Highway signs that give insight to the past

[countysigns]

https://goo.gl/maps/s6LwukFvkiN2

This sign is on the Anthony Wayne Trail (OH-25) coming into downtown Toledo.  You can see the outline of one U.S. shield on the sign in the picture but if you drive by it, there are two U.S. shield outlines.  The outlines were US-24 and US-223.  US-24 was signed on the Trail until 1987 and used Monroe Street to head north to Telegraph Road, by way of Monroe, Collingwood and Detroit.  US-223 was replaced by OH-51 in 1987.

[kurumi]

I'm hoping against hope that when the viaduct is replaced, the US 99 sign will be relocated instead of scrapped.

[jakeroot]

This one is pretty obvious:


US 99 shield at 1st & Columbia by SounderBruce, on Flickr

How that sign has escaped replacement for the last 45 years is beyond me. That has to be the best of the best of the best of signs.

Something tells me there's some roadgeek SDOT employees who hold just enough power at City Hall to keep the sign from coming down.

I'm hoping against hope that when the viaduct is replaced, the US 99 sign will be relocated instead of scrapped.

As highly unlikely as that sounds, I think there's a small tiny basically nonexistent chance it could end up at the north tunnel portal. Maybe if we all petition SDOT/WSDOT?

[hbelkins]

How about signs that stay up even after the road is removed?

[Pete from Boston]

How about signs that stay up even after the road is removed?

Isn't there a thread specifically on that?

[Kacie Jane]

This one is pretty obvious:


US 99 shield at 1st & Columbia by SounderBruce, on Flickr

How that sign has escaped replacement for the last 45 years is beyond me. That has to be the best of the best of the best of signs.

Something tells me there's some roadgeek SDOT employees who hold just enough power at City Hall to keep the sign from coming down.

I'm hoping against hope that when the viaduct is replaced, the US 99 sign will be relocated instead of scrapped.

As highly unlikely as that sounds, I think there's a small tiny basically nonexistent chance it could end up at the north tunnel portal. Maybe if we all petition SDOT/WSDOT?

It would probably be better suited for MOHAI or another museum.  Once the viaduct comes down, I'm not sure I'd really want to see that sign still in service (as great as it is), but I definitely wouldn't want to see it destroyed either.

[PHLBOS]

What was once part of PA 291 near PHL prior to it being relocated onto Bartram Ave. (on the other side of I-95).  The relocation was due to the extension of Runway 17-35.

[froggie]

This sign is at the eastern terminus of MN 97 north of Stillwater, MN. The age of the sign and the awkward placement of the I-35 shield make me wonder if there used to be another shield alongside the I-35 one, although I'm not sure what it could have been; US 8 maybe, before that route was decommissioned south of Forest Lake?

Did you check the back of the sign to see what the age of it is?  I highly doubt it's 35 years old, in which case I highly doubt it's a US 8 shield that went missing...1981 is the year US 8 was truncated to Forest Lake.

It's also hard to tell if that I-35 shield is an overlay or not...certainly can't tell from your photo.  What little I can glean off of GMSV suggests the answer is no.  In which case this is simply a contractor error.

[Quillz]

Back when US-395 actually went to San Bernardino and US-6 (now CA-14) actually went to downtown LA...

[RoadWarrior56]

Back in '97, I drove northbound CA 86 from El Centro to Indio in southern California.  The control city mileage on almost all signs was Los Angeles.  That would had made sense more than 30 years earlier than that when that roadway was US 99.  I think much of that roadway has been relocated onto new alignment since.  I have no idea if Los Angeles is still the control city.

[Thunderbyrd316]

Back in '97, I drove northbound CA 86 from El Centro to Indio in southern California.  The control city mileage on almost all signs was Los Angeles.  That would had made sense more than 30 years earlier than that when that roadway was US 99.  I think much of that roadway has been relocated onto new alignment since.  I have no idea if Los Angeles is still the control city.

According to Google Street View (accessed via ClassyGMap) signs on California 86 still reference Los Angeles as far south as El Centro. (Note that some images are dated 2012.)

[hbelkins]

Isn't there a thread specifically on that?

I thought there was, but I couldn't find it.

Where are these located?

The KY 169 sign was on the old alignment at the US 68 intersection between Lexington and Wilmore. KY 169 was realigned there when US 68 was four-laned.

The US 460 signs were in Menifee County, Ky., and were used for a temporary relocation of KY 77 when US 460 was being reconstructed in that area.

The 460 signs have been removed since the photo was taken. I'm not sure about the KY 169 sign, as I haven't been down that way in several years.

[noelbotevera]

Isn't there a thread specifically on that?

I thought there was, but I couldn't find it.

Here.

[hbelkins]

Isn't there a thread specifically on that?

I thought there was, but I couldn't find it.

Here.

Yep, and I even made reference to the two photos I posted.

[bing101]

http://www.route50.com/sign_battle_saga.htm

See this Link US-50 greenout revealed in Oakland on Highway 580.

http://socalregion.com/wp-content/uploads/Picture-725.jpg

Also this greenout of I-15 in Barstow.