Upstate Outback | The STAR Lamp!

Filmed in the Catskill mountains at our family summer house by Route 28, Arkville, NY; on a cool, damp night, July 16 & 17, 2017.
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Parallel Hyperlink (daytime): https://youtu.be/Yd12kAhMOck
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Few years after the sunspot minimum decade- soon after Reagan and Gorbachev joined to "Tear Down This Wall!" anti-iron curtain campaign; when coin-slot GORF arcade machines filled many public areas; when Kermit the Frog was a newscaster as boys fiddled with Tonka trucks and girls nestled with Cabbage Patch dolls- indeed, shortly thereafter, I purchased my very first HID fixture! It was sold at (now defunct) Hugh M. Woods stores, and another one, I also purchased from Walmart, having been on sale for just $24.95 at the time- way back in 1994! And so, I quickly rushed home- elated with this big box full of Made-in-the-USA fixture and lamp- and mounted that python onto my living room wall. Whereas an electric socket should have been there, a large mercury vapor yard lamp had now replaced the contents thereof. With fervor, I rummaged for the circuit breaker, hot-wired it and turned it on while it gradually arced up to blinding brightness. It caused me to feel giddy by reason of ultraviolet radiation that bombarded me! Yet for joy, I grinned in awe as I now got away with a "hot star" installed and unleashed inside my living room! If the apartment manager caught me in flagrante delicto, my eviction issuance would have been served along with Denver Fire Department backup! Days later, after feeling humbled by such an awful, unlawful act, I consulted a qualified licensed electrician and rectified the ordeal by adherence to a mandatory electrical code procedure, safety concerns and liability. Admittedly, however, I volunteered to do this without getting into trouble in the first place [luckily] and started to design my own fixtures out of scratch. Electrical schematics were always sketched out for me on labels that came with the ballast kit package. Even so, such were the times of my heyday; riddled with radiance, listening to stereophonic Neil Diamond, and having a big blast! ...But no more "monotubes" for cobra head streetlight luminaires back in the 50's and through the 90's midway... Now "Gone With The Electric Wind" the hulking core and coil of big ballast, capacitor and fuse-box stored in an aluminum cabinet built per each high mast, highway or high bay beacon agleam! May the 1980's resurrect...

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