Topic: photos of old signs on the internet (Read 72560 times)

Quillz · « **Reply #425 on:** November 08, 2011, 10:12:15 PM »

Quote from: relaxok on November 02, 2011, 08:45:03 PM

WOW i LOVE that color!!! Did those shields used to also be on the road naked on cutout signs??

Unfortunately, no, Florida never did make their colorful shields in a cutout version. I made two, though, one in red and one in orange:

(Something must be wrong with the vector file, it produces a weird shadow in the upper-left corner.)

US71 · « **Reply #426 on:** November 09, 2011, 08:03:01 AM »

Quote from: NE2 on November 02, 2011, 08:50:09 PM

http://www.us-highways.com/flausa.htm
They were never on cutouts.

But Mississippi has cutouts

hbelkins · « **Reply #427 on:** November 18, 2011, 08:14:48 PM »

Found these beauties in Vermont last week:

These next two are just across the border in New Hampshire:

Hot Rod Hootenanny · « **Reply #428 on:** November 19, 2011, 11:30:51 PM »

Some classics from Delaware, Ohio.

Some classic cutouts from 1958

From 1972, we have a n-west directional sign and a horizontal directional sign

Don't have a date for this one, but it's of the US 23 freeway through Delaware. Early 1960s.

CanesFan27 · « **Reply #429 on:** December 11, 2011, 07:23:20 PM »

I took this photo of what was an old Black and White guide sign and old Kennywood Park sign at Kennywood's Auto Ride.

IMG_7373 by Adam's Journey, on Flickr

I think this was located most likely on US 19

gonealookin · « **Reply #430 on:** December 12, 2011, 12:18:37 AM »

Bright light city gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire...

I was going through some issues of NDOT newsletters; it's in the Spring 2006 issue.
http://www.nevadadot.com/News/NEWSLETTERS.aspx

ctsignguy · « **Reply #431 on:** December 13, 2011, 07:48:38 AM »

Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on August 21, 2011, 05:40:10 PM

US 23 south of Delaware, Ohio, just east of it's intersection with Oh 315 (Stratford). Circa 1927.
Found on this webpage - http://www.columbusrailroads.com/cd&m%20worthington%20north.htm

how about this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-ENAMEL-ROUND-CAUTION-CURVE-SIGN-/290645896439?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43abd86cf7

Steve · « **Reply #432 on:** December 13, 2011, 09:40:06 PM »

Quote from: CanesFan27 on December 11, 2011, 07:23:20 PM

I took this photo of what was an old Black and White guide sign and old Kennywood Park sign at Kennywood's Auto Ride.

IMG_7373 by Adam's Journey, on Flickr

I think this was located most likely on US 19

Based on the mileage I'd say US 6/322 EB.

Hot Rod Hootenanny · « **Reply #433 on:** December 22, 2011, 11:30:44 PM »

Antique toy signs from here in Delaware.

You'll notice that these devices look very similiar to the "sign" on the far right hand side of this photo as well
http://www.columbusrailroads.com/photogallery-4/021%20Stratford%20Ohio-1200.jpg

US71 · « **Reply #434 on:** December 23, 2011, 12:08:04 AM »

Lebo, KS

Ashdown, AR -- No longer exists

Near Pittsburg, KS

Williamsville, IL

tvketchum · « **Reply #435 on:** December 23, 2011, 07:24:34 AM »

Quote from: Tom on October 03, 2011, 08:29:53 PM

How about an old photo of an old road sign when it was new (from Michigan Tech Library):

http://www.digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=706023#

Not only the sign, but that guardrail from the good old days....

Dougtone · « **Reply #436 on:** December 23, 2011, 07:28:48 AM »

There's a few old cast iron signs from the Lebanon Machine Company (of Lebanon, New Hampshire) that are scattered around Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. To my best guess, these signs were produced in the 1910s and 1920s and I suspect that they were color coded by state to some extent. Most of the signs I've seen are in Massachusetts or New Hampshire, I doubt there's any in Rhode Island and I haven't come across any in Maine. There's more of these signs in Massachusetts that I'm aware of, in the Boston area, but I haven't gotten around to photographing them yet.

Middlebury, Connecticut. This is the only such sign that I've come across in the Constitution State.

Mendon, Massachusetts. There's a bunch of old signs in general floating around Mendon.

Hingham, Massachusetts.

Originally in Randolph, Vermont, but now in front of someone's house on VT Route 2A.

Woodstock, Vermont.

Orford, New Hampshire.

Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.

Bethlehem, New Hampshire.

Bethlehem, New Hampshire.

Jim · « **Reply #437 on:** December 26, 2011, 03:58:20 PM »

On US 17 South, just south of Ridgeland, South Carolina, taken last week.

The sun was at a bad angle, so it's hard to see, but there used to be "ALT" next to US 17.

rickmastfan67 · « **Reply #438 on:** December 27, 2011, 01:16:00 AM »

Quote from: Jim on December 26, 2011, 03:58:20 PM

The sun was at a bad angle, so it's hard to see, but there used to be "ALT" next to US 17.

Plus if you zoom in enough on the image, you can also see the following text under the SC-170 shield, "US 17".

Jim · « **Reply #439 on:** December 27, 2011, 09:00:37 AM »

Quote from: rickmastfan67 on December 27, 2011, 01:16:00 AM

Quote from: Jim on December 26, 2011, 03:58:20 PM
The sun was at a bad angle, so it's hard to see, but there used to be "ALT" next to US 17.

Plus if you zoom in enough on the image, you can also see the following text under the SC-170 shield, "US 17".

Yes, definitely. Here's a crop from my original:

CanesFan27 · « **Reply #440 on:** December 27, 2011, 09:12:55 AM »

http://www.flickr.com/photos/llnesinthesand/3648721612/in/pool-scroadsigns|llnesinthesand#/photos/llnesinthesand/3648721612/in/pool-924468@N23/

a little bit brighter where you can see the ghost 'ALT" and "US 17"

Fixed URL link to be clickable. -rmf67

CanesFan27 · « **Reply #441 on:** January 09, 2012, 11:38:41 PM »

Two items I found this weekend on MD 257

005 by Adam's Journey, on Flickr

019 by Adam's Journey, on Flickr

US71 · « **Reply #442 on:** January 14, 2012, 06:26:01 PM »

Circa 1973 in Fayetteville, AR:
2D-Style US 62B and US 71B

Courtesy Fayetteville Public Library and City of Fayetteville Office of Planning

Hot Rod Hootenanny · « **Reply #443 on:** January 15, 2012, 10:15:04 PM »

From the "Old Images of Philadelphia" Facebook page.

US71 · « **Reply #444 on:** January 15, 2012, 10:25:45 PM »

Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on January 15, 2012, 10:15:04 PM

From the "Old Images of Philadelphia" Facebook page.

Gorgeous!!

Jim · « **Reply #445 on:** January 16, 2012, 10:37:34 AM »

Not nearly as old as some of the excellent stuff posted here, but here's a well-worn one from I-95 and MA 128 northwest of Boston:

US71 · « **Reply #446 on:** January 16, 2012, 10:55:19 AM »

Circa 2002.

2007 Colby, KS
Business 70 doesn't even exist here anymore.

US71 · « **Reply #447 on:** January 16, 2012, 11:03:30 AM »

And one from Illinois

hbelkins · « **Reply #448 on:** January 16, 2012, 05:16:05 PM »

Quote from: US71 on January 16, 2012, 10:55:19 AM

Circa 2002.

There isn't much button copy left in Missouri, is there? I have seen some on some of the intersecting roads along I-55 down in the bootheel area, but very little at all anywhere else in my travels in the Show-Me State.

agentsteel53 · « **Reply #449 on:** January 16, 2012, 06:47:57 PM »

Quote from: hbelkins on January 16, 2012, 05:16:05 PM

There isn't much button copy left in Missouri, is there? I have seen some on some of the intersecting roads along I-55 down in the bootheel area, but very little at all anywhere else in my travels in the Show-Me State.

there's a fair amount in Kansas City on side streets to the Exit 2 complex as of February, 2010.

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