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									| I was wondering if other people have a type of bulbs fixtures etc that is most nostalgic for them, and why. for me it might be early CFL bulbs, CFL fixtures, and early LED bulbs, they were very common when I was younger. |  |  
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									| Sodium. Mercury. Incandescent and early CFL's (think utilitech with green etch and Meijer branded CFLs). 
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									| HPS, MV, MH, and T12 fluorescent |  |  
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									| CFLs and HPS. I used to have mostly CFLs around the house when I was younger so those honestly feel even more nostalgic than incandescent for me. HPS because I saw it everywhere before LED took over, and it was always my favorite lamp type and what first actually got me into lighting. |  |  
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									|  Mercury Vapor . Specifically with clear lamps .  |  |  
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									| Unistyle 400 in MV for me. |  |  
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									| HPS and MV in Roadsters, Optispans and Optispecs.  |  |  
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									| It is those slanted single tube fluorescent streetlights    , along with coated mercury vapour lamps    (clear was very rare). Not much HPS since it is still very common. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, clear incandescents      , not in the setting most would think. Walking through a village at night with lonely dim incandescents always felt nostalgic. |  |  
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									| Oh yeah, should have mentioned in my response that that was coated mercury (mbf/u). |  |  
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									| High pressure sodium, mercury vapor, incandescent, and early LED.  |  |  
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									| CFLs. Any type. Next is linear fluorescents. Not incandescents, because we never really transitioned out of that era in this house. |  |  
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									| MV and recently the halophosphate fluorescents - even when the CRI is not that great, it feels somewhat calming (speaking about the most common 4100K blend)... |  |  
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