There are several I-695 scenes from the early days of the route for sale on E-bay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BS-PHOTO-big-658-Beltway-Traffic-Signs-Baltimore-County-/191405576374?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item2c90a950b6
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BS-PHOTO-big-650-Beltway-Traffic-Signs-Baltimore-County-/191400872039?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item2c90618867
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BS-PHOTO-big-659-Beltway-Traffic-Signs-Baltimore-County-/390968819852?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item5b078ec08c
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BS-PHOTO-big-651-Beltway-Traffic-Signs-Baltimore-County-/390984888247?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item5b0883efb7
Mapmikey
Thanks for sharing these links. These are from the old Baltimore Sun archives. The first one is actually on I-95 approaching the Beltway, the old JFK Highway Exit 2. I had forgotten that there were non-button copy shields on those early signs.
Quote from: Mapmikey on November 28, 2014, 09:28:22 PM
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BS-PHOTO-big-659-Beltway-Traffic-Signs-Baltimore-County-/390968819852?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item5b078ec08c
OMG, want!!!!!! This is the exit to my mom's house (and where I grew up).
Quote from: MDRoads on November 29, 2014, 03:01:03 PM
Thanks for sharing these links. These are from the old Baltimore Sun archives. The first one is actually on I-95 approaching the Beltway, the old JFK Highway Exit 2. I had forgotten that there were non-button copy shields on those early signs.
About what year is this? There are four lanes on each side of the JFK highway...
back of the photo says Dec 1 68
Mapmikey
Quote from: Mapmikey on December 02, 2014, 09:26:32 AM
back of the photo says Dec 1 68
Which makes sense given that one of the photos shows the back of a white '68 Ford Galaxie 500 4-door sedan (a barely one-year-old car then).
Quote from: MDRoads on November 29, 2014, 03:01:03 PM
Thanks for sharing these links. These are from the old Baltimore Sun archives. The first one is actually on I-95 approaching the Beltway, the old JFK Highway Exit 2. I had forgotten that there were non-button copy shields on those early signs.
Note that there is no 695 shield for the Beltway's Inner Loop toward U.S. 40 and Essex, perhaps because the SRC did not want to mislead motorists into turning onto a "dead-end" (since this was taken years before the F.S. Key Bridge was completed with approaches in 1977).
Or more simply it wasn't I-695. It's still officially MD 695.
Quote from: NE2 on December 03, 2014, 01:59:03 PM
Or more simply it wasn't I-695. It's still officially MD 695.
Umm, yeah. I believe I knew that, Spui.