I'm so old that...

[JCinSummerfield]

A little game for those that have a few years of seniority on others.  Give us something to show us how old you are.  Here's mine:

I'm so old that I drove on I-296 when it was signed.

[oscar]

I saw Temporary I-15 signs on former US 395 north of Escondido CA.

[hotdogPi]

I'm so old that I remember when another thread with this concept existed.

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=10167.0

Two, actually:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=34207.0

[JayhawkCO]

I guess if we keep this specifically road related.

I remember stopping at a produce inspection stand between New Mexico and Arizona.
I clinched I-265(TN),I-164(IN), and the northern section of I-540(AR).
I clinched US78 between Memphis and Birmingham before there was an interstate.

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm so old that I used to live off US 27 in Michigan.

[bzakharin]

This is a tricky one because I didn't live in this country for the first 11 years of my life, but I do remember when New Jersey's speed limit was increased from 55 to 65 in 1997. Also when NJ Turnpike exit 6A didn't exist and instead there was an eastbound-only Florence exit that bypassed the toll plaza.

[tigerwings]

I'm so old that I used to live off US 25 in Michigan.

[hbelkins]

I remember the Kentucky Turnpike.

I remember seeing cutout route markers on Kentucky roads.

I remember when I-64 was not complete between Lexington and Frankfort, and Grayson and Ashland.

I remember when Tennessee exclusively used triangular markers for all state routes.

I remember when Kentucky used signs that did not feature reflective sheeting.

I remember when Kentucky used text-based exit signs on the Mountain Parkway instead of route markers.

[cwf1701]

I'm so old that I used to live off US 25 in Michigan.

And when Gratiot was signed as US-25, and when 8 Mile and Gratiot was the junction of US-25, M-102, and M-29.

[Rothman]

I'm so old I survived the traffic light queue (bring water) and the subsequent suicidal lane change for the old I-84 EB to I-91 NB "connection" in Hartford.  Multiple times.

I'm also so old I remember when an MA 15 shield was drawn on Mass Pike tickets at what is now the I-84/I-90 interchange.

[akotchi]

I am old enough to
-  remember seeing yellow Yield signs in the field
-  have ridden (not driven) through the Springfield Interchange in Virginia when I-95 was still signed through into DC
-  grow up in a neighborhood west of Lancaster PA where the main road in front of the neighborhood (Rohrerstown Rd.) was not a numbered state highway
-  remember when I-75 entered Tampa, FL (and rode through the I-4/I-75 interchange)

That's a start . . .

[wanderer2575]

I remember when metal drums were used for lane closure channelizing.

[Big John]

US 41 went in front of Lambeau Field.

[SectorZ]

I'm so old that I remember the eastern USA version of I-86 before it was in New York.

[CtrlAltDel]

I remember when I-75 in Georgia and Florida was four lanes with sequential exits.

[vdeane]

remember seeing yellow Yield signs in the field

This one was still around quite recently.

[Great Lakes Roads]

There wasn't a four-lane roadway between Indianapolis and Evansville without going out of your way!

US 31 between Indianapolis and South Bend was a traffic light hellhole in Hamilton County and Kokomo.

[Rothman]

I'm so old that I remember the eastern USA version of I-86 before it was in New York.

But not old enough to remember when it was I-84 before that?

[roadman65]

I'm old enough to remember Howard Johnson Restaurants as well as their original motor lodges with the orange roof lobby.

[1995hoo]

I remember when the Maryland House service plaza had no fast food and instead had a white-tablecloth sit-down restaurant with waiter service.

[Bobby5280]

A couple of examples:

• I remember when US-80 existed in Yuma, AZ

• I remember seeing vertical I-15E sign posts in San Bernardino while on our way to Norton Air Force Base to catch a flight to my Dad's next duty station in Japan. The airline was Flying Tigers.

[roadman65]

I remember when the Maryland House service plaza had no fast food and instead had a white-tablecloth sit-down restaurant with waiter service.

New Jersey had the same at their service areas. MacDonalds in Union, NJ on the GSP and in Brookdale near Clifton started the fast food there as an experiment to see how well it would go. Obviously it went well.

However Bobs Big Boy and Roy Rogers took over other plazas on NJ roads, thus the former had waiter service with ole Roy being the order and go part. Sadly Marriot sold the franchises and later Dunkin, Sparro, and Taco Bell's came in to make full food courts.

[roadman65]

I remember when Dunkin Donuts had sit down counters instead of order and go.  My hometown Clark, NJ had one even in the eighties, I would sit down and consume a doughnut and coffee before work served by a waitress behind the counter.

[LilianaUwU]

I remember when signage on Prince Edward Island was only in English. (That's why I started learning English in the first place.) To be fair, that was only 20 years ago, so definitely not as old as y'all.

[roadman65]

I remember when I-95 in Virginia only had exit numbers on the Richmond- Petersburg Turnpike that had their own 1-17 sequence ending at US 301 in Henrico County.

I-64 had none until the mid eighties except for three exits in Hampton that were 1-3 from the HRBT to Mercury Blvd.

New Jersey only used them on toll roads as I-78 received them in 198 except east of NJ 24 that was completed in 1977 after the campaign to install them. It just took NJDOT several years to redo the signs on preexisting I-78 west of Watchung. I-295 had them in Salem and Gloucester and later north of Bridgeport in stages from 1983 to well into the nineties. Although Hamilton Township near Trenton got them in the early eighties when NJDOT completed that section.

I-80 got them in the seventies and I-280 got them from opening day except in East Orange and Newark which had none even in 1990 for the Parkway and Clinton Street and left Exit 13 EB.