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Historic signage for previous routings?

Started by US-175, October 03, 2017, 05:53:46 AM

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Quote from: kphoger on January 03, 2018, 02:02:28 PM
Quote from: ilpt4u on October 04, 2017, 01:28:10 AM
Old 13 is designated as such in Southern IL where the road has shifted to the new IL 13

Old 51 is also designated in Southern IL, again parallel to the new US 51. In Northern IL, old US 51 has been signed as IL 251

In Southern IN, Old 37 is designated, the previous route before the IN 37 Divided Highway opened (which is currently being upgraded to I-69 between Indy and Bloomington)

I don't know if any of these have shields, but there certainly are Street Signs that designate the routes as "Old ##"

I'm not familiar with the Indiana one, but both 13 and 51 in Illinois are not signed with shields.  That's just the name of the road, which is by no means an uncommon thing.
Yeah, there aren't any old shields in Indiana, but street blades that say "Old #" are everywhere. Nothing really too special.


Max Rockatansky

Auburn, California has Lincoln Highway Signage:

IMG_0297 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

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Interestingly, there's a continuous bit of signage for Historic US 99 in the Boyle Heights district of Los Angeles; from north to south it follows San Fernando Road down to Broadway, where the street becomes Avenue 20; it follows that south to Main Street before turning east.  Main Street is signed all the way to where it segues onto Valley Blvd.; and that road has historic signage until it crosses over the UP tracks.  What is interesting is that the signage (a late '40's button-copy shield in Highway Gothic on a tan rectangle) indicates that the route was active until 1934; CH & PW maps of the era show that LRN 4/US 99 SB veered onto Avenue 26 (as it did until the I-5 freeway was opened in 1961) down to Macy Street, then south on Macy, which turned east and became Marengo Ave. to Soto St., where LRN 4 turned south to Whittier Blvd/US 101, where it ended.  After 1934 US 99 turned onto the Ramona Parkway from Marengo to join US 60 and, later, US 70.  Apparently Valley Blvd., LRN 77 until 1963 (later ending at the L.A. city limits) continued into Boyle Heights and onto Main Street as US 60 and 99; until the Figueroa Tunnels were constructed, US 99 turned north at Macy Street, not Avenue 20 (LRN 77/US 60 continued southwest on Main St. to US 101).  Apparently the posters of the historical signage chose the wrong route for US 99; why they did so is a mystery.  Also -- there is pre-1930 historical signage on Broadway, a few blocks north, for US 66 -- although it's unclear that US 66 ever was officially designated over that street.  Since between 1926 and 1934 the routes seemed to shift almost yearly in that area, it's possible that misinformation may have gotten to the historical societies responsible for the signage.   



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