The Best of Road Signs

[US 89]

This is, to my knowledge, the last button-copy sign in Utah:



It’s on southbound US-89 right before the Beck Street interchange north of Salt Lake City.

Wasn't there a button copy sign still hanging on near the I-80?
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7143002,-111.785947,3a,75y,230.65h,106.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFFxQxssOpXg0-PkYCDZpCQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

There was. Those were replaced last summer, along with all the other old signage and gantries in that area.

[Scott5114]

Excellent photography, but the signs are pretty standard for California. The digits on the 395 are compressed a bit, and that End plate is about half as tall as it should be (both qualifying for the Design Errors thread).

I have driven a large chunk of the southern part of US 395 in California and I don't think I have seen an independent-mount US 395 shield that didn't have compressed Series D digits.

Pretty much all the cut-out US Route shields in California have that compressed numeral look. 

Fair enough, I guess. I'm more sensitive to compressed digits than most because, well, Oklahoma.

[Mergingtraffic]

Original NY Thruway shield

[Rothman]

Still standing in Chicago, as of last week:

Where is this, exactly?

[MNHighwayMan]

Where is this, exactly?

With a little help from the sign in the background (Stony Island Ave) and some perseverance, I found it here.

[Rothman]

Thanks.  I might be headed to Chicago this summer.  Hope it is still there.

[formulanone]

Thanks.  I might be headed to Chicago this summer.  Hope it is still there.

I parked at the McDonald's across the street from the sign. Hey, for $5, it's the cheapest parking in the city, and it came with a warm McGriddle and hot coffee.

If I had the time, I'd see some of the museums, but I had a flight at Midway to catch.

[Ian]

I came across this 1960's era LeHay font ME 203 shield the other day. I measures only 16x12" and is made of steel, and is the only one I know of in this style still remaining out in the field. It's at the south end of 203 in Waldo, Maine.

[Tom958]

Not in Athens, GA, but in Opelika, AL, about ten miles from the edge of Auburn University's campus. This is at US 431, a.k.a. Bulldog Parkway, and former US 29. The Dawgs are those of Opelika High School, not UGA.

[formulanone]

Though the shields aren't anything special, old slatted guide signs are slowly disappearing in Alabama:


I-20/59 East/North: Exit 124AB I-65 North/South by formulanone, on Flickr

This one's probably getting scrapped after replacement for the massive I-20/59 and I-65 construction and re-signage project. Would love to at least have the left-side panel in my garage!

[Tom958]

This one's probably getting scrapped after replacement for the massive I-20/59 and I-65 construction and re-signage project.

Actually, it's been gone for over a year, as I happened to have posted today.

[formulanone]

This one's probably getting scrapped after replacement for the massive I-20/59 and I-65 construction and re-signage project.

Actually, it's been gone for over a year, as I happened to have posted today.

Oh, I just wan't sure if it wasn't going to wind up in a museum, bar, or something in between.

[KEVIN_224]

About the old slatted BGS signs from Alabama ^^^

Were those designed as such due to wind loading? There used to be "slatted" overhead signs on I-95 South in Portsmouth, NH. They were just after Exit 7 (Woodbury Avenue), a couple minutes after you had come off the Piscataqua River Bridge from Kittery, Maine.

[ThatRandomOshawott]

I saw some slatted signs in Mobile last year. Also last year, I saw an old button-copy sign on US Route 60 in Southeast MO. It was one of those Gas/Lodging/etc. signs, though it no longer had any businesses on it.

[freebrickproductions]

About the old slatted BGS signs from Alabama ^^^

Were those designed as such due to wind loading? There used to be "slatted" overhead signs on I-95 South in Portsmouth, NH. They were just after Exit 7 (Woodbury Avenue), a couple minutes after you had come off the Piscataqua River Bridge from Kittery, Maine.

From what I understand, yes.

[PHLBOS]

About the old slatted BGS signs from Alabama ^^^

Were those designed as such due to wind loading? There used to be "slatted" overhead signs on I-95 South in Portsmouth, NH. They were just after Exit 7 (Woodbury Avenue), a couple minutes after you had come off the Piscataqua River Bridge from Kittery, Maine.

From what I understand, yes.

I remember those slotted BGS' along I-95 as well. 
I-495 in DE has a couple of those slatted overhead BGS' just south of the Christiana River crossing.

[adventurernumber1]

I absolutely love those slatted BGS'ses.     

I believe I have most often seen them on Google Maps Street-View in the Mobile, Alabama area.

[freebrickproductions]

I absolutely love those slatted BGS'ses.     

I believe I have most often seen them on Google Maps Street-View in the Mobile, Alabama area.

Same here! There's a few in Huntsville, but I remember a good number in Birmingham as well. Montgomery has some as well.

[adventurernumber1]

I absolutely love those slatted BGS'ses.     

I believe I have most often seen them on Google Maps Street-View in the Mobile, Alabama area.

Same here! There's a few in Huntsville, but I remember a good number in Birmingham as well. Montgomery has some as well.

I remember seeing some in Birmingham on GMSV many times before. And actually, I spent a good 10 to 20 minutes hunting one down in that area to add to my earlier post (the one which you quoted), but for some reason this time it was to no avail (I think I just spent too much time in too small of an area and on too small a number of roads when looking). My most vivid memory of seeing these things there was on a highway in downtown Birmingham, but I just can't remember the exact details of where and what it was (besides being a slatted BGS on a highway in downtown Birmingham).

[freebrickproductions]

I absolutely love those slatted BGS'ses.     

I believe I have most often seen them on Google Maps Street-View in the Mobile, Alabama area.

Same here! There's a few in Huntsville, but I remember a good number in Birmingham as well. Montgomery has some as well.

I remember seeing some in Birmingham on GMSV many times before. And actually, I spent a good 10 to 20 minutes hunting one down in that area to add to my earlier post (the one which you quoted), but for some reason this time it was to no avail (I think I just spent too much time in too small of an area and on too small a number of roads when looking). My most vivid memory of seeing these things there was on a highway in downtown Birmingham, but I just can't remember the exact details of where and what it was (besides being a slatted BGS on a highway in downtown Birmingham).

There were a number of 20/59 in downtown Birmingham prior to the bridge reconstruction project.

[Mapmikey]

I absolutely love those slatted BGS'ses.     

I believe I have most often seen them on Google Maps Street-View in the Mobile, Alabama area.

Same here! There's a few in Huntsville, but I remember a good number in Birmingham as well. Montgomery has some as well.

I remember seeing some in Birmingham on GMSV many times before. And actually, I spent a good 10 to 20 minutes hunting one down in that area to add to my earlier post (the one which you quoted), but for some reason this time it was to no avail (I think I just spent too much time in too small of an area and on too small a number of roads when looking). My most vivid memory of seeing these things there was on a highway in downtown Birmingham, but I just can't remember the exact details of where and what it was (besides being a slatted BGS on a highway in downtown Birmingham).

There were a number of 20/59 in downtown Birmingham prior to the bridge reconstruction project.

When I drove 20-59 through Birmingham in January, there were about a dozen or so still up at interchanges for US 78, I-65, and US 31-280.  A few in each direction.

[formulanone]

Quite sure this is FHWA Series A, unless it's a faded/peeling application. Somewhere in Mississippi, last week:

[Scott5114]

Yeah, that's Series A. Great find!

[jakeroot]

Yeah, that's Series A. Great find!

Indeed! I have never seen Series A in the flesh before. I thought all previous examples were removed (and that NZTA was the only agency world-wide still using the glyphs).

[Rothman]

KY doesn't use it?