signs in television shows/movies

[agentsteel53]

I do not believe we have a thread just to collect this sort of image yet (mods: correct me if I am wrong!)

this was on the TV show Supernatural: episode "Everybody Loves a Clown" (S2 E2).  I've noted elsewhere that their prop department has a slightly screwy idea of what signs go where, as they put a California style US 6 cutout in Missouri for a season 1 episode (titled "Highway 666" - apparently their prop department couldn't afford two more digit 6es?), and in another episode they captioned a dusty two laner in supposedly east Texas as "I-35" (no shield for that)...

then yesterday, as I was watching S2 E2, this pops up.



that's a 1917-1931 or so Wisconsin triangle, except it looked to be 24" tall (based on the characters walking past it), and it looks like it just says "STATE ROUTE" instead of "STATE TRUNK HIGHWAY", and is missing the frame, but someone certainly did half their research to get that design, as the WIS at the bottom is almost completely accurate.

apologies for the shit photo - I paused the show and took a photo with my phone camera!

here's a genuine article, btw.  it is 16 inches tall.

[Brandon]

Odd that they would use such an old sign for Wisconsin instead of the current route marker.

[agentsteel53]

Odd that they would use such an old sign for Wisconsin instead of the current route marker.

very odd.  certainly odd enough to catch my attention.

[roadman65]

Perfect Strangers (former ABC Friday Night) used to feature the "Welcome To Chicago" sign on I-190 leaving O' Hare during its opening sequence.   https://maps.google.com/maps?q=O%27Hare,+Chicago,+IL&hl=en&ll=41.977327,-87.887321&spn=0.006971,0.013797&sll=27.698638,-83.804601&sspn=8.494959,14.128418&oq=o+har&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.977117,-87.887912&panoid=nL5yuzHeS93iyeqP4379GQ&cbp=12,71.5,,0,-15.99  The sign has changed since then, but this was the assembly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbnLYROCj8 Here is the intro scene to that particular sitcom and you can see the sign what it was.

[Scott5114]

Supernatural does a lot of screwy stuff with signs. In Season 4, episode 10 ("Heaven and Hell"), one of the climactic scenes takes place in front of what appears to be a cutout US-42 sign. A lot of the early seasons feature prominent signs done up in Helvetica, although by some point in season 2 (the episode with some small town in Indiana worshiping a pagan fertility god), the prop department seems to have purchased a copy of Clearview. The first time I can remember seeing a proper FHWA series font is when Series D appears in Season 4, episode 5 ("Monster Movie")...for an "authorized personnel only" sign in a museum.

Still, though, it's a pretty awesome show. Castiel is hilarious.

[D-Dey65]

There was an old thread about this, I'll get the link later, but I found something that was just entered to IMCDb on the movie "A Ticklish Affair."

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_57583-A-Ticklish-Affair.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057583/combined

Dig the button-copy Stop sign.

[hubcity]

I interject here only to note that "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World" will be out on DVD/BluRay in its most complete version ever, via Criterion in January...

[PHLBOS]

I interject here only to note that "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World" will be out on DVD/BluRay in its most complete version ever, via Criterion in January...

Early on in that movie, one does see a CA 1 reassurance shield (white w/black numeral) postd along the road.

[hbelkins]

A couple of Kentucky examples.

In "Fire Down Below," which is set in eastern Kentucky, a truck crashes into a set of fake signs for KY 80 and KY 476. Funny thing is, the scene appears to be shot at the actual intersection of the route. I don't know if the signs were added in later, or if a set of replacement signs was installed for the photo shoot.

In "Road Trip," the actual US 119 and KY 292 markers that are in place just south of the KY/WV state line are visible.

Unfortunately, I don't have screen shots.

[route17fan]

If anyone can secure a copy of Woody Allen's movie "Manhattan" - a black and white movie from 1974-ish, there are some great shots coming off the GWB on eastbound/northbound I-95 and button copy TRAPEZOIDS transitioning to the southbound HHP/NY 9A. Definitely worth it!

[Pete from Boston]

If anyone can secure a copy of Woody Allen's movie "Manhattan" - a black and white movie from 1974-ish, there are some great shots coming off the GWB on eastbound/northbound I-95 and button copy TRAPEZOIDS transitioning to the southbound HHP/NY 9A. Definitely worth it!

Oh, the trapezoids.  Are there still any?  They seem so part of that landscape, as in:

George
Washington
Bridge

that I can scarcely imagine them being "historical."

Very specifically, I picture this shape on a sign at Lemoine Ave/Bridge Plaza S. 

Where did this shape evolve out of?

[route17fan]

If there are any, they are rapidly being replaced. I knew of a few - one on Amsterdam Ave at 95 and the other on US 9 at the bridge (NY side - I don't recall seeing any more in NJ)

[D-Dey65]

Here's another stop sign from a movie; "A Slight Case of Larceny," from 1953;

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_775711.html

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_46329-A-Slight-Case-of-Larceny.html

[gibranalnn]

NOTE: we have another similar thread:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=368.0

Please move this to the "Highways/Signs in Movies, TV Shows, ..." thread.