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User Content => Photos, Videos, and More => Topic started by: KEK Inc. on March 28, 2013, 08:08:35 PM

Title: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: KEK Inc. on March 28, 2013, 08:08:35 PM
There's a lot of Puerto Rico road signs on the web, but it's a bit harder to find some of the other territories like Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Isles.  Wikipedia shows the shields that they use, and they're at least using the same font.  I know that Puerto Rico follows our MUTCD pretty well -- in Spanish!

None of these photos are credited to me. 


Guam:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F9%2F95%2FMarine_Drive_Guam.jpg%2F800px-Marine_Drive_Guam.jpg&hash=e5d7d104a2786fb69ddfaeb3492ad5bfe32c9a90)


American Samoa:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fseaengineering.com%2FPortals%2F0%2FProjectPortfolio%2FProjectImages%2Flarge%2FSamoa%2520Highway%2520Shore%2520Protection_20080318_040137.JPG&hash=2da156624347806426148f9818ee2673ec3158cf)

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.staticflickr.com%2F2184%2F2093876852_87f360b3fb.jpg&hash=c15bb7c1a498fba71ac0cc44eb48cbe2953baeef)
Source (http://www.flickr.com/photos/28976116@N00/)

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.passcal.nmt.edu%2F%7Ebob%2Fpasscal%2Fslise%2Fimages%2F1757.jpg&hash=7725f7de81d479ab92e0876ed20b386c4bd95a1f)
Source (http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/~bob/passcal/slise/slise03.htm)

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.passcal.nmt.edu%2F%7Ebob%2Fpasscal%2Fslise%2Fimages%2F0021.jpg&hash=e74514fbb2e7d4b1f2220b91b9037863d9a001c2)
Source (http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/~bob/passcal/slise/slise03.htm)

U.S. Virgin Islands:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmw2.google.com%2Fmw-panoramio%2Fphotos%2Fmedium%2F5995827.jpg&hash=a9431bbd7ed7cbe6832cfe17e12bd04172de54a2)
Source (http://www.panoramio.com/photo/5995827)

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Flifemurmurs.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2Fkeepleftsign.jpg&hash=d5adbd1c538d382b4e635b566e52ec2f5cee38a2)
Source (http://lifemurmurs.wordpress.com/)

 
Title: Re: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: NE2 on March 28, 2013, 09:12:01 PM
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=7531.0
Title: Re: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: KEK Inc. on March 28, 2013, 11:38:30 PM
Nice try NE2, but that old thread isn't relevant to this.
Title: Re: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: NE2 on March 28, 2013, 11:43:43 PM
Sure it is. How are these not pictures of signs put up when Japan was an American territory?
http://www.kictec.co.jp/varieties-road-sign/us-military-sign/
http://blog-imgs-35.fc2.com/m/o/n/monpa2008/daigakunomon02.jpg
Title: Re: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: KEK Inc. on March 29, 2013, 04:59:26 AM
Japan was never an American territory...  Those signs may have been from when the allies occupied Japan after WWII.
Title: Re: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: english si on March 29, 2013, 09:09:37 AM
Quote from: KEK Inc. on March 29, 2013, 04:59:26 AMJapan was never an American territory...  Those signs may have been from when the allies occupied Japan after WWII.
That's what a territory is...

OK, Japan was a de facto one rather than de jure, but it wasn't a sovereign state while occupied.

de jure ones (eg Falklands, Puerto Rico, St Pierre et Miquelon) nowadays are with the consent of the governed, rather than kept occupied by force.
Title: Re: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: cpzilliacus on March 29, 2013, 09:51:10 AM
Quote from: english si on March 29, 2013, 09:09:37 AM
Quote from: KEK Inc. on March 29, 2013, 04:59:26 AMJapan was never an American territory...  Those signs may have been from when the allies occupied Japan after WWII.
That's what a territory is...

OK, Japan was a de facto one rather than de jure, but it wasn't a sovereign state while occupied.

de jure ones (eg Falklands, Puerto Rico, St Pierre et Miquelon) nowadays are with the consent of the governed, rather than kept occupied by force.

At one point, the United States had de facto control over all of Cuba (not just Guantanamo Bay), all of the Philippines, and, the U.S. sector of what is now Germany - and the U.S. sector of Berlin (I don't think the residents of the U.S. sector, or for that matter, the British and French sectors) wanted the U.S. to leave their part of the  city open to Soviet occupation.
Title: Re: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: cpzilliacus on March 29, 2013, 09:54:41 AM
Quote from: KEK Inc. on March 28, 2013, 08:08:35 PM
There's a lot of Puerto Rico road signs on the web, but it's a bit harder to find some of the other territories like Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Isles.

You forgot the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands)!  <smile>
Title: Re: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: oscar on March 29, 2013, 10:08:43 AM
I have one photo of road signs back when Hawaii was a territory (http://www.hawaiihighways.com/FAQs-page3.htm#old-route-shields).  These are from the temporary wartime route number system on Oahu (except for that, no signed route numbers in Hawaii until just before statehood).
Title: Re: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: Alps on March 29, 2013, 06:15:30 PM
Quote from: KEK Inc. on March 28, 2013, 08:08:35 PM

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.staticflickr.com%2F2184%2F2093876852_87f360b3fb.jpg&hash=c15bb7c1a498fba71ac0cc44eb48cbe2953baeef)
Source (http://www.flickr.com/photos/28976116@N00/)
 
They modeled that shield after a... never mind.
Title: Re: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: froggie on March 29, 2013, 06:57:54 PM
A few of my own Guam photos (http://www.ajfroggie.com/roadpics/guam/gu-other.htm)...
Title: Re: American Territory Road Pictures?
Post by: NE2 on March 29, 2013, 08:24:54 PM
Quote from: Steve on March 29, 2013, 06:15:30 PM
Quote from: KEK Inc. on March 28, 2013, 08:08:35 PM

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.staticflickr.com%2F2184%2F2093876852_87f360b3fb.jpg&hash=c15bb7c1a498fba71ac0cc44eb48cbe2953baeef)
Source (http://www.flickr.com/photos/28976116@N00/)
 
They modeled that shield after a... never mind.
Observatory? Shroom?