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More shields
« on: December 03, 2011, 08:01:09 PM »
Some shields from my collection, plus a few extras.  Happy Saturday.





















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Re: More shields
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2011, 08:15:55 PM »
I LOVE that Business 99 sign.!
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Re: More shields
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2011, 09:37:40 PM »
I've never seen a 99 like that.  which state is it from?

the 97 is the only one example ever seen of a state-named CA US 97 cutout in anyone's collection.  

can we use the photos on the shield gallery?
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Re: More shields
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2011, 04:02:54 PM »
I believe the 99 is from Oregon, at least that's where I bought it, though I'm really not sure.  

Feel free to use any of my pictures for your shield gallery.  I'd be honored.

BTW, does anyone know anything about my Idaho route 70 sign?  I can find no information on this highway. 
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Re: More shields
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2011, 04:15:17 PM »
how big is that 70?  18x18 or 24x24?  It appears to have a 1963 installation sticker; am I reading that right?
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Re: More shields
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2011, 04:18:35 PM »
The 70 is 24"x24", and the sticker does read 1963.
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Re: More shields
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2011, 04:30:01 PM »
According to a 1958 Richfield gas station map, it travelled along what is now County Road 70 west of Weiser- just a short spur along the Snake River. It appears to end about where the County Road 70 designation ends on Google

It looks like it has a sort of cloverleaf intersection with Spur 95, which is weird.
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Re: More shields
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2011, 04:39:58 PM »
Thanks for the info, corco.  I wish I knew that when I was there two months ago.
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Re: More shields
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2011, 04:43:13 PM »
Quote from: corco on December 04, 2011, 04:30:01 PM
It looks like it has a sort of cloverleaf intersection with Spur 95, which is weird.
That's because of the railroad underpass.
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« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2011, 05:05:16 PM »
Yeah but why did they need to build it on both sides? There are two bi-directional leaves for no apparent reason

Also, I wonder if there was a plan to build a bridge there at the west end of 70- it looks like another road would have connected on the Oregon side.  That would have been a neat Weiser bypass if Weiser had grown a little bit more
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Re: More shields
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2011, 05:35:53 PM »
Quote from: corco on December 04, 2011, 05:05:16 PM
Also, I wonder if there was a plan to build a bridge there at the west end of 70- it looks like another road would have connected on the Oregon side.  That would have been a neat Weiser bypass if Weiser had grown a little bit more
USGS calls the location Porters Ferry.

And apparently a bridge was planned: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19270311&id=UMxXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nfQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4504,1895983
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Re: More shields
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2011, 09:42:37 PM »
That bridge if coupled with a true bypass of Weiser would likely swing the very important McCall->Seattle corridor from US-95/WA-26 to that routing. That's about all it would do at this point, but that's too bad.
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Re: More shields
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2011, 10:26:15 PM »
The article mentions waiting for "Federal Designation" and aid.  Not sure what that means.  Was it intended to be a re-routing of US 630/30N?  It would be interesting to find out what happened to kill this bridge: did Oregon fail to contribute its share?

EDIT:  Another possibility is that the building of the Brownlee Dam downstream made the bridge impossible, although I think that dam wasn't built until decades later.
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Re: More shields
« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2011, 11:01:04 AM »
Quote from: xonhulu on December 04, 2011, 10:26:15 PM
The article mentions waiting for "Federal Designation" and aid.  Not sure what that means.
It means designation as a federal aid route.
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