edward Hopper vs. Corey Templeton by Corey Templeton, on Flickr

Is there any way that is the very same piece of wood?

The loose, dangling wires taped to the side of the pole is a work of art

This is the bottom of that same pole. Like something you'd see in the window at MECA.

 

[Dr. StrangeHat]

Is there any way that is the very same piece of wood?
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This is the bottom of that same pole. Like something you'd see in the window at MECA.

This needs to be a mural on the wall in the new entrance to the PMA

 

[nomc]

This needs to be a mural on the wall in the new entrance to the PMA

Dig up like 5 feet of pavement around it and install it just as you walk in. Maybe put it right in the way so you have to walk around it.

 

[jlichyen]

Is there any way that is the very same piece of wood?
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This is the bottom of that same pole. Like something you'd see in the window at MECA.

I was in the Philippines recently, and that's what a big percentage of their power lines look like. Walk around Manila and you'll be dodging wires all day!

 

[mainejeff]

I was in the Philippines recently, and that's what a big percentage of their power lines look like. Walk around Manila and you'll be dodging wires all day!

Portland, Maine....the Manila, Phillipines of the Northeast.....ayuh.

 

[nomc]

Had to document this one before it's culled:

 

[matt.greeson]

I had not previously noticed this glued together masterpiece in the West End.

 

[DanielPWM19]

I accidentally came across this image recently. Maybe enough to make your eye twitch?

 

[Redfern]

I avoid this page because CMP literally makes my blood boil and I don't know why the State/City allows utilities to do whatever the f@#$ they want - but we are putting some stuff underground around Mercy. ~ C

 

[Corey]

Rowhouse edition
Stratton Place Power Lines by Corey Templeton, on Flickr

 

[mainejeff]

They can drape lights on them for a Parisian summer ambience!