Restoration of Cabrillo Bridge lamps completed!

A newly restored street lamp graces the top of Cabrillo Bridge. The California Tower rises in the background.

A project to restore the 30 light standards atop the Cabrillo Bridge has been completed in late 2016! I took photos before, during, and after the historic street lamps, installed for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, were restored to their original condition.

Sign shows the Balboa Park Cabrillo Bridge Historic Light Standards Restoration Project. It was completed in late 2016.

One of the old rusty light poles atop Cabrillo Bridge (originally installed in 1914 during the bridge’s construction) before restoration in 2016.

View of the historic 1915 Cabrillo Bridge from the old cactus garden behind the Balboa Park Club.

Plaque commemorates the Cabrillo Bridge, completed in 1915 for the Panama-California Exposition. It’s a San Diego Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

Another nearby restoration project has also been completed–the two guardhouses on El Prado at the west end of the Cabrillo Bridge.

Photo shows both new and old light poles on the Cabrillo Bridge. The restored poles were painted to match their color during the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park.

Photo of old rusty light standard, and the glass globes before their replacement. 30 poles have been restored.

This ornate base of an original light pole atop Cabrillo Bridge was over 100 years old.

This base was so rusted out, much of it was missing.

Photo shows base of light pole after its careful restoration in 2016.

New lights illuminate the top of Cabrillo Bridge in beautiful Balboa Park!

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