photos of old signs on the internet

[Ian]

Probably either weathering, or termite damage, those signs are made of wood.

[Alex]

Probably either weathering, or termite damage, those signs are made of wood.

Did you see the one with the schwa?

[florida]

Gone.

[Ian]

Probably either weathering, or termite damage, those signs are made of wood.

Did you see the one with the schwa?

I did not see that one.

**image of Beeline Expressway shield**

Yea, I was just there, didn't see it. It was on George King Boulevard in Port Canaveral, right?

[US71]

(MO 266 cutout)

When I first saw this, it looked like you took a photo through a windshield that just had a bloody encounter with a deer.

1980's Polaroid that I had lost for several years. Once I found it (and the MO 96 cutout) I scanned them.

[florida]

**image of Beeline Expressway shield**

Yea, I was just there, didn't see it. It was on George King Boulevard in Port Canaveral, right?

No, but George King Boulevard does have A1A duplexing with itself for the South direction.

The signs in that picture were on FL 3 southbound.

[national highway 1]

Probably either weathering, or termite damage, those signs are made of wood.

Did you see the one with the schwa?

Uh...What is 'schwa'?

[shoptb1]

Uh...What is 'schwa'?

...The mid-central vowel sound (rounded or unrounded) in the middle of the vowel chart, stressed or unstressed. In IPA phonetic transcription, it is written as [ə]. In this case the term mid-central vowel may be used instead of schwa to avoid ambiguity....

more info -->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa

[Ian]

**image of Beeline Expressway shield**

Yea, I was just there, didn't see it. It was on George King Boulevard in Port Canaveral, right?

No, but George King Boulevard does have A1A duplexing with itself for the South direction.

The signs in that picture were on FL 3 southbound.

Ok I see it now. Street view just shows the gantry with an empty space for the Bee Line Expressway shield:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=28.406067,-80.70591&spn=0,0.019205&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=28.406155,-80.705907&panoid=e-clwtwZuUMzAZAAkZ0rvQ&cbp=12,221.05,,0,-1.34

[florida]

Ok I see it now. Street view just shows the gantry with an empty space for the Bee Line Expressway shield:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=28.406067,-80.70591&spn=0,0.019205&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=28.406155,-80.705907&panoid=e-clwtwZuUMzAZAAkZ0rvQ&cbp=12,221.05,,0,-1.34

Nice to see it was taken down somehow, but now, they've added South/East trailblazers to the same assembly.

[Mapmikey]

Here is another pic with signage from the old SCDOT History pages:

This is now SC 93 EB approaching the US 123 connector.  Back in 1957 this was the west end of the Easley Bypass


Mapmikey

[Alex]

Discovered this historical gallery tonight on the DelDOT web site. There are a handful of old sign photos scattered throughout the pages. Lots of nice shots of old concrete roads, bridges when they were first built, scenes showing rural roads that are now busy arterials, etc.

Sign finds:
A U.S. 113 cutout is found in the 1938 section.
Button copy sign bridge at the US 13 southbound ramp to US 40 and the Delaware Memorial Bridge on the 1952 section.
A 1955 image shows the sign standards of the time. Another shows then DE-14 at DE-18.
A 1962 image shows US 202 north at DE 141 with white/black text overheads.
A 1963 image shows DE 16 at US 113 with a US 113 cutout.
1964 is when cutouts were changed in style for US highways and Delaware state shields shifted to the circular cutouts.
The last sign of interest I found was a 1967 image showing overheads for Interstate 95 on what I believe is Delaware 141 north.

[Mapmikey]

WVU has a photo archive with shots of route signs and such:

http://images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all;op2=And;rgn2=ic_all;q1=route;size=20;c=wvcp;back=back1274105715;subview=detail;resnum=48;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=wvcp;entryid=x-012867;viewid=012867.JPG

http://images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all;op2=And;rgn2=ic_all;q1=route;size=20;c=wvcp;back=back1274106856;subview=detail;resnum=86;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=wvcp;entryid=x-014987;viewid=014987.JPG

http://images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all;op2=And;rgn2=ic_all;q1=route;size=20;c=wvcp;back=back1274106887;subview=detail;resnum=106;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=wvcp;entryid=x-013440;viewid=013440.JPG

http://images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all;op2=And;rgn2=ic_all;q1=route;size=20;c=wvcp;back=back1274106887;subview=detail;resnum=120;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=wvcp;entryid=x-012582;viewid=012582.JPG

http://images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all;op2=And;rgn2=ic_all;q1=route;size=20;c=wvcp;back=back1274106939;subview=detail;resnum=134;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=wvcp;entryid=x-006565;viewid=006565.JPG

http://images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all;op2=And;rgn2=ic_all;q1=route;size=20;c=wvcp;back=back1274106939;subview=detail;resnum=137;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=wvcp;entryid=x-008917;viewid=008917.JPG

http://images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all;op2=And;rgn2=ic_all;q1=route;size=20;c=wvcp;back=back1274107347;subview=detail;resnum=163;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=wvcp;entryid=x-015356;viewid=015356.JPG

THis one has no signs but check out the brick pavement...
http://images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all;op2=And;rgn2=ic_all;c=wvcp;q1=route;back=back1274107347;size=20;subview=detail;resnum=161;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=wvcp;entryid=x-012397;viewid=012397.JPG

http://images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all;op2=And;rgn2=ic_all;q1=highway;size=20;c=wvcp;back=back1274107459;subview=detail;resnum=9;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=wvcp;entryid=x-011030;viewid=011030.JPG

Mapmikey

[Ian]

Nice find Alex!

Button copy sign bridge at the US 13 southbound ramp to US 40 and the Delaware Memorial Bridge on the 1952 section.

Hmm, so Delaware did use buttoncopy freeway signs at one point.

[agentsteel53]

Hmm, so Delaware did use buttoncopy freeway signs at one point.

I do not believe that it is button copy in that picture.  I do not know what it is, though.

Delaware did use glass cateyes in shields, as can be seen in this photo:



note the 13, which is an independent-mount shield that they nailed to the guide sign.

[agentsteel53]

is the route number in a different color, or just extra-faded?

[Ian]

I thought it was buttoncopy myself when I first saw it, but I guess it isn't. May be just tacked on reflective lettering?

That white Delaware guide sign is awesome. Nice cat eye US 13!

[CanesFan27]

Bill Manning sent me a photo of a button copy overhead taken in Edmond, OK in August 1978.  Has I-35, US 66, and US 77 on it.

http://surewhynotnow.blogspot.com/2010/10/edmond-ok-road-signs-1977.html

[agentsteel53]

Bill Manning sent me a photo of a button copy overhead taken in Edmond, OK in August 1978.  Has I-35, US 66, and US 77 on it.

http://surewhynotnow.blogspot.com/2010/10/edmond-ok-road-signs-1977.html

cool!  looks like '70 spec interstate, and '61 spec US shields.  Nice mix, implying that OK switched to the '70 spec US shields a bit later than they switched interstate standards.

[Alex]

Bill sent us this one years ago from that same trip:

[Scott5114]

Of course, that is now where the I-44/I-40 interchange is, I-240 having been truncated in favor of I-44 in the 80s. Strange seeing an I-240 NORTH sign. Is there any way we can see more of his OKC-area photos from the 70s? I would love to see more.

[CanesFan27]

Some sign finds I came across while on business in Houston last week.

http://surewhynotnow.blogspot.com/2010/11/some-texas-sign-finds.html

button copy on the Sam Houston Tollway, a US 75 shield at a Rudy's BBQ, and an older I-45 Tx shield - (I hate that it's blurry!)

[agentsteel53]

cool find!  that's the only '57 spec Texas I know that survives.  Dunno how old it is since it is likely not a state issue.  There are some '61 spec I-610 shields around, both the 21x18 and 30x25 size, but this is the only known '57.

[CanesFan27]

Jake,

Do you need the location for your next travel through Houston?

[agentsteel53]

not for mine, but in general yes - Jeff Royston will be there soon, I am quite sure of that.