Say, does anyone remember these? They didn't last long.
The modern school warning signs are pentagonal with a picture of kids crossing the street, but older ones (before the '70s) were the standard yellow diamond warning signs with the word "SCHOOL". You may have seen them.
But I actually remember seeing yellow signs with the modern pentagonal shape with just the word "SCHOOL". I don't remember many, and I don't think there were very many. There must have been a very brief period when they stopped using the diamond shape but before they started using pictures.
Anyone else remember them? I can't find any photographic evidence of them.
I doubt they were MUTCD standard. My guess is that a state or states experimented with the pentagon and then it was added to the 1970 MUTCD, same time as stuff was getting switched over to pictograms.
I know I've seen one of these as a news graphic.
You mean like this?
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi166.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu102%2Fctsignguy%2FConnecticut%2520Signs%2Fstcschoolsign2_zpsa6c4fe2f.jpg&hash=8e10ccc0760d14a1581bd69e06c2a70357f1407c)
Quote from: ctsignguy on September 22, 2014, 08:32:51 AM
You mean like this?
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi166.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu102%2Fctsignguy%2FConnecticut%2520Signs%2Fstcschoolsign2_zpsa6c4fe2f.jpg&hash=8e10ccc0760d14a1581bd69e06c2a70357f1407c)
I don't mean like that. The pentagon was pointed upward and had the same dimensions and shape as the modern pentagonal signs. And it just said "SCHOOL", not "SCHOOL ZONE".