photos of old signs on the internet

[PurdueBill]

Is it for the same reason that there was a divider line on later CO signs (destination below the line reached by another highway along the way)?

[florida]

Colored U.S. 41 shield and SR 45 keys shield - Brooksville:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ghs1922/6744796045/in/set-72157628197681743

Versus today
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.554885,-82.38785,3a,75y,31.53h,71.03t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1slPxfxaFQQQNJG5jUyk1gkA!2e0

It's good to know Main Street was indeed signed as (a leg of) FL 45.

[NE2]

Interesting that they didn't sign SR 45 left, right, and straight. I guess by then they had decided not to sign carrier routes.

(No, SR 50 was not here when Broad was two-way; instead it was on Jefferson. As was US 98.)

[national highway 1]

Here is an old Ring Road 5 sign from the late 60s-early 70s, possibly around the Parramatta area in western Sydney, which I found on Tumblr.
Ring Road 5 was one of the three Ring Roads introduced in 1964 to help motorists navigate around Sydney. The routes 1, 3 and 5 were later superseded by the new State Route system in 1974, replaced by SR11, 33 and 55 respectively. SR 11 was decommissioned in 1993, SR33 was replaced by Metroad 3 in 1993 and A3 in 2013, while SR55 was decommissioned in 2004.

[NE2]

Not exactly very old (I'm probably older) but http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/24/Southpinellas/Elevation_On_signs__i.shtml

[Alex]

Construction of Interstate 80

A handful of photos of Interstate construction in the Omaha area. H/T Matt of twcclassics.com

[DevalDragon]

Where are the I-71s? I have found a few 75s, but not a 71.

There are a bunch of city-installed I-75 (and I-71) signs on various streets in Cincinnati, both fairly new and very faded.

any others with the state name?

[jakeroot]

Versus today
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.554885,-82.38785,3a,75y,31.53h,71.03t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1slPxfxaFQQQNJG5jUyk1gkA!2e0

I've never seen a UPS van with a trailer attached like so.

[D-Dey65]

I've never seen a UPS van with a trailer attached like so.

I've seen plenty of those.

[jakeroot]

I've never seen a UPS van with a trailer attached like so.

I've seen plenty of those.

I guess we don't have them in the NW US.

[Alex]

Where are the I-71s? I have found a few 75s, but not a 71.

There are a bunch of city-installed I-75 (and I-71) signs on various streets in Cincinnati, both fairly new and very faded.

any others with the state name?

There are no I-71 Ohio shields left. Outside of the I-75's in Lockland, there is just the one for I-70 in Columbus.

[Avalanchez71]

You got chased out of town for taking a picture of a sign?

not quite. 

I was stopped in the middle of an intersection which had US-24, I-70, and KS-25 signs; my foot on the brake, with the camera resting on the steering wheel for a medium-long exposure shot.  absolutely no traffic, except when I moved along, a few seconds later, the sheriff (who had been, apparently, a block or three away with his lights off) pulled me over and asked me just what I had been doing stopped in the middle of the intersection like that.

I told him that I had gotten disoriented and had been comparing the signs to my map.  I quickly asked for directions back to I-70, and he told me to take 25 south.  to make sure that I did, he followed me.

it was a reasonable response on his part; it wasn't anywhere near I was "chased out of town", as much as I was lucky to not get a ticket.

That is a clue of impairment.  He may have thought you were DUI.

[kurumi]

Digging up this perfectly peaceful, at-rest thread for an New England Interstate Route 3 reference I haven't seen before:



Link at Hartford Courant, but with not much additional info.

[kurumi]

170,000 photographs online at Yale, taken from 1935 to 1945 by the U.S. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI), searchable: http://photogrammar.yale.edu/search/

You can search by... let's say, highway sign. And find things like this:
* US 40 at CO 14: http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa2000046428/PP
* US 95 at ID 12: http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa2000021220/PP
* a rural-looking City Route [US] 12 in Chicago: http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa1997010999/PP
* US 77/81/84 and TX 67, Waco (think we've seen this elsewhere): http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa1998000011/PP

There's more, and a bunch of non-highway stuff.

[thenetwork]

And talk about your Sign Salad, as discussed in another post:
http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa1997017034/PP

[D-Dey65]

170,000 photographs online at Yale, taken from 1935 to 1945 by the U.S. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI), searchable: http://photogrammar.yale.edu/search/

You can search by... let's say, highway sign. And find things like this:
* US 40 at CO 14: http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa2000046428/PP
* US 95 at ID 12: http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa2000021220/PP
* a rural-looking City Route [US] 12 in Chicago: http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa1997010999/PP
* US 77/81/84 and TX 67, Waco (think we've seen this elsewhere): http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa1998000011/PP

There's more, and a bunch of non-highway stuff.

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa1997010999/PP

"Speed Limit 148!"    Funny stuff!

[roadman65]

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa1998016627/PP I like this classic photo taken in 1941 on the Merrit Parkway in CT.  Though not of the road's signage, but a great find on the link a few posts back as the roads themselves then were just as impressive as their signs were.

Anyway here is one of the signs that I find interesting.   I take these were the local speed laws and not the open road at the time. http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa1998000008/PP
And I thought the speed limit sign on the Indiana Toll Road was overkill.

[agentsteel53]

I take these were the local speed laws and not the open road at the time. http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa1998000008/PP

Texas has the modern descendent of those at the state line.  they are huge (maybe 12x8 feet) and describe the speed limits of all vehicle classifications.  I alas cannot find a photo offhand.

[D-Dey65]

Just found another one on Pintrest:

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/247346204507645551/

[Brandon]

Yet another old I-90 hiding out near the Eisenhower Expressway.

[Zeffy]

Holy crap. That sign is faded to all oblivion. Interesting circular TO though. Has that been seen anywhere else?

[route17fan]

Excellent find!!

[Mergingtraffic]

still hanging around in New Jersey.

[amroad17]

^ I wonder if the "E" in CHALLENGER is covering up an "A" as in CHALLANGER.  The US 46 and I-95 signs must have been put up in the early 1970's.

I also like the NEW Overpeck County Park sign with the outlined NEW.  I wonder where OLD Overpeck County Park is?

[hbelkins]

Went by to see an old friend yesterday. They've put a foddershock in front of it, but it's still standing, but looking worse each time I see it: