The Best of Road Signs

[roadfro]

Do my eyes decieve me?! Is this...BUTTON COPY IN CANADA!? ITS BEAUTIFUL! (Calgary, AB, Canada) https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0650244,-114.0263039,3a,21.7y,1.48h,104.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sc9P39Rc_ES5ZmcoZdzpM4Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Nope, it's the real deal...the only button copy I've seen in Canada, though I'm far from an expert on that.



Hold up...why is there a dash between "Medicine" and "Hat"?

Are "Medicine" and "Hat" the names of two different communities? I recognize this isn't a photo from the U.S., but using a dash is the MUTCD-preferred method of separating two words on the  same line of a legend (per 2A.13 and 2E.17).

[J N Winkler]

Are "Medicine" and "Hat" the names of two different communities? I recognize this isn't a photo from the U.S., but using a dash is the MUTCD-preferred method of separating two words on the  same line of a legend (per 2A.13 and 2E.17).

No, Medicine Hat, Alberta is one community whose name is usually written as an open compound.  I'm not sure why it appears on this sign with a hyphen.

[kphoger]

old Hooters & Circle K signs

The new Circle K and old Circle K logos are so similar, I couldn't even determined the difference at first.

[planxtymcgillicuddy]

old Hooters & Circle K signs

The new Circle K and old Circle K logos are so similar, I couldn't even determined the difference at first.

It's amazing how many out-of-date logos you'll see on the blue signs here. Motel 6 is the most notorious of the bunch

[ipeters61]

I was visiting family in New Hope PA yesterday.  I've driven by this glorious non-reflective button copy several times but finally took a photo:

[Mergingtraffic]

I'd consider this a best because it seems hard to find a well spaced out logo services sign.  Either the panels are mismatched or the font is off etc.


I-84 Danbury, CT.

[csw]

Gonna slap another cutout in here. They're not the most rare, but they still look great. Clifton Forge, VA.

[formulanone]

A blue Loop 101 sign with button copy still lurks in Scottsdale, Arizona, with some overheads nearby:

[freebrickproductions]

Found this embossed yellow yield sign in Albertville, AL, recently:
Embossed Yellow Yield Sign by freebrickproductions, on Flickr
Embossed Yellow Yield Sign by freebrickproductions, on Flickr
Embossed Yellow Yield Sign by freebrickproductions, on Flickr
Embossed Yellow Yield Sign by freebrickproductions, on Flickr
Embossed Yellow Yield Sign by freebrickproductions, on Flickr
Embossed Yellow Yield Sign by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

[kphoger]

From the pictures, that YIELD sign looks like it serves no purpose.

[freebrickproductions]

From the pictures, that YIELD sign looks like it serves no purpose.

It more or less guards a private driveway leading to a truck lot.

[kphoger]

Yeah.  What I'm getting at is that there's no intersection immediately beyond the sign.  What, exactly, is one supposed to yield to?

[freebrickproductions]

Yeah.  What I'm getting at is that there's no intersection immediately beyond the sign.  What, exactly, is one supposed to yield to?

Traffic on the road that the driveway connects to.
Here's where it is:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2851757,-86.2171606,3a,49.1y,348.27h,84.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxfY8N577dZSo5lvMYFnBAA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[csw]

Dayton, OH, is the place to be for old button copy.

[Mergingtraffic]

Still on eof my favorites from Baltimore, MD.

[roadman]

Still on eof my favorites from Baltimore, MD.

Life Like, a train company based in the Baltimore area, used to offer a model of this very sign as a scenic accessory - it was packaged with an illuminated overhead sign on a cantilever support.

[roadman65]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/33438500338/in/photostream

The signs both FDOT and MDOT both use on freeways at county lines.😀

Of course partial due to living in a Florida but good format though.

[Max Rockatansky]

Some 1990s button-copy signs on eastbound Ashlan Avenue headed towards CA 168/Sierra Freeway:

Untitled by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Untitled by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

[7/8]

I found this button copy sign in Columbus last summer. I took the below photo, but Google Maps' street view is better quality: https://www.google.ca/maps/@39.9692026,-82.9975248,3a,43.1y,338.38h,91.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCvG3N_ji-N_LMDSnzyLe2Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[formulanone]

I found an older-style Wisconsin Trunk Highway sign with "WIS":

[formulanone]

Market Street (NJ 33) at US 1 in Trenton:

[Roadrunner75]

Life Like, a train company based in the Baltimore area, used to offer a model of this very sign as a scenic accessory - it was packaged with an illuminated overhead sign on a cantilever support.

I had that model sign when I was a kid in the 80s and used it on my network of roads in the sandbox.  It's probably still sitting in one of the boxes of Matchbox cars and other toys that my own kid is playing with now.  I remember thinking how cool it was when I found out the sign was modeled after a real sign and there was in fact a real Jones Falls Expressway.

[StogieGuy7]

I found an older-style Wisconsin Trunk Highway sign with "WIS":

There are a bunch of these along CTH's in Kenosha County and I always admire them for how much better they look than what the state uses for badges. Kudos to the Kenosha County Highway Department for being resistant to change!

[ipeters61]

Here's an interesting all text, probably older, "Do Not Enter" sign in Laurel DE.

[formulanone]

^ I think the red/white Do Not Enter signs date back to the 1971 MUTCD.

Found an old Alabama captive county sign last week: