photos of old signs on the internet

[agentsteel53]

only on a per-direction basis.  west yellow, east blue, north blue, south red

[hbelkins]

The only "custom" fonts I am aware is/was the Pittsburgh Department of Public Works - which both of the signs in the photos were installed by - and the Allegheny County Sign Shop.  I don't recall/know of anything being distinctive for Pennsylvania as a whole.

These are some examples, but I've always thought that PA used some unusual fonts for route markers, especially the 2's and the 4's, and I've seen them all over the state.

[Alps]

These are some examples, but I've always thought that PA used some unusual fonts for route markers, especially the 2's and the 4's, and I've seen them all over the state.

And 9's.  They're finally using MUTCD fonts but I wonder how they were using their variant for so much longer than any other state.

[CanesFan27]

well hell...I guess when you grew up in PA and so used to seeing them..you just don't consider them as 'custom'!

[Ian]

I think PennDOT may still be using that font. I saw some brand new PA 352 shields installed with the font (they weren't new old stock, as they had the "10" printed on the bottom of the shield) in Lima.

[njroadhorse]

I think PennDOT may still be using that font. I saw some brand new PA 352 shields installed with the font (they weren't new old stock, as they had the "10" printed on the bottom of the shield) in Lima.

Well some of the new ones in SEPA have another weird custom font that has what looks like way more narrow numbers.

[D-Dey65]

Has anybody else ever seen Fire Station warning signs that are red and white instead of yellow and black? Some 30-odd years ago, I saw one on Hulse Landing Road in Wading River, New York near Wildwood State Park. I'm so sorry I didn't have a camera on me back then.

[US71]

Has anybody else ever seen Fire Station warning signs that are red and white instead of yellow and black? Some 30-odd years ago, I saw one on Hulse Landing Road in Wading River, New York near Wildwood State Park. I'm so sorry I didn't have a camera on me back then.

About 10-15 years ago in Bentonville, AR... but I never got a photo.

[Mapmikey]

You mean like this?



I found this in Ivanhoe, VA in Sept 2010.

Mapmikey
Co-curator Virginia Hwys Project
www.vahighways.com

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Old Signs I saw in Delaware yesterday

[D-Dey65]

You mean like this?



I found this in Ivanhoe, VA in Sept 2010.

Mapmikey
Co-curator Virginia Hwys Project
www.vahighways.com

Not at all. It's more like the standard W11-8 signs:
http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2003r1r2/part2/fig2c-09_longdesc.htm
but the background is red, and the fire truck is white.

[MDOTFanFB]

1961-spec I-75 and cutout U.S. 10 signs on Trumbull Street in Detroit, both with the "MICHIGAN" state name! Probably dates to when I-75 was completed behind Tiger Stadium. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=42.335223,-83.069086&spn=0,0.006845&z=18&layer=c&cbll=42.335297,-83.069128&panoid=ztcCvLVpsUj2OLiRVc_a4Q&cbp=12,206.39,,2,-7.44

[agentsteel53]

there was a second US-10 shield across the street until a couple years ago.

[MDOTFanFB]

However though, if you're in Detroit, you will never find a way onto U.S. 10, because it was scaled back to Bay City in 1986. It was replaced by M-10 in Detroit.

[Brian556]

Here's one from the Michael Summa Collection on Millennium Highway
http://www.millenniumhwy.net/summa/summa-Pages/Image507.html

[MDOTFanFB]

One of the button-copy signs I got pics of today:

[Roadsign199qc]

Hey, an erroneous sign!

[florida]

^^ That's what PA secretly wants to do with US 220!

[US71]

I don't think this sign is that old, but it's one of the last button-copys near Sallisaw.

[MDOTFanFB]

I don't think this sign is that old, but it's one of the last button-copys near Sallisaw.

That sign has faded from a brown color to a greenish-red color!

[Mikeroburst]

However though, if you're in Detroit, you will never find a way onto U.S. 10, because it was scaled back to Bay City in 1986. It was replaced by M-10 in Detroit.

Here's the old street view of the other US-10 shield:


It looks like all traces of it are gone now that Detroit is mostly on high-res street view. There was a time a few months ago when google was transitioning to the high-res imagery in Detroit when you could see that shield in one frame, then step one frame away and sadly see it gone in the high-res. There are a handful of other MICHIGAN/US 10 shields (not standalone cutouts) on "little green signs" throughout the city if you poke around. Not sure if those were put up by MDOT or the city though.   

[agentsteel53]

yep, those little green signs are City of Detroit jobs and date back to before the decommissioning.

[MDOTFanFB]

yep, those little green signs are City of Detroit jobs and date back to before the decommissioning.

They were probably put up sometime in the 1970's (or 1980)

BTW I have found an old street sign in the same city! That happens to be 1950's (or 60's) vintage black-on-white signs, newer Detroit street signs are white-on-green. The stop sign below is newer. Here's the street view: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=42.380889,-83.275133&spn=0,0.01369&z=17&layer=c&cbll=42.380808,-83.275134&panoid=jcWyI1uuhKsKQQnlP-APjg&cbp=12,56.67,,2,0.47

[Roadsign199qc]

^^ That's what PA secretly wants to do with US 220!

OK...

[jemacedo9]

PennDOT still uses the PA font for route signs today...  District 6 subcontracts out their signs, I think they are replaced roughly every 10 years, and I believe the company is a NJ-based company.  I'm usually not happy with the contractor-manufactured signs...the keystone angles are off, the fonts have changed each installation, etc. 

The PennDOT logo is at the bottom-center of all PennDOT-manufactured signs.