photos of old signs on the internet

[CanesFan27]

PA still has some button copy.  Check Philly or Pittsburgh, for example, where it's the rule instead of the exception.

Just take the Liberty Bridge into town...it was full of button copy in December...didn't take any photos though.  And there should still be a bunch on 279 and the surrounding surface streets on the North Shore.

[Ian]

PA still has some button copy.  Check Philly or Pittsburgh, for example, where it's the rule instead of the exception.

Just take the Liberty Bridge into town...it was full of button copy in December...didn't take any photos though.  And there should still be a bunch on 279 and the surrounding surface streets on the North Shore.

The West Chester By-Pass still has some original buttoncopy.




PA still has plenty of buttoncopy. It isn't that rare, at least in my area.

[mightyace]

PA still has some button copy.  Check Philly or Pittsburgh, for example, where it's the rule instead of the exception.

Around Bloomsburg, at Christmas, it is disappearing but not quickly.  It looks like the signs are only taken down when they need to be replaced.  I have some photos that I haven't posted yet of the Buckhorn interchange (Exit 234, PA 42/44) off of I-80.  The control points sign on the WB exit are still original button copy while the EB control points sign is Clearview!

But they are definitely in the minority around my home town.

[rickmastfan67]

And there should still be a bunch on 279 and the surrounding surface streets on the North Shore.

I-279 itself has no button copy.
EXCEPT one sign going onto I-279 from PA-65 that I know of.
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.448547,-80.011223&spn=0,359.993032&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.448543,-80.011102&panoid=9RA-3lBUhbBysSVFAtcUfA&cbp=12,94.34,,0,-10.73
I have a better picture of that one, but I can't find it right now.

There is however tons of button copy all around the Mellon Arena.

[Hellfighter]

Found a cutout!

it's in an undisclosed location.  Dick Cheney's house, perhaps.

[Mr_Northside]

PA still has some button copy.  Check Philly or Pittsburgh, for example, where it's the rule instead of the exception.

I can't speak for Philly, and I'm not sure how wide an area you're thinking of for Pittsburgh, but I don't know that I'd say that B.C. is the rule instead of the exception in Pittsburgh anymore.  (At least, not with the sign replacements related to the I-376 redesignation)

[rickmastfan67]

PA still has some button copy.  Check Philly or Pittsburgh, for example, where it's the rule instead of the exception.

I can't speak for Philly, and I'm not sure how wide an area you're thinking of for Pittsburgh, but I don't know that I'd say that B.C. is the rule instead of the exception in Pittsburgh anymore.  (At least, not with the sign replacements related to the I-376 redesignation)

Well, we can say it's the rule for I-579.  I think the only non-button copy signs for I-579 are at the I-279/I-579 split on the Northside.

[agentsteel53]

nice M-53 find!  That's a City of Detroit issue; note the rounded corners.  There were some M-3s like it up as late as 2006.

[thenetwork]

They had a few button-copy on US 6/50 near Mack (UT/CO Border), those have been replaced...Haven't traversed US 6 through Rifle in months, but the only one I remember seeing recently was a Button-Copy Glenwood Springs City Limit sign on Old US 6 west of the West Glenwood Exit. 

C-DOT just got that Glenwood Springs sign too over the last few weeks...And yet they still lead US-6 into a dead-end road!!! In fact, they ADDED a "To US-6" sign at CO-82 that leads to said dead end -- if you follow all the signs.

[thenetwork]

Here's one that as of yesterday (3/20/10) still survives in Eastern Utah just off of I-70. 

First Generation Button Copy from the early 70s:

[Ian]

Sign snaps of today:

[agentsteel53]

what did Utah use before the early 1970s?  the earliest photos I have are late 1970s shots from Michael Summa and they all show button copy.

[CanesFan27]

A reader sent me the photograph above trying to locate where in Pennsylvania it would have been taken.

The photo and more details about the general physical location can be found on the blog:

http://surewhynotnow.blogspot.com/2010/03/where-was-this-old-sign-photo-taken.html

[barcncpt44]

Here is a photo of an old yellow yield sign; snapped in rural Blount County, Alabama

[PAHighways]

A reader sent me the photograph above trying to locate where in Pennsylvania it would have been taken.

The photo and more details about the general physical location can be found on the blog:

http://surewhynotnow.blogspot.com/2010/03/where-was-this-old-sign-photo-taken.html

It's the Cresson Ridge Summit, just east of the town on Admiral Peary Highway near the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site in Cambria County.

Here is the Google Street View of the location as it looks now.

[rickmastfan67]

There is however tons of button copy all around the Mellon Arena.

Sounds like this sign's days are numbered.

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=450.msg57236#msg57236

[The Unknown Avenger]

Found a cutout!

it's in an undisclosed location.  Dick Cheney's house, perhaps.

HA HA HA HA HA Maybe there are others in George W. Bush's house along with 100 in Dick Cheney's house.

[Ian]

Shot these a week ago:

[US71]

New Orleans (taken last month)


This one is about to disappear: I-49 is getting sign upgrades   

[Alps]

New Orleans (taken last month)

Looks like Roosevelt Blvd. in Philly - are those two same-direction roadways next to each other?  Are there a lot of accidents?

[Alex]

A pic I took of it in 2002.

Its just a six-lane parkway. The sign is posted for the U.S. 90 turn from Gentilly Boulevard onto New Orleans Avenue.

[Hellfighter]

Boom, I found it. They said it existed, but no one had proof. Well here it is...



...it's not the best, but you can see the BUS SPUR I-696 shield, as well as a I-94 shield. I'll try to get a much better looking photo, I'll have to encode it in 1080p.

[bugo]

Boom, I found it. They said it existed, but no one had proof. Well here it is...

Judging from the dash that is a circa 1965 Chevy Chevelle.  Am I right?

[Mergingtraffic]

Shot these a week ago:

How does the top of the sign get torn off?  I can see the bottom from a truck but the top?

[jjakucyk]

Godzilla maybe?