Airport Signage

[agentsteel53]

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This seemed to be the last one, and it's located at the exit of the airport parking and rental car lots (although now, there's a huge multi-story rental garage). Raleigh Durham International Airport uses a similar gray background scheme, but without the demountable copy.

well, I certainly have a physiological condition which is inappropriate for the office environment.

[Alps]

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This seemed to be the last one, and it's located at the exit of the airport parking and rental car lots (although now, there's a huge multi-story rental garage). Raleigh Durham International Airport uses a similar gray background scheme, but without the demountable copy.

well, I certainly have a physiological condition which is inappropriate for the office environment.

You should shower more often.

[bulkyorled]

Heres a slightly unusual one at the Burbank Airport (california), there's a couple of these in metric for some reason. They look like they've been there for a while but I never noticed them for some reason but I suppose it's easy to miss, if anyone is from around here you'd know there's pretty much no reason to go down Vanowen St...

[agentsteel53]

I wonder when that dates from.  1970s?

also... damn Helvetica.  Who ever decided that, of all fonts, was appropriate to use on traffic signage?

[bulkyorled]

I wonder when that dates from.  1970s?

I was thinking the same, probably when we dipped in the metric system. Other than freeway signs that have both systems here, that's the only other sign I've ever seen with metric I think...

[NE2]

It was only named after Bob Hope in 2003.

I'm sure one of our resident anal metric fans will tell you that the One True Way to write that distance is 500 m.

[bulkyorled]

Yea I was thinking that it was probably in the mid 00s since they redid the train station there in 2004 or 2005 a bit. But the sign looked aged so I went with 70s haha

[roadman65]

What interests me is (I have no photo yet) is at Newark Airport in New Jersey is the fact leaving the facility there was once a time (it still maybe as we speak) when I-95 Southbound and the NJ Turnpike Southbound were directed by two different roadways.  As we all know, I-95 and the NJ Turnpike are the same road here.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Newark,+NJ&hl=en&ll=40.692971,-74.183593&spn=0.0164,0.042272&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=35.082817,86.572266&oq=newark&hnear=Newark,+Essex,+New+Jersey&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=40.693115,-74.183248&panoid=cnAAoTQvNToYpWXOlAWCVw&cbp=12,225,,0,0

Both directions of I-95 are posted to the right and the SB Turnpike is via US 1& 9 to the left, and the NB NJT is to the right with I-95.

[roadman65]

Here is a video showing all signage entering MCO in Orlando, FL.  Like someone here did point out, some places have too many airlines to read on assemblies.  This is one of those places as you will see.

<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/18QW4oixKvw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[US12]

Driving by PHX in one of their maintenance parking lots, there was brand new overhead guide signs get unloaded off 2 flat bed's.

[Brian556]

D/FW Airport originally had all brown guide signage. they now have all blue. I think these should have the cities on them like the next set of overheads, which are TxDot's.


These are at Love Field in Dallas. Notice the odd U-TURN PERMITTED symbol sign.

[OCGuy81]

SNA (John Wayne/Orange County Airport) has all their signage in italics.  Apologies for the bad Google Map link.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=33.676685,-117.862648&spn=0.005045,0.010568&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=33.6766,-117.8627&panoid=pHjESWdqUdXkQyWjWV5ExA&cbp=12,186.22,,0,-29.51

[florida]

Here is a video showing all signage entering MCO in Orlando, FL.  Like someone here did point out, some places have too many airlines to read on assemblies.  This is one of those places as you will see.

<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/18QW4oixKvw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

But GOAA is pretty consistent with the FL 436 cut-outs.

[KEK Inc.]

Portland Airport's older signs can be seen in the background.  Not really sure what font it was, but it was a blue borderless sign. 

Here's another one.


More current Clearview sign (installed 2008ish). 

[formulanone]

LAX has some signage off Sepulveda which is in what appears to be Franklin Gothic.

[agentsteel53]

that photo somehow looks like it is a screen shot from a video game. 

and yes, I have seen those signs in person.  they need to go under the "worst of road signs".

[formulanone]

Little Rock, Arkansas had only one button copy sign left, from what I could see.