My 1st Lighting Board

Just for fun here is a photo of me standing in front of the Sayville High School Lighting Board.

The photo is from my from my junior year yearbook (1972-73).

It was an old autotransformer system with 15 dimmers, three masters and one grand master that could move all the handles at once.

My hand is on the main power switch and behind me is the operator patching system.

I learned a lot on that board and even did some basic maintenance replacing the brushes on several of the dimmer rotors.