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St. Tammany Farmer January 1929
"Stop-Go Street Lights At Important Corners To Operate Next Week"
Contractor Edw. J. Frederick, Jr., has been busy this week putting up lines and other necessary paraphernalia for the installation of the stop-go traffic signals at six of the busy street intersections in the town.
The lights will be in operation next week and are being installed at the corner of the Covington Bank & Trust Co., Commercial Bank & Trust Co., Badon's Garage, Burns Furniture Co., Burns Dry Goods Co., and at the Peoples' Bakery. The lights are of modern type with the three colors, yellow light for caution, red light for stop, and green light for go. The stop and go signals will alternate 30 seconds for each street and before 1 the change of signals the usual jingle' of a bell will remind the autoist and others of the traffic signal.
COVINGTON REACHES THE CITY STAGE.
If you folks out of Covington happen to meet a Covingtonian and his chest is all stuck out, and his face beaming with smiles, don't think he has made a million dollars over night -it's just because he is proud of the cityfied air his town has taken on.
You see, it's like this: Lately our town has put down a large area of fine paved streets, a white way brilliantly illuminates the principal thoroughfares, and Thursday the new traffic signals were turned on, and if all that put together don't make we Covington folk feel like big-town people-well, what will?
One day's trial of the new traffic signals has about educated the motorists to stop and go according to Boyle, and if the signals had been in operation one day earlier they would have prevented a smash-up at the corner of the Commercial Bank. At any rate, we don't see the hurry-up motorists speeding across busy street intersections any more and, thanks for
that.
End of 1929 article
Street Lights
The city was also proud of the day it installed and turned on street lights. Cities all across the country were putting in street lights, and the illumination of the major thoroughfares was considered quite an accomplishment. Canal Street in New Orleans was lit up in 1930 and earned the name "The Great White Way" as a result.
Covington was two years ahead of Canal Street, however, since Boston Street street lights came on in early 1928. It was also called the "White Way" because of the lighting improvements. There was even a grocery store on Boston St. named the White Way Grocery.
