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2 unusual facts about utility pole


Gilberdyke railway station

One of the main employers near the station was the Staddlethorpe pole yard, where telegraph poles were dipped in creosote.

Vinho Verde

Many of these growers train their vines high off the ground, up trees, fences, and even telephone poles so that they can cultivate vegetable crops below the vines that their families may use as a food source.


Street

Rather, vertical segregation is applied on a piecemeal basis, as in sewers, utility poles, depressed highways, elevated railways, common utility ducts, the extensive complex of underground malls surrounding Tokyo Station and the Ōtemachi subway station, the elevated pedestrian skyway networks of Minneapolis and Calgary, the underground cities of Atlanta and Montreal, and the multilevel streets in Chicago.


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Area codes 408 and 669

One receiver for at least one of the voted IMTS channels was located in a pole mount-cabinet on a utility pole along Montevina Road off California State Route 17.

Battery Cameron

Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent who spied for Soviet & Russian intelligence agencies until 2001, had a "dead drop" marker at the utility pole on the corner of Foxhall & Whitehaven, just outside the fence of the reservoir (formerly known as Battery Cameron).

Jerome Brown

Brown died on June 25, 1992, at the age of 27, following an automobile accident in Brooksville, Florida, in which both he and his 12-year-old nephew, Gus, were killed when Brown lost control of his ZR1 Chevrolet Corvette at high speed and crashed into a utility pole.

Viktor Petrenko

In January 2004, Petrenko was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after crashing his car into a utility pole in Connecticut and refusing to take a breathalyzer test.