In regard to Pompano's first traffic light, Pompano Beach City Historian Bud Garner writes:

. . . the first traffic light in Pompano was mounted on a concrete pillar that sat in the middle of the intersection and was energized from electric wires that stretched from the top of the signal light across the road to the East and wired into the electrical wires alongside the Railroad.

As you can probably guess, that concrete pillar was almost like a magnet sitting there in the middle of Dixie Highway and there were many mornings when the pillar and light had been knocked over or skewered and twisted around in some manner.

Nevertheless, the light was there to stay and did so until Old Dixie Highway was widened from the 12 ft. road into a much wider, safer one.