Webmaster Bios - AARoads.com
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Alex Nitzman and Andy Field co-founded AARoads on July 19, 2000. Field started the Highway Kick-off Page and Wyoming Highways in 1997. Alex began writing web pages during the Fall of 1998 and soon debuted the "Route Sign Gallery" early in 1999. After several emails between him and Andy Field, the two agreed to co-host the Interstate Shield Gallery on Andy's page formerly at xoom.com. From there the gallery became the A.A. Highway Sign Gallery with a focus on all kinds of highway signage across the U.S. and World. |
| With the demise of xoom.com/nbci.com, Field, Nitzman, and fellow road enthusiast Jeremy Lance joined the domain name world with the creation of AARoads.com. From there Field's Nevada, Wyoming, San Diego, and Kick-off Page among others merged with Nitzman's Delaware Highways and Roads of Mobile and Pensacola. The A.A. Highway Sign Gallery blossomed into a huge catalog of sign photos with the vast contributions of fellow highway enthusiasts world wide. However as the site grew and the associated bandwidth followed, costs proved to be prohibitive for continued growth of the Gallery. It was decided in 2002 to discontinue the Gallery in favor of other areas of the web page. |
In 2002, Nitzman and Field created AARoadtrips.com, an extension of the AARoads focus on highways. The page hosted various photo collections from road trips taken by AARoads in a highway guide format. Expansion however eventually necessitate the addition of additional host accounts and domain names. Interstate-Guide.com was born around the same time to cover the Interstate Highway System of the United States. Originally created by Nitzman, Field, and Douglas Kerr of Gribblenation.com, the Interstate Guide also outgrew AARoads and had to make its way onto its own domain. The Guide covers every signed and unsigned Interstate, and many of the decommissioned and future designations. Focus is given to the highway history, routing, endpoints, traffic counts, and maps.
WestCoastRoads.com joined the AARoads family in 2003 to accommodate Andy Field's vast collection of highway photos and information for the Southwestern U.S. In 2004 aaroads.com/west and SouthEastRoads.com followed suit for the increasing coverage of those states with new highway guides. In 2005 AARoads expanded to cover Texas with LoneStarRoads.com as Kevin Trinkle joined the team and added NorthEastRoads.com to augment AARoadtrips.com. J.T. Legg brought his Peach State Roads page onto the SouthEastRoads.com domain on December 1, 2005 to compliment existing Georgia coverage.
AARoadtrips.com, LoneStarRoads.com, and NorthEastRoads.com were merged back into the parent AARoads.com between 2007 and 2009. These moves condense our coverage into an expanded AARoads to go along with expansion into Midwestern and Great Lakes area states. Peach State Roads was closed in 2008, followed by the closing of the Highway Kick-off page in 2009. The AARoads Forum was added in winter 2009 to provide a place for road enthusiasts, travelers, and others to discuss highways.
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The overall template design was created by Kelly Krapp and the bridge flash movie was created by Fred Nitzman.
Page Updated September 26, 2009.
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