I thought Armour was a place until I looked at a map. The line item between the shopping center driveway/ Armour and Woodlawn is confusing.
Also Kellogg still signs Hillside, Rock, Grove, etc.
Towne East Drive, which runs from Kellogg to Douglas, was originally part of Armour Street. I suspect Simon Property Group (which owns the mall) of having engineered the renaming in effect to obtain free advertising, since malls don't qualify for traffic generator signing in Kansas.
The ruled line between the Towne East Drive/Armour and Woodlawn blocks is designed to convey that they are separate intersections, but this is admittedly not of much help to stranger drivers, and other signs in town that also use ruled lines don't necessarily follow the same grouping rule (e.g.
"Ridge Rd, Dugan Rd/Eisenhower Natl Airport" rather than "Ridge Rd, Eisenhower Natl Airport/Dugan Rd").
Much of the signing on Kellogg is original to construction of the various interchanges and is due for replacement.
Why not add Southwest Blvd in the empty space above it?
That sign is now gone, since it was replaced as part of upgrading I-235/US 54 from a cloverleaf to a stack/turban hybrid.
Presumably that space was originally occupied by a shield of some kind (I'm sure J.N. could tell us what it was).
It held shields for K-2 and K-42, both of which used to terminate at Kellogg. In the 1990's, K-2 was pruned back to Suppesville (west end of the former K-2/K-42 overlap that ended in Wichita) and K-42 to its interchange with I-235.
An erroneous K-2 shield persisted on an I-235 interchange sequence sign for almost 20 years.
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