Ode to the Plastic Boots

[Gannon]

Driving home from a curious reunion at the Beaubien Street Saloon tonight, it dawned on me...where did all those idiotic plastic streetlight boots GO?!

I cannot even remember when I saw the last one.

Did anyone EVER look into that contract to see who made off with that cash?


They laughed to the bank and beyond...

[DetroitDad]

There is still two in use outside my work, crushed, cracked, and filled with trash. It really ads to the new street scape of the nearby Midtown Loop Greenway.

[Ray1936]

I still see a lot of them on Google street view. Oh....wait....those pics are two years old now.........

[Gannon]

Still on patrol, huh Ray? LOL


I had to start this thread because they just seemed to all disappear...or they crumbled into little plastic pieces and are too small to see.

I put it into my little game of what to watch for around the city now...and thought others might want to play along!



I really WANT this to have been on purpose...a Bing initiative of some sort...but yanno how I am with pie-in-the-sky dreams and imaginations!

[Lowell]

It seems it was one of those things they had done, but had no followup maintenance and replacement plan. I recall seeing a number of that had been hit and was impressed by the protective value. The boots got beat up but the pole was undamaged. I am guessing the cars incurred less damage too.

Maybe they worked too good? If you know what I mean.

[East Detroit]

Perhaps they were simply awnings on the Statler.