One of the first of seven electric street lights installed in LA (ca. 1882). Each mast carries three carbon-arc lamps of three thousand candle-power. (800×1280)

One of the first electric street lights in LA. It stood at 150-feet carrying three carbon-arc lamps of three thousand candle-power. (ca.1882)

One of the first of seven electric street lights installed in the City of Los Angeles, located on the east side of Main Street, just north of Commercial Street (300 block of Main St.) The street light stood 150 feet tall and was situated in front of the St. Charles Hotel where one of the city’s first gas lamps once stood.

You can find more pictures and information here:

https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Bureau_of_Power_and_Light_Streetlights.html