photos of old signs on the internet

[Quillz]

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]

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

But Mississippi has cutouts

[hbelkins]

Found these beauties in Vermont last week:





















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

[CanesFan27]

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]

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

(Edit:  Image posted on Photobucket deleted)

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

[ctsignguy]

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

[Alps]

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]

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]

Lebo, KS


Ashdown, AR -- No longer exists


Near Pittsburg, KS


Williamsville, IL

[tvketchum]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Two items I found this weekend on MD 257


005 by Adam's Journey, on Flickr


019 by Adam's Journey, on Flickr

[US71]

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]

From the "Old Images of Philadelphia" Facebook page.

[US71]

From the "Old Images of Philadelphia" Facebook page.

Gorgeous!! 

[Jim]

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]

Circa 2002.


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

[US71]

And one from Illinois

[hbelkins]

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]

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.

[US71]

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.

Very little, if any. Last button copy I remember was for I-35 along MO 269 and that was Summer of 2008