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• added 3 new pictures to the Others Gallery page, with text

• added 8 new pictures to the Others Gallery page, with text

• updated a caption on the Others Gallery page
• added a new question on the Others Questions page
• Observations
  • Colors: 2 New; 1 Updated

• added 17 new pictures to the Others Gallery page, with text
• Links
  • Pictures: 1 New

• put one thumbnail picture and its text up a few higher on the Others Gallery page

• added 1 new picture to the Others Gallery page, with text

• added 12 new pictures to the Others Gallery page, with text
• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 1 New
  • ID Numbers: 1 New

• added 10 new pictures to the Others Gallery page, with text

• Questions
  • History: 1 New answer
  • Engrave Marks: 1 New answer
  • Treatment: 2 New questions, 1 New answer
  • Tags: 1 New answer

• Questions from Others: 1 New
• Observations
  • Insulators: 1 Updated
• Questions
  • Replacing: 1 New answer
  • Treatment: 2 New answers
  • I.D. Numbers: 4 New answers
  • changed e-mail address on the new answers to questions

• Questions from Others: 2 New
• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 1 New, 1 Updated
• Updates: did long-overdue update on an e-mail link
• Clippings: 1 New

• updated Site Name paragraph on main page
• Observations
  • Colors: 2 New
  • Replacing: 2 New
  • Inspection Tags: 1 New
  • Insulators: 1 Updated (with link to a picture added)
• Questions from Others: 1 New
• fixed the year portion of the Javascript update date on all of the pages

• added Beech Street to Greenfield picture gallery, starting with 13 pictures
• added High Street to Greenfield picture gallery, starting with 1 picture
• Questions
  • Wires: 1 New answer
• Links
  • Streetlights: 1 New

• Links
  • Pictures: 1 Removed, 1 Updated
  • Treatment: 1 New, 1 Removed
  • Replacing: 2 Updated
  • Streetlights: 1 Removed
  • Revived and revised "Linking to This Site" text on Links page

• Observations
  • Colors: 1 New
  • Replacing: 1 Updated
  • Push Brace Poles: 1 New
  • fixed specific anchor link text in both Observations pages so that "Push Poles" reads "Push Brace Poles"

• Observations
  • Colors: 1 New, 1 Updated
  • Engrave Marks: 1 New
  • Replacing: 2 New, 1 Updated
  • I.D. Numbers: 2 New, 1 Updated
  • Street Lights: 1 New
  • Inspection Tags: 1 New
• Questions
  • Replacing: 1 New
  • Treatment: 1 New
  • Special Poles: 2 New
  • I.D. Numbers: 2 New

• changed e-mail address links on home page
• changed e-mail link on Updates page (listed under July 14, 2000) to same e-mail link that main page now has

• moved site from NBCi.com (formerly XOOM.com) to 50megs.com
• commented out "Linking to This Site" text on Links page
• replaced NBCi.com (formerly XOOM.com) counter with a Bravenet one on home page

• Observations
  • Insulators: 1 New
• changed e-mail link on Updates page (listed under July 14, 2000) to same e-mail link that main page currently has

• Observations
  • Renamed "Push Poles" section as "Push Brace Poles" and changed references to push poles in this section to push brace poles
  • Push Brace Poles: 1 New (as well as one new image), 3 Updated
• Questions
  • Replacing: 1 New
  • I.D. Numbers: 1 New
• Links
  • Replacing: 1 New

• fixed up the two Observations pages and Updates page so that they are more of the format once again prior to previous day's updates
• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 1 New
  • Replacing: 1 New
  • Insulators: 3 Updated (fix-up of outline)

• Observations
  • Replacing: 1 New, 6 Updated (including some outline changes)
  • ID Numbers: 1 New, 1 Updated
  • Insulators: 1 Updated

• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 1 New, 1 Updated
  • ID Numbers: 5 New, 1 Updated
  • Inspection Tags: 1 New

• Changed e-mail address links on home page
• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 2 Updated

• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 2 New, 1 Updated

• Observations
  • added new Beseen counter on page 2
• Questions
  • I.D. Numbers: 1 New
• Questions from Others
  • added WIDTH and HEIGHT to the <IMG SRC> (image source) tags of the references to the image of the e-mail letter that had been overlooked the previous day

• Questions
  • introduction text has one update
  • Replacing: 1 New, 1 Updated
  • Treatment: 1 Updated
  • I.D. Numbers: 3 New
• Observations
  • Replacing: 1 new Anchor Name
  • I.D. Numbers: 1 new Anchor Name
• Questions from Others
  • 2 New
  • added WIDTH and HEIGHT to the <IMG SRC> (image source) tags of the references to the image of the e-mail letter

August 11, 2000

• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 3 New
  • Replacing: 3 New
  • I.D. Numbers: 2 New
  • Insulators: 1 New, 5 Updated
  • Wires: 1 New, 1 Updated
  • Street Lights: 2 Updated
  • Climbing Hooks: 4 Updated
  • Inspection Tags: 8 Updated
  • Push Poles: 1 New, 2 Updated
  • Train Track Poles: 1 Updated
  • Observations page is now 2 pages

August 1, 2000

• Observations
  • Colors: 1 Updated
  • Roofs: 1 Updated
  • Engrave Marks: 2 New, 9 Updated
  • Replacing: 2 New, 5 Updated
  • ID Numbers: 8 Updated
  • Street Lights: 1 Updated
• Links
  • Treatment: 1 New
  • Reference: 1 Updated

July 14, 2000

• Observations
  • Colors: 1 New, 1 Updated
  • Engrave Marks: 5 Updated*
  • Inspection Tags: 1 New, 3 Updated
  • Replacing: 1 Updated
  
  *[Note: I discovered that there was text missing regarding the mention of the round tag at the bottom of a new pole in the Location subsection and my mention of class numbers range in the Classes subsection. If anyone has the complete text from an older version of this page, please let me know.]

• Observations
  • Colors: 6 Updated
  • Slants section renamed Roofs
  • Roofs: 3 Updated
  • Engrave Marks: 8 Updated [includes references to Meredug corrected to Mereduc]
  • Replacing: 2 New
• Questions
  • Replacing: 1 New
• Questions from Others: 1 New

June 20, 2000

• Observations
  • Insulators: 1 Updated
  • Engrave Marks: 3 Updated, 4 New
  • Colors: 1 Updated
  • ID Numbers: 3 New (including a new subsection titled "Other Tags")
• Questions
  • Treatment: 1 New
• Questions from Others: 1 New

June 1, 2000

• Observations
  • added <BR> (break) tags after titles of each category, to make sure that the text that follows goes to the next line
  • Engrave Marks: 2 New
  • ID Numbers: 1 Updated
• Questions
  • Replacing: 2 New
• Links
  • created new section, Reference, which has started off with 2 links
• Wants
  • 1 New

May 6, 2000

• Observations
  • Crossarms, Insulators, and Pins section now called "Insulators"
  • Colors: 1 Updated, 1 New
  • Engrave Marks: 2 New
  • Replacing: 2 Updated, 7 New
  • ID Numbers: 2 Updated, 2 New
  • Insulators: 1 Updated
• Questions
  • Crossarms section now called "Insulators"
  • ID Numbers: 1 New

April 20, 2000

• created new page: Questions from Others

April 9, 2000

• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 1 Updated, 2 New
  • Replacing: 3 New
  • Crossarms, Insulators, and Pins: 2 New
• Questions
  • Replacing: 1 New
  • Wires: 3 New
  • Crossarms: 1 New
• fixed an outlining error on Questions page

March 25, 2000

• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 2 New
  • Replacing: 2 New
• Fixed outlining of Observations page in a couple of places (Slants and Replacing), as well as one observation in Slants section that was missing at least one word; other observations may also be missing in this section. (If anyone has a copy of this page with information from the Slants section that I had written before which is missing in the present copy, please let me know.)
• Questions
  • History: 1 New

March 21, 2000

• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 2 New
  • ID Numbers: 1 New
• Links
  • Treatment: 1 Updated

February 22, 2000

• added 14 new images to the Others Gallery page

February 10, 2000

• dropped the message board
• added Wants section

February 9, 2000

• added new counters to the site (one for each page)
• Observations
  • Colors: 1 Updated, 1 New
• Questions
  • History: 1 New

January 22, 2000

• I have created a new message board, The Unofficial Utility Pole Board. More recently, I have received a few e-mails that contain questions that I am not quite sure how to answer them. As a result, I decided to put up a message board. This way, someone who asks a question can receive a better answer from someone else than what I can provide. The board, of course, is also for discussions. I have also added a link to it on all of the pages.

January 20, 2000

• revised thumbnails of the Gallery pages of Greenfield, Montague Center, Old, and Sunderland to look like the other thumbnails
• Identifications section in Observations page and Metal Numbers section in Questions page both now called "I.D. Numbers"
• Observations
  • Inspection Tags: 1 New
  • fixed code for the "T" letter example in I.D. Numbers section so it is the intentional size for the page once again
• Questions
  • Replacing: 1 New
  • Treatment: 1 New

January 6, 2000

• updated text on main page of Gallery
• made all pages more Y2K accurate
• updated text of first pole added to Turners gallery

December 22, 1999

• Home Page
  • "Why I Created This Site" (Updated)
  • "The Site Name" (Updated)
  • "Nostalgia" (Updated)
• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 1 New
  • Replacing: 1 New
  • Identifications: 2 New
• Questions
  • Metal Numbers: 1 New
• made animated "UPDATED" image green so to distinguish it even more from the animated "NEW" image
• changed lettering design of all page banners
• changed design of page link buttons
• Links
  • changed design of site link button on Links page
  • Treatment: 1 Dropped
  • Towns: a new section, with 2 Added

December 6, 1999

• Observations
  • Colors: 1 New, 1 Updated
  • Engrave Marks: 13 New, 2 Updated
  • Replacing: 7 New
  • Identifications: 2 New
  • Street Lights: 1 New, 1 Updated
• Questions
  • Metal Numbers: 2 New
• Updated "The Beginning" and "Nostalgia" in Home Page

November 19, 1999

• Observations
  • Engrave Marks: 1 Updated
  • Replacing: 2 New, 2 Updated
  • Street Lights: 1 Updated
  • Train Track Poles: 1 Updated
• made jump links for both Observations and Questions on the respective pages

November 8, 1999

• Links
  • made "Electric Pole Shrine" names more specific by adding respective domain names in parenthesis
  • updated "Link to This Site" section by making link more specific to the main page (index.htm)
• Observations
  • Colors: 1 New, 1 Updated
  • Engrave Marks: 3 New, 4 Updated
  • Replacing: 10 New, 3 Updated
  • Crossarms, Insulators, and Pins: 2 New
  • Street Lights: 3 New
  • Train Track Poles: 1 Updated

October 17, 1999

• Links
  • divided Miscellaneous category into links' respective new categories
  • renamed Pole Pictures category as Pictures
  • two new categories: Replacing; History
  • History: 1 New
  • Treatment: 1 New, 1 Updated
  • Replacing: 1 New
  • Streetlights: 1 New

October 15, 1999

• Questions
  • Replacing: 2 New Answers
  • History: 4 New Answers
  • Crossarms: 6 New Answers
  • Metal Numbers: 4 New Answers
  • Tags: 1 New Answer
  • Hooks: 1 New Answer
  • Wires: 1 New Answer
  • Train Track Poles: 6 New Answers

October 11, 1999

• Observations
  • Engrave Marks/Names/Other Names: 1 New
  • Engrave Marks/Classes: 1 New, 1 Updated (the latter to correct a link, of which there is now a local copy of the page)
  • Replacing: 1 New
  • "Metal Numbers, Letters, and Company Name Tags" now called "Identifications"
  • Identifications/Letters: 1 New, 1 Updated
  • Crossarms, Insulators, and Pins: 1 New
  • Climbing Hooks: 1 Updated
  • Train Track Poles: 1 Updated

September 22, 1999

• added <BR> tag before "'T' = 'AMPS'?" illustration in Observations page in the Metal Numbers, Letters, and Company Name Tags section, so illustration would not end up on the same line as the text
• Gallery
  • New page: Sunderland
    • Russell Street: 7 New
  • New page: Greenfield
    • Deerfield Street: 3 New
  • added links to these new Gallery pages on the other Gallery pages as well
• Observations
  Replacing: 1 New

September 17, 1999

• Questions
  • Street Lights: 1 Updated Illustration
  • Metal Numbers: 1 New, 1 New Illustration
• Observations
  • Metal Numbers, Letters, and Company Name Tags: 2 Updated; 2 New; 2 New Illustrations

September 16, 1999

• Questions
  • changed "is" to "are" in introductory paragraph
  • Treatment: 1 New
  • Crossarms: 1 New, 1 Updated, 2 New Illustrations
  • Special Poles: 1 Updated (an illustration is now below instead of to the right)
  • Engrave Marks: 1 Updated (an illustration is now below instead of to the right)
  • added Streetlights section, which starts off with 4 New and 1 New Illustration

September 14, 1999

• Observations
  • Slants: 1 New
  • Engrave Marks: 2 New
  • gave "P&H" its own category in Engrave Marks section
  • Replacing: 2 New
  • Metal Numbers, Letters, and Company Name Tags: 1 Updated; 3 New
  • Climbing Hooks: 3 New
  • Inspection Tags: 1 New
  • Train Track Poles: 1 New

August 29, 1999

• Observations
  • Colors: 1 Updated; 1 New
  • Engrave Marks: 1 Updated; 3 New
  • Replacing: 2 New
  • Metal Numbers, Letters, and Company Name Tags: 2 New
  • Crossarms, Insulators, and Pins: 1 Updated; 1 New
  • categorized Colors section
• started using animated "new" and "updated" images

July 18, 1999

• added following images to Turners Gallery page: 8 Unity Street; 1 Goddard Avenue
• Colors Observations: 1 Updated
• Replacing Observations: 1 New

July 12, 1999

• Colors Observations: 1 New, 1 Updated
• Engrave Marks Observations: 1 New
• Metal Numbers, Letters, and Company Name Tags Observations: 1 Updated
• Crossarms, Insulators, and Pins Observations: 1 New, 1 Updated
• Crossarms Questions: 2 New
• Metal Numbers Questions: 3 New
• changed e-mail animated .gif
• added text to the e-mail animated .gif
• button images that link to other pages on site no longer break to next line after the fifth one
• "Those Power Lines" alt.railroad newsgroup thread page link in Questions page now fixed

July 5, 1999

• changed "Goddard" folder name to "GoddardAve"
• made changes to links to Goddard Avenue pictures in Turners Gallery page
• changed thumbnail of GoddardAve's !083005 pole
• added following images to Turners Gallery page: 9 First Street; 1 Goddard Avenue; 2 Riverside Drive; 12 Unity Street
• changed thumbnail of ScottHurst001 in Others Gallery page
• added one new image in Others Gallery page

June 28, 1999

• gave Meredug its own subsection in the Engrave Marks section of Observations page
• Colors Observations: 1 New
• Engrave Marks Observations: 2 New, 1 Updated
• Metal Numbers, Letters, and Company Name Tags Observations: 2 New
• Inspection Tags Observations: 1 New
• added Wires section in Questions page
• History Questions: 1 New
• Crossarms Questions: 1 New
• Replacement Questions: 1 New
• Wires Questions: 1 New
• lowercase outline letters in Metal Numbers section of Questions page no longer italicized
• added new Clippings section
• added Clippings link image to all of the pages
• updated "The Site Name" paragraph on main page

June 14, 1999

• added a few more words to the Meta Tags on main page
• added new Gallery page for Turners Falls
• added link to Turners Falls Gallery page in other Gallery pages
• renamed "Metal Numbers and Letters" section in Observations as "Metal Numbers, Letters, and Company Name Tags"
• improved listing for Observations "Metal Numbers, Letters, and Name Tags" section, categorizing it
• Colors Observations: 1 Updated, 1 New
• Slants Observations: 4 Updated
• Metal Numbers, Letters, and Name Tags Observations: 3 Updated, 4 New
• Crossarms, Insulators, and Holders Observations: 2 Updated, 1 New
• Inspection Tags Observations: 1 Updated, 1 New
• names of ones that sent pictures now appearing above their thumbnails, and in bigger lettering
• renamed "Crossarms, Insulators, and Holders" section in Observations as "Crossarms, Insulators, and Pins"
• replaced occurrences of "holders" with "pins" in Observations page
• changed "Where It All Began" title to "The Beginning" in main page
• added "Replacing" section in Observations page
• Replacing Observations: 1 New

June 3, 1999

• renamed gallery pictures, replacing "E" with "!" and "T" with "@"; these letters are found on poles, while "!" and "@" are likely not to be found on them
• a couple of pictures also renamed with more detailed names
• some Gallery pages edited to reflect changes in picture names
• renamed "Those power lines!.htm" by adding in underscores in place of the spaces, which some web browsers don't seem to support in file names
• improved listing of Updates page, so text that wraps to next line is indented like the rest of the text
• also, added horizontal rules between each list of updates
• Engrave Marks Observations: 5 New, 1 Updated
• Metal Numbers and Letters Observations: 1 Updated, 1 New

May 27, 1999

• update to "The Site Name" paragraph in main page
• added new link in "Newsgroups" section of Links page
• Replacing Questions: 3 New
• Crossarms Questions: 1 New
• update to "Where It All Began" paragraph in main page
• Metal Numbers Questions: 1 New
• Treatment Questions: 1 New
• new: Tags section in Questions; 1 New, with 2 illustrations
• changed web pages background image from wood to poletile
• added note to bottom of Train Track Poles section in Questions page, and link to new page in this site

May 17, 1999

• improved listing in Engrave Marks section of the Observations page
• Colors Observations: 4 Updated, 1 New
• Engrave Marks Observations: 3 Updated, 2 New
• Metal Numbers and Letters Observations: 2 Updated, 4 New
• Inspection Tags Observations: 5 New
• added Linking to This Site section in Links page

May 14, 1999

• renamed thumbnails and pictures in Gallery
• added ALT text for non-visual browsers in Gallery
• pages within Gallery section now have link to main Gallery page
• added introductory text to others page from Gallery section
• changed name of site to "The Unofficial Utility Pole Page"
• updated "The Site Name" paragraph in main page
• Treatment Questions: 1 New
• Train Track Poles Questions: 1 New
• fixed McFarland Cascade link on Links page
• Engrave Marks Observations: 1 Updated (to fix a link)

April 26, 1999

• added four more pictures to Federal Street, Montague Center, in Gallery
• more renaming of some of the pictures
• added explanations to the older pictures in Gallery
• added three new links
• updated one link
• Engrave Marks Observations: 3 Updated, 1 New
• Metal Numbers and Letters Observations: 2 New
• Metal Numbers Questions: 5 New (4 subitems and 1 question)

April 22, 1999

• compressed byte sizes of most full-sized images
• created bigger images of most full-sized pictures in older section
• renamed most gallery files
• Engrave Marks Observations: 2 Updated, 5 New
• Metal Numbers and Letters Observations: 1 New
• Inspection Tags Observations: 2 New

April 3, 1999

• added two new items in Observations page
• changed introduction text in main Gallery page
• formatted Gallery by town and streets

March 31, 1999

• added "Site Name" paragraph in main page
• updated "Nostalgia" paragraph in main page
• added and updated in Observations
• changed references to cross(es) to proper term "crossarm(s)" in Observations and Questions pages
• added five new links in Links page

March 23, 1999

• added Links page
• changed links for site pages so that the buttons are as separate images
• added new observations and updated some already-existing ones

March 12, 1999

• more new observations added
• added "Earlier Known Updates" section in Updates page
• more new questions added
• both Observations and Questions now have a "Train Track Poles" section
• added image size specification tags in the HTML code of all pages, except Gallery
• switched the order of e-mail and map images on the Home Page

March 11, 1999

• answers to questions now with bullets
• fixed Questions section titles so there would be no space after them
• added new answers in Questions page
• reformatted listings in Update page

March 6, 1999

• added answers received from people to some of the questions in Questions page
• made questions in Questions page bold and italic
• replaced "Back to Home Page" link with button-like links to all other pages on each page
  

March 1, 1999

• changed the graphics of "new" and "update"
  
• new questions and new observations added
  
• added titles before and paragraph spaces after each section of questions
  
• created Updates page
  
• simplified links to the different pages on the Home Page
  
• placed introductory text into each page
  
• added another sentence in Gallery introduction text
  

February 24, 1999

• added new questions and observations
  
• updated some previously added questions and observations
  
• questions rearranged in such a way that they are ordered by subject somewhat
  
• added "new" and "update" graphics as to which information is new and which is updated
  
• two illustrations added to Questions page
  
• submitted picture added to gallery
  
• gallery now distinguishes between pictures uploaded by me and ones by others
  

Earlier Known Updates

• changed banner design
• changed name of site from "The Telephone Pole Page" to "The Utility Pole Page"
• changed banner to match new name of web page
• added pages for observations, questions, and gallery
• added new section in home page, specifying my area of residence
• added in date revision for each page
• switched to a different e-mail link animated .GIF image