Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

Thu Dec 23 16:14:32 UTC 2010

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:03, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "JC Dill" <jcdill.lists at gmail.com>
>
>> On 19/12/10 8:31 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
>> > Look up pictures of New York City in the early days of electricty.
>> > There were streets where you couldn't hardly see the sky because of
>> > all
>> > the wires on the poles.
>> >
>> Can you provide a link to a photo of this situation?
>
> Sure, though they're a bit harder to find on the web than you'd
> think; it took me almost 20 minutes to find this one when I
> wrote the piece:
>
> http://baylink.pitas.com/#LASTMILE
>

Those look more like power lines, with a substation in the background.

Try this:
http://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/innovations/1998/05/images/historical001.jpg
from http://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/innovations/1998/05/evolution.html

or a drawing:
http://blog.silive.com/sinotebook/2008/12/Broadway-1885.jpg

Andrew